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Conditioning Drills

Stop and Start 1 vs. 1
1 on 1, Conditioning Drills, Forward Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This is a good 1 on 1 battle drill.  Think about using this drill towards the end of practice for conditioning as players tend to push themselves more when competition is introduced.  To set up place four lines on the blue line as shown in the diagram. Place a coach in the center of the ice on each blue line with a bunch of pucks.

3 Puck Break Away Races
Conditioning Drills, Games, Ice Hockey Drills

This is a fun ice hockey drill that will also give your players some conditioning as well. It can be done with 4 or five pucks as well if you really need to get your team in shape. Give your players a time limit that will make sure they go full speed. You can also make it interesting when you make the loser of each round keep going until they win. Once they win they are done with conditioning. Keeping things competitive and giving them something to compete for will fire up the intensity.

1 on 0 with Backchecker
Backcheck Drills, Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This ice hockey drill is good for straight away speed and it is a great aneorobic workout. It is also emphasizes stopping and backchecking. The drill starts as the first two players skate full speed down the ice on a 1 on 0 and shoot with their feet moving. After the shot they stop, and backcheck against the next player in line who starts when the shot is taken.

Russian Circles
Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Overspeed, Skating Drills

The focus of this drill is SPEED! This drill allows players to move their feet much faster than going all the way around the circle. It is a good drill for Warm-Ups, Skating Drills, or Conditioning Drills. If players are advanced enough, you can try incorporating pucks and going backwards.

Christmas Tree Conditioning
Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This is tough conditioning drill that is great for the holidays :) I recommend this for the end of practice because the middle of the ice gets chewed up.

Three Puck Conditioning
Conditioning Drills, Half Ice Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This conditioning drill can be run out of both ends so players are not standing around too much. It seems to work best with a 1:3 work to rest ratio so 3 players in each line is ideal.  A nice variation of this drill is to set one puck on the near blue line, one on the center red line, and one at the far blue line. 

Iron Cross #1
Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This is a great  drill for the days you work on penalty killing.  Not only is this a conditioning drill, but it is a drill that focuses on one of the best habits, Stopping and Starting.  The stopping and starting habit is critical to having a great penalty kill.  In this drill the players are always facing forwards.  The skate to the center dot, stop, and side step while facing forwards to the outside hash marks, stop, side step back to the center dot, stop, skate forward to

Iron Cross #2
Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This is a KILLER! Save towards the end of practice because it chews up the ice pretty well.  One rep will usually do it for most teams because as player I can tell you that your legs are shot after this drill. It is basically the same as the first, but once the player reaches the starting point they stop and skate forwards to the far zone and do the same thing on that face off dot.

Give & Go Conditioning II
Conditioning Drills, Half Ice Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Shooting Drills

I think at times it is important to keep the pucks out when it comes time for conditioning.

Yo Yo Transition Skating
Conditioning Drills, Defense Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Skating Drills

Double Pass Backcheck
Backcheck Drills, Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

To set up this drill, place two lines of players on opposite blue lines.  On the whistle, P1 makes a pass to the yellow coach and skates to the middle of the ice to receive the pass back from the coach.  At center ice P1 makes another give & go with P2 and skates in for a shot from the high slot.  After the shot, P1 stops and backchecks against P2.  P2, after making the pass back to P1, starts the same thing by making a pass to the orange coach.

Clear Conditioning
Conditioning Drills, Goalie Drills

This is a conditioning drill for goalies. The emphasis on this drill is the quickness in which the goalie can get to the puck and clear it. This situation happens so many times in games and it is crucial that goalies have confidence to go get the puck and be aggressive. Of course in games the goalie can have no hesitation. When clearing the puck, set up a target that you would like them to pass the puck to such as the red line or far blue line.

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