A new type of analysis creeping onto the amateur hockey scene is helping at least one coach identity future NHL athletes. Casey Cox trains elite-level athletes across college and professional hockey using biomechanics, which studies how a person’s muscles and bones work together.
Cox co-founded Sports Science Solutions, a training program that marries biomechanics with neurological analysis and nutrition to train athletes from teens through the elite level. He believes biomechanics is a key part of the future of training, since it can allow significant personalization of exercise.
He recently partnered with motion capture firm K-Motion to introduce its technology to hockey.