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Periodization: Planning for Year-round Training

Hockey has become an international game encompassing a global player market. Success in today's game is not simply in defeating your opponents, but in being "creative" at out playing them. Mitron High Performance Hockey Training Centres emphasize the development of skills and athleticism for hockey players through year-round training.

Through the process of periodization, the hockey player's optimal skill development follows a logical training sequence over a twelve month period - dividing the training phases (Off-Season, Pre-Season, In-Season, Post-Season) into specialized programs. These programs are designed for recreational, competitive and elite hockey players from Novice through Junior levels.

All instructors within Mitron High Performance Hockey Training Centres are highly skilled individuals with related experience as players and/or coaches who receive on-going training from our "Instructor Development Program".

 

Periodization: Planning for Year-round Training Periodization provides a technique of dividing training time into training phases (Off-Season, Pre-Season, In Season, Post-Season) and training cycles (macrocycle, mesocycle, microcycle). The hockey player's optimal skill development follows a logical training sequence over a twelve month period. He begins with an off-ice general training program to build his overall general base. This is done during the off-season and requires eight to twelve weeks to achieve an optimum training effect. Following the off-ice general training program, an on-ice specific training program begins. This program focuses directly on specific muscle groups and skills involved in hockey. The program runs during the pre-season and requires two to six weeks. Following the on-ice specific training program, the hockey player advances to an off-ice/on-ice team improvement program. Team improvement takes precedence in-season over individual development and much practice time is spent on technical skills and team systems.

 

MITRON HIGH PERFORMANCE HOCKEY CENTRE
SPRING/SUMMER SPECIALIZED TRAINING PROGRAMS

 

	Players train up to 7 days per week over a period of 10 weeks under the guidance and direction of a Mitron Strength & Conditioning Specialist.
	The players are divided into 8 training teams of 3 members per team. This allows for safe, supervised training sessions, adhering to strict work to rest ratios within a highly motivating training environment.
	The daily training sessions are 2 hours and include classroom sessions emphasizing sports psychology and sports nutrition.
	Pre and post fitness evaluations allow for accurate, individual prescriptions of conditioning and weight training programs with continual feedback and motivation.
	Ongoing nutrition audits and counselling help to accurately analyze the total energy intake and the correct amounts of nutrients. This analysis leads to individual weight gain, weight loss, or weight maintenance diets that help in reducing body fat or increasing muscle mass.

High Performance Training Camp

• Improve the technical skill base with daily on-ice sessions that exceed game speed using the Mitron High Tempo Flow System.
• Improve the tactical skill base with daily on-ice sessions that directly simulate game conditions that will allow players to identify and focus on key situations that they will face during actual game competition.
• Teach players how to develop their aerobic endurance base, general flexibiliy, and muscular strength and power.
  Educate players on the importance of good nutrition to supply energy and how to gain muscle weight, reduce body fat, and maintain a good playing weight.
• Teach players how to train off-ice to improve their skating speed, agility, and acceleration.
• This full-day program consists of the following sessions:
• On-Ice Technical Skills Session (90 minutes)
  This on-ice session will concentrate on improving skating, passing, checking, shooting, and puckhandling skills using unique high tempo flow drills.
• Off-Ice Dryland Training Session (60 minutes)
  The dryland session will teach players how to quickly improve their fitness and skating skills through plyometric training and other dryland training techniques.
• On-Ice Tactical Skills Session (90 minutes)
  During this on-ice session, players will be exposed to the various options that can be used while executing group tactical skills (2-on-1/2-on-2/3-on-1/3-on-2) as well as other tactical strategies such as weaving, crisscrossing, picking, screening, and cycling.
• Off-Ice Sports Nutrition Session (60 minutes)
  The classroom session on sports nutrition will review the nutritional requirements of hockey players, pre-game nutrition guidelines, pre-game meals, and the pros and cons of weight gain/weight loss diets.

Technical Development Program (AGES: 7 - 9)

This program teaches all the technical skills at a challenging fast tempo, and emphasizes hockey specific endurance.

Program Objectives

• Develop puck control at high speed
• Improve passing and receiving skills
• Improve skating speed and quickness
• Develop shooting quickness
• Develop shooting accuracy
• Develop checking skills

Advanced Technical Development Program (AGES: 9 - 12)

This program provides daily on-ice sessions that approximate or exceed game speed and game conditions by incorporating our "High Tempo Flow System."

Program Objectives

• Develop puck control at high speed
• Improve passing and receiving skills
• Improve skating speed and quickness
• Develop shooting quickness
• Develop shooting accuracy
• Develop checking skills

Tactical Development Program (AGES: 10 - 12)

This program teaches the concepts of width, depth, space, and time, as well as offensive and defensive group tactics and read and react skills.

Program Objectives

• Improve forechecking skills
• Improve backchecking skills
• Develop group tactical skills
• Develop ability to read the rush
• Improve gapping and angling skills

Advanced Tactical Development Program (AGES: 10 - 13)

Using a combination of European and North American high tempo flow training techniques, this program will emphasize developing and improving the concepts of offensive and defen- sive group tactics and team play.

Program Objectives

• Improve forechecking skills
• Improve backchecking skills
• Develop group tactical skills
• Improve gapping and angling skills
• Develop offensive team play skills
• Develop defensive team play skills

Goaltender Development Program

Goaltenders will be able to develop their basic skills and study various theories of playing angles and applications of shooting tendencies.

Program Objectives

• Improve shot blocking skills
• Develop lateral movement agility
• Improve arm and leg speed movement
• Improve the playing of angles
• Develop the ability to read the rush
• Improve skating skills

4-On-4 Scrimmage Program

This challenging program trains players using a 4-on-4 scrimmage format which causes the execution of technical skills at game speed and produces a hockey-specific conditioning effect.

Program Information

• For AA and AAA players only
• No body contact allowed at any time
• Games handled by 2-man referee system
• Teams coached by Mitron Head Instructors
• Maximum of 6 teams of 4 players each

Location

Conditioning/Pre-Tryout Program (AGES: 10 - 12 and 13 - 15)

This demanding program fully prepares players for their upcoming travel (competitive) team tryouts by improving their conditioning and skating skills through high tempo/ high flow training methods and competitive scrimmages.

Program Objectives

• Improve skating speed and quickness
• Improve tactical skills and strategies
• Improve passing and receiving skills
• Improve agility and cornering ability
• Improve anaerobic power and capacity
• Improve anaerobic threshold base

Puck Handling & Shooting Clinic

This unique clinic is designed to enhance individual puckhandling skills and improve shooting techniques and strategies while attacking the net.

Program Objectives

• Improve puck control at high speed
• Develop quick changes in direction
• Improve dekeing and lateral movement
• Develop shooting quickness
• Improve shooting accuracy
• Develop shooting strategies

Skating Speed & Acceleration Clinic

This specialized clinic focuses on increasing skating speed and acceleration which will allow players to execute technical skills at high speed under game conditions.

Program Objectives

• Increase forward skating speed
• Increase backward skating speed
• Improve agility and acceleration
• Improve balance and pivoting skills
• Improve cornering ability (turns)

Initiation to Body Contact Clinic/ Checking Technical (AGES: 10 - 13)

This clinic focuses on teaching body contact and body checking skills as well as improving skating balance, agility and cornering ability.

Program Objectives

• Develop angling skills
• Develop stick checking skills
• Improve body contact skills
• Develop body checking skills
• Improve skating balance, agility and cornering ability

The registration fee is refundable less an administration fee of $25.00, if your registration is cancelled prior to the deadline.

Family Discount...save 10% when the same person registers for a second program or another person registers from the same family.

Groups of 10 or more please call our toll free line at 1-800-716-6716.