Gladiator Elite Hockey Program

09/05/2026

🏒 “Won’t the gym make them tired for games?”

It’s the question we get most from parents — and it’s a fair one. Here’s the honest answer.

It isn’t training that leaves kids flat on game day. It’s training that ignores their schedule. Same lift, same intensity, every week, no matter what’s coming. Ours is built the other way round: the game schedule comes first, and every session is placed around it.

Strength 2–3 days out. Activation the day before. A primer on game day. Recovery the day after. Every session has a job.

📊 And we don’t wait to be told they’re tired. VALD force plates, timing gates and grip testing, plus Vitruve bar speed — weekly and biweekly. If their sprint time is slower than usual, we see it that day and the session changes. Pull sets, drop intensity, switch to half strength and half recovery. Not a cookie-cutter program.
Your athlete shows up to games fresher, not flatter.

That’s the whole point.

📍 Ottawa South
📍 Orléans

September 8 to May 1

👉 Everything’s on the new site: www.gladiatortraining.ca — pick your plan and location.

Spots are limited.

📸: Drew Mawson

09/02/2026

🏒 5 reasons your athlete should keep training through the season

1: Maintain and increase performance. Everything built over the summer is either held or handed back over the next eight months.

2: Don’t give it back. Train through the season and they start next summer ahead. Stop, and next off-season is spent climbing back to where they already were.

3: Stay on the ice. Strong, balanced athletes get hurt less — through travel, fatigue, school and a heavy game load.

4: Hold power and speed. We test weekly and biweekly on force plates, VALD and Vitruve. If a number slips, we adjust before it shows up in a game.

5: The room they train in. Culture pushes them on the days motivation doesn’t — and that’s a mental edge on game day and at tryouts.

Registration is open for our 2026–27 In-Season Hockey Program. September 8 to May 1, built around your athlete’s game schedule.

Choose unlimited (Mon–Fri), 3×, 2× or 1× per week.

📍 Ottawa South & Orléans

👉 Register at www.gladiatortraining.ca — pick your plan and location. Spots are limited.

📸: Drew Mawson

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08/31/2026

🚨 REGISTRATION IS OPEN — 2026–27 In-Season Hockey 🏒

The off-season built it. The season is where you keep it — or lose it.

📅 September 8 to May 1. Unlimited training, five days a week, and every session written around your game schedule, not the other way around.

Strength and conditioning 2–3+ days out. Speed 2–3+ days out. Stability and core two days before and the day after. Activation the day before. Primer work on game day. Recovery and flush the day after. That’s how the pros structure a season. That’s how we structure yours.

📊 Baseline, midpoint and end-of-season testing, plus weekly and biweekly check-ins to track progress and monitor fatigue in real time — force plates, VALD and Vitruve.

Pick the plan that fits: unlimited (Mon–Fri), 3×, 2× or 1× per week.

⚠️ Now is not the time to stop. Staying strong and balanced protects your performance and helps prevent injury — and it’s how you show up ready for tryouts in April. Two or three weeks beforehand won’t move the needle.

📍 Ottawa South — 3:30, 4:15, 5:00 PM · [email protected]

📍 Orléans — 3:15, 4:00 PM · [email protected]

👉 Register now at www.gladiatortraining.ca — pick your plan and location. Link in bio.

Our brand new Coliseum athlete portal launches with it: track every test result and book your sessions in one place.

08/19/2026

We only hire from within — so we’re opening the door.

September to April. Real athletes, from youth to pro. Weekly workshops, VALD tech, and a full high-performance team around you.

Every coach on our staff started exactly here.

📩 Resume + cover letter, ONE PDF → [email protected]

Limited spots. Southbank & Orléans.

08/08/2026

VERTICAL JUMP TESTING 📈

One of the key tests we use throughout the off-season is the Abalakov Jump — a vertical jump performed with an arm swing, allowing the athlete to move more naturally and explosively in a way that better represents an athletic movement.

But we’re looking at a lot more than just how high an athlete can jump.

Using our jump testing, some of the key metrics we analyze include:

⚡️ Jump Height — overall explosive output
⚡️ RSI — an indicator of explosiveness, speed qualities and fatigue/readiness
⚡️ Eccentric Braking — how effectively an athlete can absorb force and decelerate
⚡️ Rate of Force Development (RFD) — how quickly an athlete can produce force

Together, these numbers give us a much clearer picture of how an athlete produces force, absorbs force, decelerates and ultimately creates speed and power.

From there, we can tailor exercises, loading strategies and training phases around what each athlete actually needs.

Assess → Train → Test → Adjust → Repeat.

That process continues throughout the entire off-season. We don’t just test on Day 1 and forget about the numbers — we continue to test, train and reassess to make sure the work in the gym is producing the adaptations we’re looking for.

And this is where July and August get exciting.

After months of work, many of our athletes are now hitting new personal bests across their testing — the result of everything they’ve built since Day 1.

The numbers don’t lie. 📈

Test. Train. Re-Test. Perform.

08/04/2026

The work you put in now is what shows up when the season starts.

The off-season isn’t just about getting tired—it’s about building the qualities that separate athletes when it matters most. Strength creates the foundation. From there, we develop explosive power, acceleration, top-end speed, change of direction, and the resilience to perform shift after shift.

When training is structured the right way, everything builds on itself. Stronger athletes become more powerful. More powerful athletes move faster. Faster athletes make more plays.

With camps and tryouts right around the corner, now is the time to make sure you’re prepared. Confidence on the ice comes from knowing you’ve already put in the work long before the puck drops.

Once the season begins, the goal changes. In-season training is all about maintaining the strength, power, speed, and durability you’ve built throughout the summer so you can perform at your best from Game 1 to the playoffs.

Stay tuned—our In-Season Hockey Performance Programs are launching soon. 👀🏒

☝🏻️

11/26/2022

Big thank you to the wolves and Assistant Coach Rick Dorval for setting this up, after playing back to back nights and an overtime with overnight travel, we set the team up with a low intensity dynamic circuit and finished with some light activation work as they take on the 67s tomorrow, all the best to these guys down the stretch.

Posted • ⚠️💪 Beast mode activated & the BIG BAD WOLVES are out in Ottawa. 🐺🔥

Thanks for the workout

01/18/2022

Attention future and current Strength and Conditioning coaches ❗️❗️

We are looking for a select few of individuals who would be interested in interning with us over the summer.

If you want to develop your skills, gain experience, and be apart of a network of professionals please send us a resume/cover letter and references in one PDF to [email protected]

02/14/2021

01/26/2021

Rockland Nationals and Ottawa 67s draft pick Gio Morneau with a end to end rush!