Roller Hockey Off-Rink Conditioning Team Chemistry Effective Practice

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Roller Hockey Off-Rink ConditioningTeam
ChemistryEffective Practice
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Agenda

• Why Off-Rink Conditioning?
• Importance
• Goals
• Suggested Approach
• Young Athletes-10U
• 10-14
• Elite Athletes
• Work-Out Format
• Final Thoughts

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Why Off-Rink Conditioning?

• Cost of rink time
• Time and commitment constraints
• Is training for strength, speed, power,
  endurance, and flexibility your focus of team
  on-rink training sessions?

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Importance

• Game is faster than ever before
• Players are bigger, stronger, and faster
• Chance of injury increases
• You are at a serious disadvantage without
  improvements in strength, speed, flexibility, and
  endurance

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Goals

• Reach full potential
• Team bonding
• Discipline
• Mental toughness
• Sense of achievement
• Overall health and well being

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Approach

• Multi-lateral development
• the development of a variety of fundamental
  skills to help in becoming good general athletes
  before training in a specific sport.
• Periodization
• is the process of varying a training program at
  regular time intervals to bring about optimal
  gains in physical performance.
• Safety First
• Have Fun!

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10-14 Yrs.

• Focus
• Transition period from Basic towards Complex
• Continue to develop
• 1. Understanding
• 2. Multilateral Development
• 3. Prepare body and mind to train at an elite
  level

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Young Adults and Elite Athletes

• Focus
• To Compete and excel at the elite level of
  competition
• Have a competitive advantage in size, speed,
  strength, power, etc.
• Train specific to areas that will translate to
  the sport
• A strategic and scientific process affecting the
  athlete in many areas of their life (physical
  training, nutrition, sleep schedules, mental
  training and preparation, personal life
  sacrifices)

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Format, Example of a workout

• Warm-up
• often overlooked
• avoid injury and perform at the highest level
  possible
• Dynamic activity followed by stretching
• The Workout 
• Cool Down
• similar to the warm-up
• helps flush the body of lactic acid and toxins
  produced by the muscles during the workout
• long, slow stretching to recover the muscles and
  improve flexibility

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Team Chemistry

• New York Yankees
• Highest payroll
• Individual talent
• 1 of the last 6 World Series
• 2004 Detroit Pistons vs LA Lakers
• Detroit huge underdogs
• LA internal conflicts

Youth Teams Cam and friends 16U AAU New
Orleans
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Youth Teams

• Glory of the team, team comes first, explain the
  word team.
• Players should like one another but must respect
  one another.
• Players will work harder for friends
• Players more likely to pass, less selfishness
• Camaraderie
• 3. Line mate matching/ Strengths and weaknesses

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Building Team Chemistry

• 1980 Miracle On Ice
• Team USA Roller Hockey World Champions
• Outlining a team goal
• Creating a family atmosphere
• Team Meals
• Support/ Encouragement
• 5. Can you make players better friends (build
  camaraderie)?
• Cookouts
• Movies
• Pool parties
• Other fun sports (paintball)

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Effective Practice Time

• 50 of Time
• Skating
• Stick handling
• Passing
• Shooting

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Offense Defense

• 30 of Time
• One on Ones
• Two on Ones
• Two on Twos
• Three on Twos

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Scrimmage Special Teams

• 20 of Time
• Face 0ffs
• Line Changes
• Power Play
• Penalty Killing