10 Reasons Every Field Hockey Player Needs To Be Doing Strength Training
If you are field hockey player and want to be a step ahead, have been struggling with your hockey fitness, speed or you keep getting little injury niggles then you need to read this entire article. The improvement in performance in field hockey has drastically sky rocketed in the last few years thanks to strength…
5 ways to be a FASTER field hockey player
Speed And Agility For Field Hockey Nowadays improvements in speed and agility could make a huge difference on the hockey field whether you are a field player or a goalkeeper… The pace of the game has increased massively over the last few years and regardless of your skill, if you are not quick enough you could be…
3 plyometric exercises for field hockey power on the pitch
How would you like to be the hockey player who dominates on the pitch, always gets to the ball first, has a big presence and makes an impact in games? Let’s take a look at how field hockey power training can help you! Power is an important part of fitness as a hockey player but there is an art to…
5 things I wish I knew when I was a teenage field hockey player
Like many people, I sometimes wish that I could turn back time and re-live my younger hockey days with the same passion I had then, but with more effective strategies using the knowledge and experience that I have now, 15 years later. Below are some of the most important things which I have learn’t but…
Train your posterior to kick butt on the hockey field!
Are you doing any form of strength or resistance training that is going to help your hockey? Anyone over the age of 12 years, especially adolescents should be doing some form of resistance training (whether they play sport or not) and there are many benefits to doing this which I have already written about here. Contrary…
Why field hockey players MUST do strength training?
There is no doubt that field hockey fitness is vital to your success as a player. People often ask me for advice on how to get fitter and stronger for hockey but are generally concerned with the effectiveness and the risk of injury. My reply is that if you are a field hockey player and you…
