Warm up games in hockey not only serve as an introduction to any good training, but they are essential to any practice session because they are a great way of preventing injury to your players by making sure their muscles are prepared for the physical strain of training.
These hockey warm up drills and games are also a fun way of getting your players switched on and thinking about the training and building or maintaining fitness. They can be used equally at the start of a training or towards the end as a cool down.
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