The purpose of these elastic band exercise project was to provide ice hockey coaches and players with a tool that addresses hockey strength training efficiently, diversely and specifically, regardless of the training location. Further, the idea of elastic bands is to provide a safe and easy way for young athletes to start strength training
The aim of the project was not to produce something completely new, rather to modify existing to make them more sport specific and to come up with new focused on working muscles and muscle groups that are important for hockey players. In addition the descriptions were made clear so that ice hockey coaches could easily understand them. Another goal of the project was to provide a safe, easy-to-use
and effective training tool that can be used anywhere by individual ice hockey players, especially youth players, or by entire ice hockey teams to work on strength training.specifically