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Steve Myrland

Is that functional training or a circus trick?

January 9, 2018/by Steve Myrland

An Vern always says, you shouldn’t try to mimic the game in training, you should try to distort it. During last month’s HMMR Media Hangout, another member asked me about how a coach knows when something has been distorted too much. The question got me thinking because this is an issue you see all around. At a certain point, if you distort things too much they start to get weird.


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Steve Myrland has worked as an athletic development coach at the youth, collegiate, and professional levels. He also a GAIN faculty member and was formerly the strength and conditioning coach at the NHL’s San Jose Sharks and the University of Wisconsin.

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