Build Explosiveness For Field Hockey (The Injury-Free Way)
All hockey players want to be powerful and explosive to get to the ball first and make an impact so in this post I will show you just one way you can do this, the safe way. To build power you first need to develop your strength, ideally through a weight training program. Then you can move onto…
Overcoming Injury In Sport – Is It Such A Bad Thing?
Getting injured is devastating and frustrating… But maybe it can be a good thing? Even if it doesn’t seem that way. I have a lot of experience of being injured and have struggled with many different injuries throughout my years of playing sport. Everything from several shoulder dislocations, shin splints, broken thumb, torn ankle ligaments, hamstring strain, compartment syndrome,…
6 Ways Hockey Players Can Stay Fit Over Xmas
Xmas is most people’s favourite part of the year. The festive period is a time to spend with family and friends away from the grind of everyday life. Most people set any form of fitness aside during the holidays because they think they don’t have enough time. But I am here to tell you that you can…
How Hockey Player Sophie Barnwell Overcame Her Shin Splints Injury
Injury is something that no-one wants to face. It can be annoying, frustrating and it can drive you crazy, especially if you can’t fix the root cause of the problem and it keeps coming back. Shin splints in one of the common hockey injuries that hockey players face, especially teenagers who are growing at an extraordinary rate.…
7 Signs That It’s The Field Hockey Pre-Season!
“Nothing will work unless you do” – John Wooden No matter how much fitness training you have done in the off-season, there’s not a lot that can truly prepare your body for a field hockey pre-season! Hockey demands more of your muscles than almost any non-specific fitness. Therefore, in order to make pre-season as painless as possible,…
Top 20 Field Hockey Lessons To Learn
A lot of hockey players just turn up to training and games and don’t give a lot of thought to how they can get more out of their hockey and reach levels they probably haven’t even imagined. I setup the Hockey Performance Academy (HPA) to help sports people, specifically hockey players to realise that there…
Anna Flanagan Australian Hockey Star Reveals Her Secrets To Success
It was very interesting interviewing Hockeyroo Anna Flanagan, one of the best and most popular field hockey players in the world, commonly known as Flanno by her team mates. Two of the key takeaways for me after talking to the Australian Hockey Player comes from some of the things that I am constantly teaching: 1. Setbacks and injury have helped Anna to…
Hockey players should train their core, not their abs! [video demo included]
Field Hockey Core Training Are you still doing situp’s as a way of improving your core? When I talk about being fit for hockey, unlike a lot of hockey players I don’t just mean the ability to run for 70 minutes. Hockey fitness is also about being strong, fast, agile, powerful, core strength, having mobility & flexibility, recovering quickly in order…
5 Common Field Hockey Injuries & Reducing Your Risk Of Injury
5 Common Field Hockey Injuries & How To Reduce Your Risk Of Injury Hockey players LOVE playing hockey. Most people play hockey for the sheer enjoyment and love of the sport. So, when you take the privilege of playing hockey away from hockey players, most don’t know what to do with themselves while they are…
6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Run 5km’s For Field Hockey Fitness
When it comes to field hockey fitness – have you ever thought something along the lines of: “I need to get fitter as a hockey player” I hear this kind of statement a lot, so if you have ever thought or said this yourself then my first question to you is, what are you actually…
