For the first few weeks of your off-season training program, you have been performing your jumping exercises with a hold in between jumps.

Now it’s time to take your power training to the next level.

Once your muscles and joints have become used to absorbing the force of the jumps, you will start performing the stair-based exercises without holding in between each jump.

As soon as you land, you will immediately jump up again - focusing on making the transition between the jumps as quick as possible and minimize the amount of time spent on each stair.

It is still extremely important to land as quiet as possible and to maintain a low balanced position with your head and chest up.

You may not be able to jump as many stairs in this ‘without hold’ variation initially (especially with the single-leg jumps).

But soon you will be able to produce even more power than you were able to produce in the ‘with hold’ variation.

The 3 keys to jumping with power and speed:

1) Get Low
2) Quick Transition
3) Chest Up

Take your time learning and mastering these new jumping variations and take your power (and hockey-specific speed) to a whole new level.

Until next time,

Kim