Coaches Corner
KGB Vol 11: Preventing illness in a team setting
Maybe it’s just me, but it always seemed like the stretch of hockey from January through February felt the most challenging. These are the “hard yards” of the hockey season. This is the time of year when the weather can be unforgiving, you wake up in the dark and often get home in the dark. […]
KGB Vol 9: Fear & Concern; Two very different emotions on the way back from an injury
“Rub some dirt on it.” This seems to be one of the all-time great sports cliches. The phrase really is just a metaphor for the fact that toughness is a part of all sports whether it be mental, physical or both. There is, however, a legitimate performance concern when fear creeps into the mind of […]
KGB Vol 8: Is your resiliency like a gas tank?
For many of us this is an exciting but difficult time of year. Maybe you are in tryouts and striving for the next level, or you have already made the team and now you are trying to see how you can fit in and contribute. From a coaching perspective, there are probably some familiar faces […]
KGB Vol 7: If you dont know, now you know – Blood Flow Restriction Training
Let me introduce you to one of my “secret weapons” of athletic performance: Blood Flow Restriction training (BFR). It is not new, but it is certainly making its way into every sports team, every progressive injury rehab clinic, and every results-driven gym in the world. Take a quick tour on PubMed with “blood flow restriction” […]
THOR: BFR w/ Sean
Gallagher Performance Interview As always, it was great to get a chance to catch up with Sean, and chat rehab and performance. Sean has incorporated Personalized Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) into his practice for over a year. We sat down for an old-school phone conversation to unpack what his experience has been since adding BFR […]
KGB VOL 6: “Health is wealth.”
It’s a cliché, but it’s absolutely true. Wealth is something that has many layers to it and it’s something I am most certainly not qualified to speak upon, so take this analogy for what it’s worth. The pursuit of financial freedom requires a daily grind that puts money in your pocket regularly. The long game […]
Isometrics are essential for hockey players: A simple solution to a complicated injury
I could say that I owe a lot to the game of hockey. It gave me the ability to travel and meet amazing people. I competed with incredible athletes and had the luxury of celebrating victory as well as mourning defeat. Hockey in a sense introduced me to my wife and is one of the […]
KGB Vol 4: Recovery… MASTER THE BASICS
“Recover to win” they tell you. Much like nutrition, the world of sport recovery is difficult to navigate. There are endless gadgets, sketchy information sources and recovery gurus always at your disposal. Like most problems, the solutions are likely somewhere in the middle of all this chaos. The 10,000 ft view: Recovery = REPEATABLE HIGH […]
Updated analysis of changes in locomotor activities across periods in an international ice hockey game
Brocherie F, Girard O, Millet GP; Biol Sport. 2018; 35(3):261–267 How can we use data like this to our advantage? By understanding the demands of the game we can apply knowledge through the lens of both the rehab and conditioning side of performance. While it is true that hockey is a very fast game, we […]
KGB Vol 3: The most powerful 2 word combo in coaching…NOTICE & NAME
Inspiring change in yourself or others is difficult. Our natural tendency is to blame others and only those of us who chose to look inward with positive intent will be able to objectively assess a situation and come out on the other side with something actionable to either stay the course or make a change […]