The truth is that most girls hockey players don’t shoot very hard. While building strength in your legs and upper body will help, the most effective way to increase your shooting strength is to increase your core strength and stability with simple core exercises like the ones in the video below.

Start with 2 sets of 10 for each of the throwing exercises and 2 sets of 30 seconds for each of the stability exercises and your shooting strength will improve.

It doesn’t matter how many push-ups you can do, or how many thousands of pucks you shoot this summer…

==> If your core is weak, your shot will be weak.

Don’t let a “jello-like” core be what holds you and your shot from getting to the next level.

To dramatically increase the strength and speed of your shot and your game this summer, get started with the Total Female Hockey Complete Training System today.

Shoot Hard. Dream BIG.

~ Coach Kim

PS - There are only 12 weeks left until September. That’s plenty of time to take your shot and game through the roof - if you are using a Training System that has helped hundreds of players go from good to great. The only thing keeping you from getting to the next level is your willingness to work hard and follow the plan. What are you waiting for?

So here’s the scoop. I want you to click on the link below to watch this 3 minute video of me doing the training that helped me make my hockey dreams a reality at the park across the street from where I grew up. But before you do, I have 1 BIG promise to make to you beforehand.Every player who follows the Advanced Strength Training program in the Total Female Hockey Complete Training System to the letter is going to be able to do at least 1 FULL CHIN-UP by the end of the program.

No, I am not kidding.

But do you need to be able to do chin-ups to play at the elite levels of womens hockey? Not necessarily, but I can guarantee that you need to get stronger. A lot stronger. Click on the link below to watch the hockey workouts that are going
to help you get stronger this off-season.

The truth is most girls hockey players aren’t strong enough to compete at the elite level.

And getting stronger off the ice will make you a better player on the ice.

=> Getting stronger is going to give you a more explosive first-step.

=> It’s going to give you a more powerful shot.

=> It’s going to help you dominate all the 1-on-1 battles in the corner.

You many not be able to do 5 or 10 chin-ups, but you need to start with one. It takes players an average of 9 weeks to do their first chin-up - when they use the proper girls hockey training program.

Your solution to getting to the next level is simple:

Get Stronger = Get Better.

If you are 100% committed to getting to the elite level, and if you are ready to commit to put the work in to get there, together we can make your hockey dreams a reality.

=> Click here to get started with taking your game to the next level with the Complete Training System today.

Your friend and coach,

Kim

You’ve heard me say time and time again that my main goal as a coach of girls hockey players is to help them to avoid making the same off-ice training mistakes I made as an young player looking to play at the highest levels of women’s hockey. But I never actually told you specifically what those BIG off-ice training mistakes were. So here are the top 5 mistakes I made as a female hockey player…
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Today is a great day for elite women’s hockey in North America. I am in Kingston, Ontario, watching the superstars from the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and the Western Women’s Hockey League battle it for the title of the best women’s hockey team in North America. The rosters of the 4 teams that are here are jam-packed full of past, present and future Olympians, and players representing nearly all of the major college and university teams you can name. All of these women are extremely successful hockey players — so how did they get here?…

…By making their strengths stronger.

What are your three biggest strengths as a player? What can you do to make them even better?

Aspiring girls hockey players sometimes spend too much time focusing on improving their weaknesses, instead of on strengthening their strengths. If you are already the best forechecker on your team, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t work at becoming even better. What if you become the best forechecker in your league? Or in the world?

Back when I was playing at an elite level, these were my 3 biggest strengths:

1) My ability to forecheck

2) My physical strength

3) My ability to be in the right place at the right time

Sure, I could have just stayed “good” at these 3 areas of my game and focused my energy on some other skills I wasn’t so great at. For example, I never had the fanciest moves in the world - I could have spent hours and hours trying to be a pretty good stickhandler or I could focus my efforts on being the strongest player on the ice. I was never known as a player with the fanciest moves around and no one would have expected that from me. They did expect me to win all the battles in the corner, in front of the net and along the boards though.

It just made sense for me to make my strengths stronger instead of making my weaknesses a little better.

Now don’t get me wrong - if there was a skill that I couldn’t do at all, then I would have worked hard to make it competent. For example, when I first started playing women’s college hockey, I had no wrist shot whatsoever. I was always a defenseman as a kid, so I spent the majority of my time working on my slap-shot instead. But as soon as I was moved up front, I knew that I would have to develop a quicker release and a powerful wrist shot in order to be effective. So I spent a lot of time working on my technique to get the wrist shot up to a respectable level. I was never going to have the best wrist shot in the world, but I didn’t want it to be an embarrassment either.

Now that we are heading into the off-season, you have the opportunity to develop some of your weaknesses and really strengthen your strengths. My physical strength was always a huge asset for me on the ice, so I spent a lot of time in the summer working hard in my off-ice training to become the strongest player possible. For me, the road to success was always paved right through the weight room. Ten years ago, when I first went to college to play women’s hockey, my dedication to off-ice training really gave me a huge advantage over my competition. Nowadays, it is an absolute requirement. You can’t get to the elite levels of women’s hockey without working as hard off the ice as you do on the ice.

What 3 strengths are you going to make even stronger this off-season?

Work Hard. Dream BIG. Get Stronger.

~ Coach Kim

PS - My brand-new site just went live today. Check it out here: Total Female Hockey TRAINING.

Even though I am in Orlando (not exactly a female hockey mecca), I still wanted to show you some great core exercises you can use to increase your performance in-season.
Get started with these exercises today and take your hockey strength and performance to the next level. Now, it’s back to the sun, before I head back to snowy Toronto tomorrow.

Work Hard. Dream BIG.

~ Coach Kim

In the short video below, I’ll show you 3 simple exercises that you can do every day to increase the strength in your wrists, which will make your stick-handling, passing and shooting dramatically better.

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“I don’t want to do strength training in-season, it’s going to make me sore and tired.”

This has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to working with girls hockey players. Most girls understand that off-season off-ice training is critical to in-season success, but very few are willing to commit the time, energy and effort to doing strength training during the season.

And that is a HUGE mistake.

Strength training in-season not only allows you to maintain the advantage you built up with your off-season training, but it will separate you from the rest of the players who can’t be bothered to train off the ice in-season.

You have no excuse not to strength train in-season. With body-weight training, you don’t need to go to the gym and the whole routine will take you less than 20 minutes.

Still skeptical?

This story will change your mind.
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In order to play hockey properly, you’ve got to have bad posture - but that doesn’t mean that you want to have bad posture away from the rink as well. In this video, I will show you why all girls hockey players need to have bad posture on the ice, but I am also going to show you 2 ways to fix it off the ice.

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The concussion rate in girls hockey is downright scary. Studies have show that girls’ hockey players are 2 times more likely to suffer a concussion than male hockey players and almost 3 times more likely than football players.

I shared these numbers, and my own concussion story, with the local media and the story has spread like wildfire across North America. All this coverage has sparked a great debate about WHY these injuries are happening and IF the research numbers are accurate.

You can debate the statistics and the causes ‘til you are blue in the face.

But I am NOT willing to wait for more girls to sustain serious head injuries to support (or refute) the numbers before I start taking action. And you shouldn’t wait either.

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How many push-ups can you do? I ran a Total Female Hockey Push-Up Contest this past weekend at a tournament and I had players, teams and even parents going for the win.

And I am talking about real legitimate elbows to 90 degrees, body in a straight line push-ups - not barely bending your elbows or letting your hips sag down to the ground. The player who won the contest completely blew me away - her form was perfect and she managed to pull off…

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