By Wayne Burke -December 29th, 2015- I love the holiday season. Lax players everywhere are posting on social media all their new heads, mesh kits and other gear they got for Christmas talking about how sick their stick is or how they can’t wait to get back playing. The new year means there is only […]…
By Sean Holmes -December 18th, 2015- Here is the latest Episode of my Lacrosse Training Tips feature with the Toronto Rock. The Single Arm Snatch is our level 1 progression of the Olympic Lifts. Olympic Lifters are the most powerful athletes in the world and I use safe variations of the lifts to make my […]…
By Sean Holmes -December 16th, 2015- Over the weekend I was in charge of performance testing for the Toronto Rock. We like to keep it pretty simple as it’s in the morning and the team plays an exhibition game at night. The reasoning is to hold the players accountable to each other that they are […]…
By Wayne Burke -December 14th, 2015- Last week, I introduced a lateral phase 3 drill which introduced a small hop into the drill. This is the first true plyometric drill in the progression. We can only do these after we have spent few weeks establishing a solid foundation of jumping and landing mechanics. Again the idea […]…
By Sean Holmes -December 10th, 2015- Reducing the likelihood of injury of my lacrosse players is my number 1 job. It may be by increasing strength, teaching proper movement mechanics, or by improving flexibility and joint mobility. In Episode 7 of my series with the Toronto Rock we show you the Split Stance Hip Extension/Flexion […]…
By Wayne Burke -December 4th, 2015- So far, we have introduced the foundation of true plyometric training in part 1 and part 2. In this video we introduce a small bounce to a lateral drill to teach the athlete to use a small hop, which when we land soft stretches our muscles, to help produce increased […]…
By Sean Holmes -December 3rd, 2015- In this video I have Brett Hickey demonstrating the Stability Ball Rollout. This is a great core stability exercise that we use. The key is maintaining a straight line from the knees to the shoulders, maintaining our “Pillar” the entire time. If you’ve read my article on Core Training […]…
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