what can i do to increase my speed in hockey?
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You need to get in the weight room and do lot of low weight reps on your quads and hamies.  This will increase your force production without increasing your weight, which should increase your speed.  Working on your calves should help some, too.
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Play hockey because it takes guts and discipline, and those two qualities alone will take you far in the world.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a thrill, and fun because it's fast and dangerous and taking some calculated risks is good for everyone, male or female.\n\nPlay hockey because you will get closer to the people on your hockey team than any other team you'll be on in sports.\n\nPlay hockey because in life you need to stand your ground, and yield nothing, and go all out, and you'll learn all those things in one minute and fifteen seconds on the ice.\n\nPlay hockey because young women who participate in sports are shown in studies to have higher self esteem and better grades than those who do not.\n\nPlay hockey because everyone needs to have a sense of their own mortality and nothing like 60 minutes on the ice will do that for you.\n\nExcept maybe skydiving.\n\nPlay hockey because you already know how to skate and skating's half the battle.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a great litmus test for boys.  The ones who are intimidated aren't worth a second glance.  The ones who think it's cool are.  The ones who come to your games are worth your phone number, and any guy who grabs his gear and joins you on the ice is one you should consider hanging onto.\n\nPlay hockey because you'll love it.  Pretty much anyone who starts -- girls or boys -- winds up with hockey as their passion, and we all need a passion in life.\n\nPlay hockey because it will be different, and will open doors into new experiences for you.  You will learn things that girls who play tamer sports will never know.  Things like reall grit, real toughness, and that the bigger they are, the harder they really do fall.\n\nPlay hockey because if you ever choose a vocation like firefighting or the military, you cannot have a better starting point.  You will have already learned important lessons and skills vital to those kinds of jobs.\n\n(Maybe you better not tell your mom that last one, but it's true -- I've done firefighting and hockey both. ;) )\n\nPlay hockey because it's fun.\n\nGood luck with your mom -- as I've said to others here, maybe make a deal with her that if you play you maintain a certain GPA.  If you don't hold up your end of the bargain, you'll quit.\n\n**\nWith due respect to Zelda, I don't think checking means "exciting."  Women play a different, less physical game much of the time, simply because we have no reason to use our size when size isn't our best advantage.  Women tend to be fast, technical players.  They can also be aggressive, it all depends on the player.  But I've never seen or participated in a 'boring' women's hockey game.
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Increasing your speed is one of the most athletic challenges the human body can endure. Try running in a pool for awhile. After that gets too easy, put weights on your ankles and run around the pool again, worked for Michael Jordan.
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There are 3 things that you can do to run faster: You can increase your leg turnover rate.\nYou can increase your stride length.\nYou can increase your overall strength so you can maintain a faster turnover and longer stride for a longer time. That is, you run faster by not slowing down as much.\n\nHere are some things to try to affect one or more of these things.\n\n1.Work on your (running) strength. You should do interval workouts, 100 hard run (not sprint) followed by 100 walk/jog, then repeat. Start with 4 and work up to 10-12 repeats as you get stronger. For some workouts, do the same thing with 200s and occasionally a 400. \n\n2. Work on your upper body strength with weights. Do not go heavy, go light. You want to do a lot of quick reps rather than a few, slow, reps with heavy weights.\n\n3. Run some hills. If you can find a long, gradual hill, do some of your 100 repeats uphill. It will increase your knee lift and leg strength. As an alternative, run steps. Hills are better because running steps, you chop down your stride length to fit the steps.\n\n4. Learn to run “Fast, but relaxed”. Jog 20m, gradually accelerate to full speed over 20m, then slow back down to a jog over 20 m. Jog, then repeat. When you do this, concentrate on your form and staying relaxed through the whole 60m.\n\n5. There a some running related exercises that you can do. Skip like a little kid. Do repeat 50s. First skip for distance, making each stride as long as possible, then skip for height, working on getting your knee up and getting as much air as possible.\n\nTo prevent soreness, stretch out completely after your workout. You want to stay as flexible as possible. You don’t want to have one set of muscles working against another set of muscles.  A good book is Bob Anderson's  “Stretching” (See link below) you can probably find it at your local library, it’s a classic. It has pages of stretches. You may also be sore because you are running to tight and your muscles are fighting each other. If you are clenching your teeth and grimacing, you are too tight.
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daily stretching, light weight workout, daily runing\nlay off the junk food, get plenty of sleep, find someone to take some pitches from you. start slow 25 or so build up your endurance, work on location of pitches and variance of speed.
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I great way to improve your speed is to invest sometime and \nresearch in fast twitch muscle exercises, and plyometric training.  Combined with your regular football workout witch I imagine consist of at least basic football powr lifts like bench, squat, and deadlift.  adding these typ of exercises to your routine helps develope explosion and muscle response.  Another thing you may want to look into is proper running technique.  Running with proper technique can greatly improve your speed.  If your looking to improve your 40 time its great to know what stance give you the most explosive start, and what exercises help you increase your stride length and repition.  If you want information on these I would suggest looking up sprinter workouts for 100 meter and 200 meter runners or even consulting your local highschool or college track coach, you can even try to find some camps that specialize in speed training.
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Here are a few tips -- (I was a goalie for years and years)....for HAND/EYE CO-ORDINATION-- stand about 3-6 feet from a wall and toss a tennis ball off the wall underhanded with your right hand and catch it with your left, then toss it back with left and catch it with right. repeat this over and over, you will get quicker and more accurate........\nfor goalie skills, simply play street hockey. when we played we used sponge pads...you simply get a couch cushion, cut it in 2 and INSTANT GOALIE PADS, cut tiny holes to put shoelace through for straps and just play lots of street hockey working on fundamentals -- practice your angles, come out a little, and have your friends help you by shooting low on your stick side, then high on your glove side etc....practice the poke-check, keeping your legs closed, keeping stick on the ground (good way to do this is to make a 'heavy' goalie stick. you can tape something heavy like metal on back of blade of stick...this will make stick heavier than normal and it will be on ice more when you use a regular stick......\nfor skating, practice your backward skating -- either on ice or rollerblading...it helps !!\nwhen you are on ice...for flexibility/agility, get on knees and kick out right pad like you are stopping a shot....then pull right leg in and kick out left pad...do this several times in warm-ups...or kick out right leg several times in a row...then switch to left pad....for positioning.....\nthe best thing to do is to watch games (nhl, ahl, olympics, juniors, high school, anything) but concentrate on the positioning of the goalie. not only will you pick up some good tips, but you may also spot some things that goalie is doing wrong and you can even learn from that.........\nfor your confidence.....don't forget, goalies DO get scored on. if you are on a poor team, you may get scored on alot. if so, remember, they got by 5 guys first before they even got to you. and whether you get a shutout or let in eight --  try to remember all the great plays you did make, the saves, the positioning which forced a shot wide, the little technical tricks etc. GOOD LUCK MAN. GOALIES ARE A DYING BREED. BE AS GOOD A GOALIE AS YOU CAN. HAVE FUN FIRST.
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Work on your sprinting technique to increase efficiency of motion. I've always heard you can't teach "speed," so I think it's all about technique.
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The only thing in the weight room that will possibly make you jump higher is probably the jump rope.  Do an internet search for "plyometrics"; those should help with speed.  Going to a track and doing interval training is a pretty good idea too.
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One thing that helps is to "watch" as much hockey as you can. By that I mean watching games on TV, etc. By doing that, you surround yourself with a mental image that you can always be in. It helps as much to practice hockey mentally as it does physically. Once you can start thinking about what you would do in certain situations, how you would get by the defender, how you would play the puck, you've already gotten better. hope this helps :)
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http://www.competitiveedgeproducts.com/detail.aspx?ID=476\nthat will help improve your speed
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Friend,\nI didn't learn to play hockey until I was 34.\nPlaying in adult leagues is not to be compared to high school or college games.  The speed alone would wipe us out.  But the principles are the same.............positioning is the key.  You have to read the plays and anticipate where to be.  Your position on the ice is the key to your success or failure.
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use visualization and picture yourself "juking" out the whole team and them scoring a beautiful goal or something. or if you play defense, imagine saving a goal or tackling someone really hard. i use this technique before games, and it seems to help me. also try listening to your favorite music, that seems to help me also before big games...
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There are several workouts you can do to gain speed. There are some that are done in the track and others that are done in the weight room. On the track is do technique training (stuff done at slow speeds). Work on your stride and timing. Pushing off with your back leg, arms 90 deg. front to back not across the body. Do these to warm-up. Then run using good technique at 80% of max for 50meters, then jog 50mtrs, then sprint again at 80 for 50meters. To complete two laps. Then change to 30m at 90% 1 lap then 20 meters 100% one lap. Do this until you can increase the length to 200 meters at 80% then jog. In the weight room do SQUATS! Or explosive but controlled lifts like the Power Clean, Power Snatch (hehehehe), Dead Lift, and Bench Press. Good luck with the speed gains!!
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dude i play AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hockey.
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Encourage them, Go in and congratulate them when they score a goal.If you play D help your goalie out as much as you can, if u play Offense , get your stick on that puck as much as you can, make good passes, take shots on goal as soon as you take a chance, when the opposing team has the puck go get um, get ur stick tyed up in theirs. You might not be able to change your team but encourage them and try and play YOUR hardest, if one of your players on your team isnt playing their hardest, dont pay attention to him, do YOUR part in the game, and if you have a chance at the puck go get it.  Or you could always go discourage the other team, annoy them, mock them , etc... lol, jk. anyway do what YOU can, help your team out in the game as much as you can though. Good luck!!!
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speed drills, dribbling drills, and passing drills.\n\nspeed drills - you run a lot so you get used to the speed that your legs give you and you won't get tired easily in the game. run around the basketball court maybe minimum 5 times and your running speed will increase and gradually become easier for you. Oh and suicides are good too. (If you don't know what that is..its kinda complicated to explain because i've never explain it before...so you'll figure it out or look it up)\n\ndribbling drills (this may help you a lot) -  take the basketball, starting it in your strongest hand and dribble down the court without losing it until you reach the baseline at the other end. then pivet and crossover it to your opposite hand and repeat what you just did. you can also do that by dribbling with your strongest then crossovering it to your weakest around the b-ball court running or walking. \n\ncrossover drills - well, lets say your strongest hand is your right. start out dribbling to up diagonal right. take about three steps and then crossover to your left and go up diagonal left and take another three steps then crossover it to your right and continue the procedure. that'll help your crossover passes hopefully :]\n\npassing drills - just get a buddy and stand a distance away from them then either bounce pass, overhead pass, chest pass, and any other ways of passing to them. You can do that standing still at first. Then, you stand at the left or right side of the b-ball court and your friend stands at the left or right. then, if you or your friend has the ball, you begin running sideways down the court bounce passing it, chest passing it, overhead passing it, etc. all the way until you reach the end of the base line and do that again on your way back switching sides if you please.\n\nHope that helps! Sorry, i had to get that all from memory of the kind of practices/drills that I practice. :]