"What are the best hockey supplements I should take??"

It's ALWAYS the skinny weaklings who ask me this question.

All 17 years of age, these guys obsess over supplements.

Why?

Because they have ZERO knowledge of how to train and eat for strength or muscle mass.

They think the world is collectively hiding a magic potion behind its back, and if only they could get their hands on some of that magic, they would gain 20 pounds of muscle overnight while skating around their opponents like Connor McDavid.

I'm now going to share a fact that's going to rock your world.

Ready?

Some of the best hockey players on the planet don't take any supplements.

That's right.

No protein shakes. No mass gainers. No pre-workouts. Not even creatine.

How do I know this?

Because I work with many of those players.

Yet, my athletes are known for packing on strength and muscle, fast.

"When my legs are stronger, I feel better on the ice and can skate faster."

I hear this comment from the athletes I work with ALL the time.

Stronger legs = better hockey performance.

No matter your level of play – NHL, college, junior, beer league, or something in between – beefing up your quads, glutes, and hamstrings translates to more goals, more points, and more success:

You take three explosive strides and leave your man staring at your taillights as you slingshot away on a breakaway. Forehand, backhand, top shelf, red light.

You pin the other guy against the boards in your own zone, the puck squirts loose, and you take two quick steps to pick up the change for an odd-man rush.

You park your thick hockey butt in front of the goalie, sit deep, and nobody can push you around while you deflect a snapshot from the blue line into the back of the net.

As my pro client Zach Redmond (133 NHL games, 2022 DEL Defenseman of the Year) once pointed out:

"Legs are money!"

Most hockey speed workouts you find online are garbage.

They're written by armchair experts who have never made a single elite (D1 or professional) athlete faster.

This isn't one of those articles.

Everything you read over the next few minutes has been time-tested and proven to work.

These methods have produced dozens of pro hockey players, D1 athletes, and even World Champions.

Today is the day:

My new book Strength Training for Ice Hockey is up for grabs.

FYI, this isn’t a rehashed compilation of my previous articles… and I’m not serving you some lukewarm lifting leftovers from yesteryear.

Strength Training for Ice Hockey includes the most up-to-date training tips, tactics and methods I use to get hockey players strong and jacked. It took me 2.5 years to research, organize, tweak, write and edit the whole shebang.

And the result is the most practical book on off-ice training EVER published. Strength Training for Ice Hockey spans 275 pages and includes almost 300 references to relevant scientific studies.

Despite this fact, you don’t need a PhD in Exercise Science to grasp what I share with you inside. The tone of this book is informal and conversational, yet highly informational. So ANYONE can absorb the key points, implement the advice and dominate the weight room. 

I’m just going to list the most important details about this offer in bullet points to save you time:

Heads up:

It's kinda like Rambo 2... only more violent.

Quick announcement:

My new book The Hockey Player's Guide to Peak Performance: Volume 1 is out.

It's a compilation of my best, most popular and most lesson-dense articles on physically preparing hockey players for the demands of today's fast-paced game.

The book is divided into four main chapters. Main topics include:

* Building strength and muscle

* Speed training

* Developing young athletes

* And so much more...

The book contains over 25 articles and 200+ pages of timeless training advice.

It explains pretty much everything you would ever need to know to create stronger, faster and more injury-resistant hockey players.

And, it's SUPER affordable.

Here's where to get it:

https://Next-Level-Athletics.com/Performance

Yunus Barisik

In case you missed it, I was interviewed by DK Pittsburgh Sports the other week.

As part of their in-depth coverage of the Pittsburgh Penguins, they wanted to know how Pens prospect Kasper Björkqvist (who has been training with me for the past five years) was able to smash the club's strength and conditioning records at age 21.

So, I spilled the beans on his dryland training methods throughout his junior and college years.

These are just some of the things we covered in the interview:

* The big jump Kasper experienced in the juniors thanks to off-ice training

* The 3 factors behind his exceptional fitness

* The 4 exercise categories that translate into more explosive skating

* How Kasper's training changed this summer after his shoulder surgery

* How he was able to build stronger legs than ever despite undergoing shoulder rehab

* How he increased his power clean loads from 110 to 275 pounds

* And much more...

Here's the link to the interview again.

Yunus Barisik

P.S. Looking for a training program to achieve exceptional fitness?

Then check this out:

https://NextLevelHockeyTraining.com