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Monday Clinic

So did a week of interval training make any discernable difference in my performance?  Maybe. I talked to the coach before practice about changes I’d made in my workout routine this week and he thought they were okay.  He also…

Back at the Hockey Clinic

Yes, I’d been planning to start back with the lessons in January, but I had several things that would have interfered with Monday nights and didn’t want to start if I couldn’t go every week right away. Did the three…

Getting in Shape

Next Monday I’ll be getting back on the ice for my first hockey clinic in almost a year.  Since my last clinic (where I had the interesting experience of slamming face-first into the boards), a variety of things we’ll call…

Monday Clinic

So … yeah … not my most impressive showing at the clinic … On the plus-side, I have a new stick.  The old one was wood, no flex at all and cost $19.99.  New one’s composite, has some flex which…

I’m not the Slowest! (except sometimes)

The skating drill at tonight’s clinic was an important milestone for me: I wasn’t the last one across the ice in one of the drills. Yay! So skating drill tonight was goal-line to blue-line forward, then return backward; then the…

Monday Clinic

Tonight’s clinic started in what I’m going to start calling The Bad Way – that is, goal-line to goal-line skating drills that I’ve described in two of the last three clinic posts.  Not going to elaborate further again. However, they…

Monday Clinic

Last night’s clinic started much the same as my first one – that is to say, lots of end-to-end skating drills.  This time, though, I seem to be in a little better shape – I’m still out of breath and…

Monday Clinic

Made it to my second Monday clinic and it was a much better experience than the first one.  Coach started us off with laps because no one had stretched – four times around, but I was able to stay with…