Workout Philosophy
The kids are at the rink Sunday, Monday and Tuesday’s. With the nature of this schedule, we can’t run them through a ‘workout’ every day. Well, we could… But I’m not gonna do it…
If you’re a parent and you’re sending your kid off to ‘glorified babysitting’ instead of an intentionally designed camp, that’s on you.
If your kids are beat down and tired after a week of their local camp, you’ve probably sent them to the wrong one.
Workouts don’t ‘fill time’ down here.
Instead, we’ve structured a high-low-high for our players.
Sundays and Tuesdays are ‘High Days’. We sprint and workout with the intensity cranked.
Mondays we spend more time in the classroom and when we ‘train’ we do some version of yoga, active recovery, or lower-intensity cardio work.
RPR is incorporated every day inside the warmup.
Off-Ice Value Add
I introduced players to finding their baseline BOLT score and taught one version of a breath hold to improve it. Go down the rabbit hole on Patrick if this is your first time seeing his work:
Playing at Zero or Nose to Nose:
First learned about this concept from Jack Han. Since that intro, I’ve tried to put my own spin on it:
Getting off the wall, turning into the defender angling you, which for players just learning the concept seems counterintuitive.
Classroom Discussion- Influence
As 4 players out of the 20 in our camp have already walked in with these hats on, I brought it up for discussion as a group because one innocent kid rarely on TikTok and other socials asked, “Why does everyone wear that hat?”
One more idea we talked around:
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