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5 Best Hockey Supplements Every Athlete Should Take

"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.

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Hockey Leg Workout For Strength & Muscle

"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!"

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Hockey Workouts For Speed: How To Skate Faster Like NHL Players

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.

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World Champions 2018!

Team Finland beat USA last night and won gold at the U18 World Championships.

So join me in congratulating my boys, goalie Jere Huhtamaa and forward Lenni Killinen, as well as the entire Finnish U18 National Team for bringing gold back home after last year's final defeat against the US.

That makes it two gold medals for Finland in the last three U18 tournaments. Not too shabby...

Off-Ice Hockey Training for Unstoppable Strength and Speed

If you are looking for off-ice hockey training advice online, I have good and bad news for you.

Let's start with the bad news:

Much of the information you'll find on off-ice hockey training via a quick Google search is published by "trainers" with zero expertise in training athletes.

I've seen too many websites and YouTube/Instagram channels where people's idea of dryland training consists of stickhandling a tennis ball while balancing on a friggin' BOSU ball.

Or performing 20-rep sets of box jumps.

Or doing silly ladder drills for "quick feet".

That nonsense has got nothing to do with improving athletic performance when the goal is to build a bigger, stronger, faster and less injury-prone hockey player.

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How to Get Bigger, Stronger and Faster for Ice Hockey

How can off-ice hockey training help boost your on-ice performance?

It's a question I hear all the time.

In this hockey training guide you'll discover how to add pounds to the bar, muscle to your frame, and improve your skating speed and power with dryland training techniques.

I have successfully used these same off-ice training methods and principles with hundreds of junior, D1 college and pro hockey players

Check out the video below to see some of them going after it in their off-season training.

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Mass Gainers, Hockey Books and Goalie Training

That time of the month again.

Got some hot and steamy Q&A action in store for ya.

Hit it, maestro…

QUESTION: I need to gain weight to compete against bigger, stronger guys. What do you think of mass gainers after training?

YUNUS: Overpriced and overhyped stuff.

I’d rather mix whey protein powder with chocolate milk. Cheaper, tastier and you get all the proteins + carbs you need in a post-workout shake.

QUESTION: Favorite non-training related hockey books?

YUNUS: I have got a few:

Playing With Fire by Theoren Fleury

The Best Seat in the House by Jamie McLennan

Crossing the Line by Derek Sanderson and

This is Russia: Life in the KHL by Bernd Brückler

QUESTION: Do you have any goalie training programs?

YUNUS: All my stuff works for goalies and none of my goalies train differently off the ice compared to forwards or defenders.

Strength is strength. Speed is speed.

The principles and methods for packing muscle on a guy or making him faster apply regardless of the position you play on the ice.

Goalie or not, if you want to enter this hockey season stronger than you’ve ever been, check out:

NextLevelHockeyTraining.com

Best,

YB

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