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Forget one‑size‑fits‑all meal plans — the modern women’s game is fuelled by data, biology, and timing. Today’s elite hockey players are tapping into precision nutrition that syncs with their own physiology, right down to the hormonal shifts of the menstrual cycle. The result? Smarter fuelling, faster recovery, and performance gains that last all season.
Join Brad & Hayden Shaw on turf for Powerplay skills for Masters and Juniors then adjourn to the Selwyn Sports Centre to learn the latest from 3 respected PhD clinician-researchers to enhance your health & performance.
From beep tests to brain‑smart speed — the game has moved on.
In hockey, your engine and your turbo aren’t the same thing. Maximal Aerobic Speed (MAS) builds the engine; Anaerobic Speed Reserve (ASR) is the turbo. The old Yo‑Yo test lumped them together — the Burcheit–Laursen approach teases them apart, giving you a clearer map of where to train. Nail both, and you’ll own the space between endurance and explosiveness.
Autonomic resilience is not a luxury—it is a prerequisite for longevity in sport and vitality in life. Cultivating this resilience is both a science and an art, requiring deliberate practice, reflective tracking, and adaptive strategies. It is the quiet force that sustains performance, buffers stress, and supports the body’s most fundamental rhythms.
Grip geometry isn’t cosmetic—it’s kinetic. We investigate how you apply ergonomic and biomechanical principles to optimize wrist alignment, reduce ulnar deviation, and enhance proprioceptive feedback. An octagonal form creates natural indexing points, promoting consistent hand placement and minimizing joint strain during high-repetition skills. This is design that speaks the language of tendons, not trends.
In the high-stakes choreography of hockey, the wrist is no passive hinge — it’s a dynamic fulcrum of control, torque, and resilience. Whether executing a reverse sweep under duress or feathering a 3D lift with surgical finesse, the wrist bears the brunt of modern play.Let’s look at the biomechanics, activation and strengthening needed to help optimise the wrist.
Every body has a code — few know how to read it. The Physiology Cipher takes some first steps inside the science that shapes women’s performance, helping you to begin to translate data into edge, and physiology into power without neglecting health & wellbeing.
In hockey — whether on turf or ice — the ball is rarely still, the environment is visually chaotic, and the margin for error is measured in milliseconds and millimetres. While strength, conditioning, and tactical awareness dominate most training programs, visual acuity across all vision attributes remains an under‑trained determinant of performance (Poltavski & Biberdorf, 2015). We can all do better. Image copyright Anastasia Badun.
Years in cold dugouts, crowded whiteboards, and the trenches of sports science have taught me one thing: in high‑performance sport, every dose matters. In a 7‑ to 14‑day tournament, where recovery windows are short and the stakes are high, the smallest interventions can tip the balance between fading and flourishing..welcome to microdosing