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Strength & Mobility Specialist: FRCms, FRAs, FRSC
15 Year Pro Hockey Player: Dylan Hood
Located for in-person training in Kelowna, BC 🇨🇦
Online Training Programs & FREE Hip Mobility Warmup in our links ⬇️

08/03/2026

🚨 It’s finally here. The Hockey Mobility Membership.

After almost three years of building, I’m incredibly excited to finally share it—and it’s not just another mobility program. This is the system I wish I had when my own body started breaking down.

The real value is knowing:
What should I do?
Why should I do it?
Where do I begin?

That’s where our Interactive Mobility Guide comes in play.

Tell it what you’re feeling:
• “My groin feels locked up.”
• “My hip flexors are always tight.”
• “My ankle hasn’t moved properly since my injury.”

The guide asks a few questions, helps identify what may be limiting you, and directs you to the session inside our platform that best matches what your body needs that day—and it’s all coached by me.

❌No endless scrolling.
❌No guessing whether you should be rebuilding, recovering, preparing, or bulletproofing.
❌No random exercises without understanding why.

This system was built through my own injuries:
A broken leg, 2 surgeries, and almost 18 months away from hockey.
Constant low back and SI joint pain.
Hips that had lost almost all internal rotation.
And being told hip replacements were likely in my future.

Learning how to truly understand and train my joints changed my career—and ultimately my life.

Now I’ve spent years turning those lessons into something athletes can actually use.

This isn’t meant to replace great coaches, therapists, or medical professionals. It’s designed to give athletes more ownership, understanding, direction, and confidence when something doesn’t feel right.

Stop guessing what your body needs.
Start building a body you trust.

Comment MOBILITY and we’ll send you the details. Make sure you’re following us to get it right to your inbox! 🤝

And as always, you can find all of our đź”—s in our bio!

07/14/2026

It’s about that time of the off-season where the focus starts shifting.

Earlier phases of training should help you build the strength, movement capacity and physical foundation you need.

But as the season gets closer, you need to start teaching your body to express that strength faster. That is where properly programmed speed and power training comes in.

Being strong is valuable—but hockey rarely gives you unlimited time to produce force.

You need to create force quickly when you:
⚡ Accelerate out of a stop
⚡ Win the first few strides
⚡ Push laterally through your edges
⚡ Change direction
⚡ Absorb contact and immediately reaccelerate
⚡ React to unpredictable situations

This is why explosive training needs to be more than randomly adding box jumps and sprints to the end of a workout.

A complete speed and power phase should include:
âś… Acceleration and sprint mechanics
âś… Lateral force production
âś… Plyometrics and reactive jumping
âś… Explosive strength exercises
âś… Deceleration and landing control
âś… Adequate rest so every rep stays fast

One of the biggest mistakes athletes make is turning power training into conditioning.

Once your speed drops significantly, you are no longer training maximum speed or power—you are training fatigue.

Keep the reps explosive, allow enough recovery and prioritize quality over quantity.

Our 8-Week Hockey Speed & Power Program gives you the complete structure to develop acceleration, lateral explosiveness, stride power and more transferable athleticism before the season begins.

Comment SPEED and we’ll send you the full program details. Make sure you’re following us to get it right to your inbox! 🤝

And as always, you can find all of our đź”—s in our bio!

The goal of plyometric training isn’t just to jump high. It’s to teach your body to produce force faster.In hockey, you ...
07/02/2026

The goal of plyometric training isn’t just to jump high. It’s to teach your body to produce force faster.

In hockey, you rarely have time to build force slowly. Every stride, crossover, first step, and change of direction depends on how quickly you can generate force and transfer it into the ice.

That’s where plyometrics become such a powerful tool.

When programmed properly, they can help improve:
âś” Rate of force development (how fast you produce force)
âś” Elasticity and stiffness through the ankle and lower body
âś” Reactive strength
âś” First-step quickness
âś” Acceleration and skating power

But it’s important to remember that not all plyometrics are created equal.

The exercise selection, volume, intensity, progression, and when they’re introduced into your training all matter if you want them to actually transfer to your skating.

Inside our 8-Week Speed & Power Program, every phase is built with that progression in mind—starting with the foundation, then building explosive power and ultimately helping you move faster where it counts: on the ice.

Comment SPEED and we’ll send you the details on our training programs. Make sure you’re following us to get it right to your inbox! 🤝

And as always, you can find all of our đź”—s in our bio!

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