Healthy Hockey Hips

Imagine this… It’s the playoffs and for the first time all season, your hips are pain free, strong, and powerful. You’ve made it through the season to this point with your hips being just okay (or maybe worse than that). Imagine the level you could hit in just a few weeks by putting that pain or weakness on the back burner. At the highest levels, there’s still players that don’t perform real warm ups even though they know they’re important. I can confidently say that even if they can get by with that now, eventually that catches up to them. Then, there’s other players that know they want to do something, but aren’t sure what to do. They either

1. Perform the same movements with no progression. Just like any compound movement, there needs to be progressive overload by changes in exercises, volume, intensity, tempo, range of motion, or a combination of multiple things.
2. Perform certain movements on inappropriate days, leaving them sore or fatigued for important games. Soreness and fatigue obviously has physical downsides, but the mental component of not feeling 100% confident in your body going into a game may interfere even more. Correct exercises need to be considered in the correct volumes, in the correct sequences, on the correct days. That is a recipe for success.
3. Do too little because they’re afraid of getting sore or fatigued for the important games. Unfortunately, these players end up making no progress because they’re not doing enough volume or intensity to make a real adaptation.
4. Do too much because they know all the correct exercises but have anxiety about doing too little, so they jam it all in every day, spending 30-60 minutes just to prepare their body. That’s a huge chunk of time that takes away from the ice, training, and your recovery. Do any of these sound like an experience you’ve dealt with? That’s why I created the Healthy Hockey Hips program. 6-weeks of progressive mobility, stability, strength, and power work that is meant for any player of any age and level. This 6 day (~20-minutes per day) per week program includes 3 different “styles” of days:
5. Mobility and short-lever hip strength
6. Long-lever or eccentric hip strength, core, and long-duration stretching
7. Long duration stretching With 90% of this program being able to be done from home. All you need is some space, a few bands, and consistency.