With high school captain’s practice just beginning and collegiate hockey well under way, this is an ideal time to discuss the "Do these" of hockey training to provide you with the best opportunity to create speed, strength, power and endurance while ensuring the orthopedic health of your joints, tendons and muscles. The following four squat variations are the difference between injury and injury-free. It doesn’t matter how many pounds you can front squat, back squat or hack squat — training for sport while in-season is all about durability, fast-twitch activation, deceleration and muscle endurance.
DO THESE: BOX SQUATS