Off Ice Hockey Dryland Training Workout Program (Toronto/Online)

PROFESSIONAL OFF-ICE DRYLAND HOCKEY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR HOCKEY PLAYERS

Our Off Ice Hockey Dryland Training Program (In-Person & Online) Reprograms Your Body Neurologically to Gain Elite-Level Strength, Speed, Power, Conditioning, and Durability to Become Professional Players

NEXT LEVEL IN 12-16 WEEKS

Increase Your Hockey Confidence

Overcome challenges, become a better leader or captain, be feared on and off-ice, and make smarter good hockey decisions with and without the puck.

Strength & Conditioning For Hockey Athletes

Personalized hockey training program to get your upper body and lower body stronger, more mobility, more agility, reach next level of adaptation, and elevate your skill work.

Hockey Drills for Speed & Explosiveness

Off-season speed training includes sprint variations to maximize explosive power, faster foot speed, faster acceleration, and higher top velocity.

Maximize Physical & Mental Resilience

Every young hockey athlete needs stronger muscles, tendons, and ligaments to be more balanced, but they also need tough professionals to increase their mental fortitude.

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Limited spots available.
Waiting list is available upon request.

“The LPS program is a big reason why my game is where it’s been for the past couple of years… Back to the short (2012-13 lockout) season when I won the Norris Trophy, I remember how I felt that year and every year since then. It’s probably made the biggest difference in my career.”

– P.K. Subban, NJ Devils (NHL)

WHAT IS IT?

Our comprehensive personalized strength and conditioning workouts consists of a multi-phased approach of the best exercises, professional coaching with certified coaches in-person or online to take your game to the Pro level.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Our Hockey Dryland Training Program is essential for competitive to professional hockey players of all ages (10+) who want an unfair competitive advantage, and be injury-free with a result-proven scientific system that has built pros.

WHERE DOES IT HAPPEN?

We recommend the hockey workouts to be done in-person at our facility in Toronto (North York) where we have specialized equipment. For individuals who are unable to come in-person, we provide online coaching, or a hybrid approach.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

We begin with a Remapping assessment, and then our team will design a personalized program in an app for you. You will work with our certified coaches with hockey exercises that targets all muscle groups to increase your range of motion and overall hockey performance.

WHEN DOES IT START?

Our program starts whenever you are ready. Some athletes do off-season training, some athletes train in-season, and most of our elite athletes train all year round. Your program is typically ready 48 hours after the Remapping assessment.

WHY DOES IT EXIST?

We created the this off-ice program because improvement requires the best experts, the right environment, culture, and a results driven system backed by scientific research that addresses high-risk deficiencies and increases sports performance.

ARE YOU READY TO DOMINATE?

DRY LAND TRAINING PROCESS

Consultation Call

CONSULTATION CALL

The consultation meeting is done on a call or in-person. A certified coach will go over your history, goals, the process, and the results that you’re looking for to see if we’re the right fit for each other.

A black and white image of an athlete training at LPS Athletic Centre in North York.

INITIAL ASSESSMENT

We start with a Remapping™ Assessment with a certified coach. This assessment identifies muscular imbalance and movement patterns to helps us develop a personalized program to increase performance.

An example of how easy it is to get into the intensive training program at LPS Athletic Centre.

PERSONALIZED PLAN

You will have your own personalized program addressing your needs.  Your program and progress can be accessed digitally anywhere, and your data is shared with your coaches to further refine your program.

A in gym view of coach Clance working with athletes at LPS Athletic Centre.

DRYLAND COACHING

Training off the ice under the supervision of a certified coach. Our coaches will help with technique, loading progression, and intensity to prepare you with stronger core, quickness on the ice, and injury prevention.

An example of our intensive off-season training for professional and young athletes in North York ON at LPS Athletic Centre.

DIGITAL TRAINING TOOLS

  • Access Anywhere
    Whether you train in-person with us, or online, it is like having our coaches in your pocket.
  • Progression Data
    Easily track, see, and share your results with others. Your program dynamically changes based on your numbers.
  • Technique Mastery
    Detailed video explanation of how to properly perform each exercise.
  • Substitute Any Exercise
    Can’t perform an exercise? Easily adjust to ensure a full-body workout.
  • Supportive Community
    Communicate & share messages, videos, pictures, and voice notes with your coaches & teammates.

WHAT ELITE HOCKEY PLAYERS SAY ABOUT US

BE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY OF SELECTED ATHLETES WHO ARE UNSTOPPABLE IN THE PURSUIT TO DOMINATE.

WHY SHOULD I CHOOSE LPS ATHLETIC?

We are The Pro Maker™ – Our Hockey players become world-class versions of themselves on and off the ice. We relentlessly create unfair advantages so that you become so great, that you can’t be ignored on the ice.

 

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Elite Hockey training routines consist of hitting the gym at least four (4) times a week during the off-season and once or twice a week during the season. For Junior hockey players under the age of 12, we recommend training at least twice (2) a week for any type of development.

Budget for at least 60 mins, but most of our sessions are 90 minutes. The demands on hockey athletes are strength, speed, power, coordination, and durability.  You’ll be working with our coaches closely, so when they see that you are ready, additional speed training is added add to improve your multi-directional speed, explosive speed that translates to the ice in their skating power.

Youth hockey kids can start training sessions with relative weights as young as 6 years old. Research and many medical associations deem weightlifting for kids is safe. The most important aspect is ensuring they have proper instructions, loading, and progression.  The old-age myth of weight training stunting the growth of youth players have been debunked, and in this article we explore how hockey training done properly will actually help promote growth because it increases bone density.

Not necessarily. While we recommend all training to be done at our location in Toronto (125 Martin Ross Avenue, North York, ON) because we have specialized equipment to maximize their output in a shorter time, we work with dozens of athletes remotely online or in a hybrid model. Additionally, our program is designed for seasoned athletes to execute on their own, and we do online coaching where beginners to intermediate experienced athletes gets live feedback or through video submissions to help them with their techniques, intensity, and program adjustments.

The dryland training drills that are best vary based on their age, size, and position.  Young hockey players under the age of 12 focuses a lot more on body workouts, mobility exercises, with a mix of foundational movement dryland drills such as variations of squats like the split squat, lunges, chin ups, push ups to name a few.  For elite, college and pro athletes, they must be using proper training equipment such as barbells to do explosive movements so that their ligaments, tendons and fascia (aka body) to move together synchronously to learn to receive, react, and recoil forces which is valuable when they enter body contact.

The short answer is both. Lower body exercises for hockey athletes set the foundation for balance, speed, power.  All power comes from the legs.  We don’t believe in isolating or compartmentalize body parts, but instead we want to make sure the areas of the glutes, hamstrings, quads, hip, ankles, calves, knees, etc. all wok together synchronously because your body makes unconscious split second decisions, and it needs to be trained so that they are neurologically working together.  For the upper body, there is a saying, “your arms dictate how fast you run”, and we believe this to be true.  There is a perfect ratio of chest strength in relations to back strength that will optimize skating speed. If you want to get faster hockey speed, and want to take your game to the next level, you must work on the whole body and get as close to these ratios as possible when building strength and power, and core strength.

We recommend setting aside at least 12 weeks (best if its 16) to stop any serious hockey games.  A common mistake we see parents make is the directing their focus on spring Hockey, and not focusing on the foundation of building their body so that they can reap the rewards of having higher performance on the ice after the off-season.  In the off-season, we recommend that on-ice skills training, Hockey IQ, and developing the physical and mental fortitude are all equally important for the elite.

Training strictly in the gym will gain physical and mental ability that will transfer to the ice, for example shooting that puck faster, crashing into the boards faster, getting to the puck first, or being strong (immovable) over the puck.  While training can help, every athlete must simultaneously continue to develop their skills development, and Hockey IQ throughout the year.

The biggest challenge we see is that many athletes do not prioritize the time to train their body in the off-season. When we explore how hockey families in the last decade has changed; is that they are attending more and more camps, doing more and more spring Hockey, following what everyone else is doing versus doing what actually will help the athlete perform in the future.

In the sport of Hockey, players that dominate possess athletic movements based from strength, power, explosiveness, speed, mobility, agility and longevity. To give you an example, one of the exercises such as squats is a big determining factor of how quickly you can break inertia (starting power).  Leg strength is the number 1 contributor to your skating performance to get faster, but at the end of the day, for complete transfer, you must play hockey.

Yes, our program is designed to improve your body inside and out to ensure athletic success. Whether you’re a hockey player that is looking to gain lean muscle mass, lose body fat, and/or get bigger, we have customized nutrition plans for you paired alongside with weekly body composition scans.

THE DRYLAND HOCKEY TRAINING SUMMARY

  • A Remapping™ Assessment
  • Custom Designed In-Season & Off-Season Workouts
  • Training App to Track & Measure Progress
  • Supervised by Our Certified Coaches
  • Exclusive Access to the Community of High School, College and Pro Players
  • Access to Events, Webinars, and Member Content

APPLY TODAY TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY OF HOCKEY PLAYERS

Limited spots available.
Waiting list is available upon request.

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