I hope you enjoyed the weekend. I’m still getting caught up after a 5-day stint in San Diego for ART Spine, 4 days of being hurricaned in, 5 days of working at the USA Women’s National Hockey Team’s Pre-4-Nations Camp (they won the championship in Finland this past weekend with a 3-0 victory over Canada!), and most recently, hosting a 2-day PRI Seminar at Endeavor this past weekend.
PRI was a lot of fun, and if you’re in the training or rehabilitation industries and haven’t taken a course yet, I’d strongly encourage you to look into it. Sarah Cahill (who is an AWESOME S&C Coach at Northeastern, as well as with the US Women’s National Hockey Team) and a significant chunk of Mike Boyle’s Staff at MBSC (Kevin Carr, Brendon Rearick, Ana Tocco, Jill Zeller, and Tim Morrill) all crashed at my place in Philly (standing room only). It was great to catch up with all of them and bounce ideas back and forth over the weekend. We also had several current and former Cressey Performance interns/coaches make their way down, and essentially my entire local referral network attended. I’m really looking forward to hosting their Pelvis Restoration Course April 6-7 next year.
Needless to say, I haven’t had as much time to sit down and write as usual. A couple weeks ago, however, I had an opportunity to do an interview for a freelance writer named Jeff Angus, who runs a website titled “Angus Certified”. He posted the first part of the interview this morning, which you can access here: An Interview with Hockey Trainer Kevin Neeld
The second part of the interview will be up later in the week. In the meantime, check this out and let know if you have any comments/questions by posting them below!
To your success,
Kevin Neeld
P.S. If you want to maximize the transfer of your off-ice training to on-ice performance, you’ll want to follow a specific hockey training system designed to do just that.
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Hey Kevin — Great interview with some great info to reflect on. I am particularly interested in the list of myths as I see those kinds of ideas repeated around internet a lot.
Just one point — you’re not a fan of Russian Twists and Supermans, Crunches… Can you tell me why those exercises are inadequate and what exercises should replace them? I’ve started using a lot more cable resisted twisting and medicine ball exercises and am noticing a real impact in my shooting power. Your thoughts much appreciated.
Kevin, great meeting and talking with you in San Diego. Found a couple of PRI courses in Illinois not too far from me that I’m going to do this winter/spring. Pretty pumped to dig into it. Keep up the great work man. Hopefully we’ll run into eachother again.
Hi Fred, Thank you for the kind words. Those exercises are all based on a misguided paradigm that the core musculature’s primary responsible is to drive local movement. It’s fairly well established and accepted at this point that the core’s primary functions are to provide spinal stabilization, provide a stable platform for extremity (arm and leg) movement, and transfer force between the lower and upper body. I dedicated an entire chapter in my book Ultimate Hockey Training to this very topic, and provide a ton of suitable substitute exercises with progressions and regressions. Briefly, though, I’d rather have an athlete do front plank, side plank, and glute bridge variations to train the core than sit-ups, supermans, Russian Twists, etc.
Nick-Likewise. Let me know what you think of the PRI stuff when you dig into it. I think people do better with that information with they go in with an open mind and a “how can I apply this in my sitting” attitude, opposed to a “can I apply this in my setting” attitude. We’re hosting PRI’s Pelvis Restoration in April and likely their Postural Respiration course next Fall if you want to come by.