Heidi Wells, England Over 50s Masters player and Chartered Physiotherapist, demonstrates how she prepares to play hockey
Using a simple session on her mat incorporating dynamic stretches to prepare and activate her muscles before hockey training and matches.
What are you...
I spent almost three months in isolation during 2021. Pre-trip quarantine, actual quarantine, the tournament itself - where you are chaperoned to the gym, or to the pitch, and then back to the hockey hotel again - and then...
A masters player who was saved by a defibrillator after suffering a cardiac arrest on the hockey pitch says everyone should know where one is.
Seven years ago this month, Roger Lomas was playing hockey at Abbeydale Sports Ground when...
Seven years ago this weekend, Roger Lomas was playing hockey at Abbeydale Sports Ground when he keeled over at half-time and suffered a cardiac arrest. As chairman of the squash side of the Yorkshire venue, Lomas had been involved...
Our nutrition expert continues his two-part series across discussing his top new year tips for you to become the very best hockey player
TOP PERFORMANCE IMPROVERS
Increase Your Carbohydrate Intake
Carbs provide you energy for training. If you don’t have enough carbohydrates, your performance will...
By Natalie Turner | Comment
It seems a distant memory watching Vets play on a late Saturday afternoon with my team-mates having to drink two fingers of snakebite and black every time someone who was wearing a tubigrip touched the...
This month our nutrition expert Dan Richardson provides a two-part article across this week, discussing his top new year tips for you to become the very best hockey player this year
Variety is Key
Eating the same foods all the time...
This month, our nutrition expert is here to guide you through the festive period, showing how to eat for hockey success whilst enjoying the festivities
First up… The ‘80/20 Rule’
The ‘80/20 Rule’, what even is it and why should you implement it during...
A Dutch big league player has revealed how her "desire to have children, play top sport and have a social career" was nearly jeopardised after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Daphne Voormolen, 30, was diagnosed in February but after participating...
Ron Dennis, the founder and chairman of Podium Analytics, says that sports injury in the youth is "strikingly overlooked" following its partnership with England Hockey and other major sports in a multi-million pound investment over the next decade.
The partnership...