Let's look at each of the "Elite Edition" upgrades in more detail:
The two new off-ice training programs that are part of the Complete Training System Upgrade are the two most effective training programs I have ever created.
One is the latest version of the strength training program that will make you unstoppable in the corners and have you winning every one-on-one puck battle.
The other is a brand-new hockey-specific conditioning program that you can't find anywhere else and is the only program guaranteed to make you a dramatically better skater without ever hitting the ice.
The Advanced Strength Program: Get Stronger Than Ever
This brand-new Advanced Strength Program is the most complete strength program I have ever written.
The first version of the strength program helped you to put your foundation in place for elite performance, and now it's time to take your strength to the next level.
I have to admit, Version 1.0 of the Strength program was pretty easy - maybe too easy. To be honest, it really should be an in-season training program. It should be used to maintain the strength you build up during the summer and keep you injury-free throughout the season.
Putting that simple foundation in place is absolutely essential, but to really take your on-ice performance to the next level, you need to increase your off-ice strength. That doesn't mean that you are going to be throwing big heavy weights around or slaving away in a weight room for hours on end.
When I asked you, the players I train, what you wanted to see more of in the program, you said more upper body strength exercises. You wanted to increase the power of your shot and your ability to fight off checks in the corners, so I included 23 new upper body strengthening exercises in the program.
Two major additions to the strength program are push-ups and chin-ups.
I know exactly what you are thinking, "I HATE push-ups and there is no way I am going to be able to do a chin-up."
The truth is you might suck at push-ups right now and you may not even be close to being able to do a chin-up...YET.
So I am going to make you a BIG guarantee.
If you can't do 20 perfect push-ups and at least 1 perfect chin-up after following the new version of the strength program to the letter, I promise that I will give you all your money back. No questions asked.
But you have to make me a promise too.
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Break the 1 chin-up barrier and the next 5 are easy (seriously!)
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When you do your first chin-up, you have to email me so that we can celebrate. Doing your first chin-up is a huge accomplishment and should never be taken lightly. 95% of girls will never do a single chin-up in their entire lives, but some of the best female hockey players in the world can do over 20. In fact, the latest record for the US national team players was 29! OK so 29 chin-ups is a lot - but it's not like that player just woke up one morning being able to rattle off 20+ chin-ups. She started with one and you will too.
And when you are showing your teammates how you are able to knock out 20 push-ups like they're nothing, and impressing your coaches with the power of your shot and your ability to win every battle in every corner of the ice because of your new-found upper body strength, you have to tell me all about it too.
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No big weights
necessary!
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Because that IS what is going to happen after you use the Advanced Strength program. Notice how I didn't say that you are going to be lifting big weights to get stronger. This isn't about winning a body-building contest, this is about becoming stronger for hockey and for what you need to do out on the ice to be the best player possible.
That's why I have also included the brand-new Core Power Exercises in the Advanced Strength Program. If you want to have the most powerful shot out on the ice, this is the most critical part of the program for you. All you are going to need is 5 minutes, a light medicine ball and a brick wall to throw it against, and you'll develop the laser-like shot you've always wanted. With Version 1.0 of the Strength Program, you built up your core stability and strength - now you're ready to develop your core power.
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Take Your Shooting Power Through The Roof!
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There are also 27 new exercises for strengthening your legs in the Advanced program. Your legs are your main engines out on the ice. You need them to be as strong, stable and explosive as possible so that you can win every single race to the puck in open ice and change direction instantaneously in the corners.
The Advanced Strength program will make you stronger, which will also make you faster and more powerful all over the ice. By taking your single-leg strength, upper-body strength and your core stability, strength and power through the roof off the ice, you will be unstoppable on the ice.
There is a brand-new Advanced Strength Training DVD included in the Complete Training System upgrade. There are over 75 exercises in the new version of the program and I want to make sure that you can follow along with the video and watch me demonstrate and describe each and every exercise so that you can perform every workout safely and
effectively.
And remember - most girls aren't doing this type of training at all.
Now You Can Use The Advanced Strength Training Program That Will Put You So Far Ahead Of The Competition That It Will Be Impossible For Them To Catch Up.
Just like I guaranteed that you will be able to do 20 perfect push-ups and at least one perfect chin-up after using the Advanced Strength program, I am going to make another BIG guarantee for the Advanced Conditioning Program.
The Advanced Conditioning Program: Be In The Best Shape Ever
I am guaranteeing that this brand-new hockey-specific Advanced Conditioning Program is going to make you a dramatically better skater - without you ever having to hit the ice. I can't say that it will make you 10%, 20% or even 30% better because that's pretty hard to measure in a sport where you don't skate in a straight line for very long, but I will guarantee you that you will be much stronger, quicker, more stable and more powerful on your skates after using this hockeyspecific conditioning program.
I have to admit...I was skeptical too when I first started using this off-ice conditioning program back when I trained in Calgary. There I was, training alongside the national team girls, doing these really simple looking skating movements off the ice, wondering how this was going to make me a better player.
We did one or two of these quick workouts per week (30 minutes or less), out on the field behind the rink. The training sessions involved so many different versions of single-leg squats, lunges, jumps, bounds and other unique movements that mimic the skating stride that I never thought I would be able to remember them all. That's why I am glad I wrote them down.
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Take Your Skating To The Next Level Without Touching The Ice!
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I was absolutely amazed at how much faster I was and how much stronger my skating felt when I finally went back on the ice a few months after starting these off-ice “skating” sessions. I knew the workouts we did we intense and hockeyspecific, but I really had no idea that they would be that effective. These workouts were originally designed to help speed skaters increase their skating speed - and wouldn't we all love to be able to skate that fast? I was no speed skater by the time we were done with the off-ice conditioning program, but I can tell you that I was faster, quicker and more explosive than I had ever been before. These interval-based workouts used such simple looking exercises and short workouts that I really didn't expect them to make a big difference in my performance, but they really did.
There Are 2 Reasons That I DIDN'T Include These Off-Ice Hockey-Specific Conditioning Workouts In The “Original” Version of The Complete Training System...
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Clearly I need to work on my
“shoot the duck” form too.
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The first one is that the exercises are a little bit more complicated to explain than the sprint variations that made up the original conditioning program. I wanted to make sure that I had a step-by-step DVD for you to follow along with for this new conditioning program so that you know you are performing the exercises perfectly. These exercises can't really be explained on paper - you have to see them.
That doesn't mean that you can scrap the sprint intervals you did in the original version of the program. You will be doing both the “old” sprinting workouts, and the “new” off-ice skating workouts, in the the Advanced Conditioning program because both are equally important to taking your hockey-specific fitness to the next level.
The second reason I didn't include the off-ice skating workouts in the original program is that I knew these workouts were more intense and challenging than most of the previous conditioning workouts and I wasn't sure if younger players would be up to the challenge. But-after using these new conditioning workouts with my players and teams last summer, and even throughout this season, I saw the amazing results they had on players' skating speed and stamina, and I knew that I had to include these workouts in the Complete Training System upgrade.
Now, using the new strength training and conditioning programs alone are going to make such a huge difference in the way you feel and perform next season (remember my 100%
guarantees), I could just leave it at that.
In order to be the best player possible you have to do two things: work hard and dream BIG. Having BIG goals and dreams are great - but they can seem really far away, unless you have an exact plan of how to get there.
Whether you want to play college hockey, make the national team or be the best player on your team or in your league next season, you need to have a personal plan in place for how you are going to achieve those goals.
That was my problem as a elite player. Like many of you, my two big goals were to play college hockey and play for the national team, but I didn't have any idea how to get there. There I was as a 15 year-old, who had only been skating for a few years, setting these HUGE goals with absolutely no plan of how to achieve them. I was a good player with average skills and a tremendous drive to get better and a willingness to absolutely anything to get to the next level. I wanted to be the best but I didn't know how to get there.
I set my two ultimate goals for hockey, but I never set any smaller goals that would move me closer to my dreams day after day. If you want to be the best, you have to plan for it. You need to set the yearly, monthly, weekly and daily goals that are going to move you closer to your ultimate goal.
Becoming the best doesn't just happen - you have to plan for it.
