Fridley Native Jarod Palmer Tells His Hockey Speed Secret

Fridley native Jarod Palmer of the Minnesota Wild recently wrote an article for HowToHockey.com: "How to Gain On-Ice Speed with Off-Ice Training."

Here is an excerpt:

I have always been a hockey player with average speed. As a professional athlete, I am always looking to improve my skill set, especially in finding my way “in” to the NHL. Last season, my coach sat me down and asked me what I thought was keeping me from playing in the NHL. After a few wrong guesses, he told me that my speed, or lack there of, was not at the NHL level. Despite the amount of training I had done the summer before my rookie year, I had to agree with my coach; I was not fast. There was only one answer…I must have been training wrong. I began my quest to successfully build speed in the following summer. I changed my training technique and became stronger, faster, and sturdier on my feet than ever before. Here is how I did it.

See Palmer's step-by-step tips here.

Palmer has been out with a concussion since the early part of the season, when he and scored his first NHL goal.