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,…
5 Reasons You Won’t Get Selected In Field Hockey
Have you ever felt that you have been overlooked or missed out on selection which then affected your confidence? In the video below I share 5 reasons why you won’t get selected in field hockey and what you can do about it (or you can just read below if you prefer). It can be so frustrating…
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…
Field Hockey Skills – How To Do An Overhead
Field Hockey Skills – How To Do An Overhead (Or Aerial) What is an advanced skill that a defender can use and one of the best ways to get out of a high pressured situation (like a full press)? Use an overhead. “If you can’t go through, go over” Some of the best and most effective attacks…
10 Key Traits That Top Field Hockey Players Have
“No-one plans to be average but those who don’t plan will end up being average” There is so much more to hockey than having good hockey skills and just turning up for training and games… When you look at top hockey players, one thing I can tell you is they didn’t get there by luck…
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…
Field Hockey Olympic Medalist Shares Secrets To Success
I always tell people that one of the best ways to learn is by listening to those who have reached the top of their game and achieved the things that you dream about. Next, it is about following that advice and taking action on what they say. So, I decided to do an exclusive video…
Top 10 Field Hockey Skills To Master
I’m often asked which field hockey skills players should focus on but it often depends on a number of factors such as your current level, your position, your strengths, weaknesses, etc. However, I decided to come up with a list of the top 10 field hockey skills that I think are most useful for the majority of modern…
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…
