Have you ever noticed that some people seem like they can train hours a day, every day, while others pace themselves throughout the week?  Are the former overtraining – breaking down their bodies?  Or are the others simply not pushing enough?  It may [...]

Dear Parents, Skaters, and the larger Colorado hockey community, It’s been just a year since I began my transition from a successful IT career to become a full-time skating coach. After the death of both my husband and my mother the previous year, [...]

“You don’t choose your sport, your sport chooses you.” In the past decade or so, this adage has become popular lore in the coaching, and hockey, world. And as both a skating and strength and conditioning coach, I’m here to tell you it’s [...]

Join me for a trial run of a remote training session Thursday, Oct 29 and/or Monday, Nov 2. All hockey players are welcome to join! Those of you skating with me Thursday night can just do Monday instead or rush home and join [...]

I rarely use my blog to tell my own athletic story, but for all you parents of introverts and introverts yourself, it might provide some meaningful insight. I still remember my first “race.”  I was just 7 years old and my sister had [...]

I recently had a prospective client come to me with questions about my training methods.  Being a hockey player, he had been looking at speed skating training for hockey when he came upon some information from a power skating coach whom recommended against [...]