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Tim Lebbossiere, the strength and conditioning coach for the Providence Bruins joins the show.
We discuss:
- His journey coming up through the ranks in the strength and conditioning world
- How he creates individualized programs in team settings
- How he's dealing with so much time off and uncertainty around the AHL season.
 
Read the full transcript of the episode and links to everything mentioned at prohockeystrength.com, the official website of the Strength and Conditioning Association of Professional Hockey.

On Episode #94 of the Hockey Strength Podcast Ryan Smyth joins the show to talk about implementing athlete monitoring technologies. Ryan has a background in technology so he comes at this from a unique perspective.
 
You can reach out to Ryan on Twitter (@ryanjsmyth) and LinkedIn.
 
For show notes and more you can head over to prohockeystrength.com.

*Special Announcement*
On episode #93 of the Hockey Strength Podcast, Mike Potenza of the San Jose Sharks joins the show to give a special announcement:
A few months after I started running HSC Mike, who's in addition to the head strength and conditioning coach of the San Jose Sharks, is also the president of the Strength and Conditioning Association of Professional Hockey (SCAPH).
SCAPH is comprised of all the NHL and AHL strength coaches.
But over the last few years, they’ve expanded into running educational events and helping out the S&C community.
And Mike reached out to me about SCAPH getting involved in the website.
We decided to partner up...
And turn HSC into the official website of SCAPH, and you can find us at prohockeystrength.com.
As SCAPH, we’re going have all new content from the coaches of all 62 NHL and AHL teams…
Bringing the latest training ideas, research, and practices right to YOU.
And our members' section is going to be reserved for something a little special.
But you can go learn more about what Mike and other top coaches think is one of the most important facets of being a successful coach…
And why we’re only providing this to members only.
Learn more about the NHL coaches’ #1 tip to grow in your career.

On episode #92 of the Hockey Strength Podcast, Vicki Bendus joins the show.
 
Vicki is a Lead Sport Performance Coach at Brock University where she works with the Men's and Women's hockey teams, as well as soccer teams. In addition, she is the Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Canadian National Women's Development Team after working with both U18 and Senior programs over the past 3 years. Vicki is currently pursuing her PhD that will be focused on identifying, measuring, and improving off-ice KPIs for linear skating speed.
 
In this episode, we talk about her PhD research on what off-ice drills and data correlate to on-ice speed.
 
You can reach out to Vicki @vickibendus on Instagram and Twitter
 
Read the full transcript at hockeystrengthandconditioning.com

In episode #91 of the Hockey Strength Podcast, Joel Jackson joins the show. Joel is the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta and the co-founder of Competitive Thread, a company that provides on-ice speed testing technology.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Programming strategies for a cancelled season (and lots of uncertainty)
- The value of on-ice speed testing
- Strategies for on-ice speed testing with basic technology.
 
To see the full transcript of this episode, including links to everything mentioned, go to hockeystrengthandconditioning.com

On episode #90 of the Hockey Strength Podcast, Christian Burrus joins the show.
 
Christian is the co-founder of Adapt Fitness, a company leveraging emerging technologies to provide elite-level programming to anybody.
 
We talk about education, the Adapt platform, where coaching and programming are headed in the next decade, and how coding and machine learning are at the forefront of that evolution.
 
Reach out to Christian on Twitter.