training without weights

[Marzola]

My season has barely even started and i'm already thinking about training during the off season. I'm going to be a junior next year and i realized that once the seniors on my team graduate, there will be no one to set the standards during preseason conditioning, so i want to be the person who sets the standards next year. Also being in better shape will help my game a ton (i'm a defenseman).


I'm going to have a lot of free time this summer (no school or job) so i want to get into good shape for next season. Over the summer I won't have access to any weights. I know most of the basic stuff i can do, such as running distance, sprints, pushups, crunches, wall sits. I'm just wondering if there are any drills you guys can recomend that I can do by myself that would make me a better player on the field in terms of speed, stength, endurane, and also different exercises I can do with out weights so I can have a variety of things to do and things I can do on rainy days (all I have is a treadmill). I want to be in as good shape as I can be coming into next year. Anything you guys can recomend would be great.

[Hackstall]

Check your local buy sell newspaper or classifieds, you can probably pick up some weights for dirt cheap. Ask around...there is all kinds of stuff lying around collecting dust in garages.

Check out calisthenics. Look around on the internet. They are the types of strength building and endurance exercises that groups like the Marines do when they are deployed in places where they have no access to weights.

[franks2089]

pull ups, plankers

[fallingupstairs]

run alot and for a long time with 2 milkjugs full of water

[Longest]

www.mattfurey.com

Dan

[roycegracie47]

Use your own body weight by doing certain exercises as slow as you can such as push-ups or squats. the slower you go, the greater the resistance your own body weight will put on yourself.