This package includes the following:

• Complete Conditioning for Hockey ebook
• Online continuing education exam

Hockey players are stronger, quicker, and more agile than ever before. To compete and win in today’s game requires superior stamina and strength. Complete Conditioning for Hockey offers a year-round training plan to build stamina and strength in your clients. Author Ryan van Asten, one of the game’s leading strength and conditioning coaches, shares the same approach he’s used with top athletes and teams at the professional and national levels—including NHL Stanley Cup winners, Canada’s Olympic gold medal–winning women’s hockey team, and multiple world championship teams. Complete Conditioning for Hockey covers every aspect of physical preparation, including these:

• Movement optimization
• Endurance and stamina
• Functional strength and power
• Acceleration and speed
• Change of direction and reactivity
• Recovery and injury risk reduction

Throughout, you’ll find more than 145 exercises, each with progressions and variations, to optimize training and continue your clients’ development season after season. The position-specific guidelines will help to personalize training, and the specific information and exercises for the off-season, preseason, in-season, and postseason will ensure optimal peaking and recovery.

Complete Conditioning for Hockey also features a detailed analysis of player movement and conditioning needs, taking the process of physical preparation for hockey to a whole new level. After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the physical demands of the sport for all players.
• Use specific assessment techniques to assess player readiness.
• Select appropriate workouts for developing energy systems.
• Determine loading strategies for fundamental movements.
• Implement power training specific to hockey players.
• Plan speed and agility workouts.
• Describe change of direction and reactivity.
• Select appropriate recovery methods.
• Discuss technologies commonly used for monitoring athletes.
• Prepare an effective yearly program.
• Plan a quality postseason training cycle to provide adequate recovery after the season.
• Organize an effective preseason plan to prepare for the demands of hockey.
• Execute an in-season program to keep athletes playing at a high level.

Audience

Personal trainers, strength and conditioning professionals, athletic trainers, and other certified fitness professionals who work with hockey players.

Chapter 1. Physical Demands of Ice Hockey
Chapter 2. Assessing and Monitoring Hockey Fitness and Movement
Chapter 3. Optimizing Movement Capacity
Chapter 4. Energy Systems Development
Chapter 5. Systemic Strengthening
Chapter 6. Training for Functional Power
Chapter 7. Training for Acceleration and Speed
Chapter 8. Change of Direction and Reactivity
Chapter 9. Recovery and Reducing Injury Risk
Chapter 10. Technological Advances
Chapter 11. Yearly Training Plan and Program Development
Chapter 12. Postseason Training
Chapter 13. Off-Season Training
Chapter 14. Preseason Training
Chapter 15. In-Season Training

Ryan van Asten is the director of sports performance for the Calgary Flames and has been the head strength and conditioning coach for the organization for the past seven years.

Prior to joining the Flames, van Asten spent three seasons as the head strength and conditioning coach of the Los Angeles Kings, winning Stanley Cups in 2012 and 2014. He was also the head strength and conditioning coach and coordinator for Hockey Canada and the Canadian Sport Centre–Calgary, where he was part of the 2010 Olympic gold medal–winning women's hockey team. In addition, van Asten was fortunate to be a part of three world championship teams and 10 World Cup winners in hockey and luge.

At the University of Calgary van Asten earned a master of science degree in exercise physiology. He also holds a bachelor of science degree in life sciences and a bachelor of physical and health education degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He holds the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).