Build a Body You Trust.

So had I.

In fact, I spent almost seven years chasing answers.

And I wasn’t looking for a slightly better warm-up.

I was trying to figure out what the hell had happened to my body.

I’d broken my leg.

Gone through two surgeries.

Spent months going back and forth through rehab.

Eventually lost almost all of the internal rotation in my hips.

My lower back and SI joint were constantly compensating.

And I was eventually told that hip replacements would likely be in my future.

I was still a professional hockey player.

I was doing everything I thought I was supposed to do.

And some of it absolutely helped.

But too often, I found myself in the same cycle:

I didn’t want to become better at managing my body.

I wanted to understand how to rebuild it.

After almost seven years of searching, I bought a mobility membership from a coach online.

I figured: what the hell. I’ve tried everything else.

Then I opened it. And started seeing techniques I’d never done before.

That honestly blew my mind.

After seven years of rehab, training, treatment and trying every mobility routine I could find… how was I still seeing completely new ways of training my joints?

But what really changed everything wasn’t simply that the techniques were new.

They made sense.

For the first time, mobility wasn’t: “This feels tight, so stretch it.”

Suddenly mobility wasn’t something I did for ten minutes before training.

It became part of how I trained.

After two years of applying these principles, I put up back-to-back 80+ point seasons and in both had 40+ goals.

But those numbers aren’t actually the part of the story I remember most.

It’s one game. The final game of that second season.

I dominated.

But after the game, I wasn’t sitting there thinking about the points.

I vividly remember sitting in my stall in the dressing room thinking:

Everything had felt effortless.

I felt insanely stable going into puck battles.

I could move wherever I wanted. I could do what I wanted with the puck.

I wasn’t thinking about my hips. I wasn’t worrying about my back. I wasn’t wondering whether my body was going to cooperate.

For the first time in years… I felt like I was 18 again. Free. Athletic. Confident. Just playing hockey.

And sitting in that stall, another thought hit me: how many other hockey players need this?

Every dressing room I’d ever been in had guys dealing with something. A hip. A groin. A back. An ankle. A shoulder.

Every hockey player has something.

And somewhere along the way, we start accepting that managing our bodies is simply part of playing.

But I had just experienced what it felt like to get that freedom back.

And I knew I wanted to help other athletes experience it too.

That’s one of the reasons Hood Athletic Edge exists today.

That’s the problem with most workout libraries.

Even if they contain great exercises… you still have to figure out: What should I do? Why should I do it? Where should I begin?

That’s why we built the Interactive Mobility Guide.

Tell it what’s going on.

The Guide asks focused follow-up questions and helps direct you toward relevant resources inside the Hood Athletic Edge platform.

It understands how our training libraries are organized, what different workouts target, their difficulty, their purpose and where they fit within the system.

Instead of endlessly scrolling through hundreds of workouts… you have a place to begin.

The platform gives you the tools. The Guide helps you choose the right tool.

This was important to me.

Because I don’t want you joining Hood Athletic Edge, seeing hundreds of options… and immediately having to guess again.

So for our first 100 members: your first 90 days can already be mapped out.

Instead of collecting random hip exercises… follow a progression.

Learn the system. Understand why you’re doing what you’re doing. Build consistency. Give your body enough time to adapt.

The rest of the Mobility Membership remains available whenever you need it.

But if your hips are where you want to begin… your roadmap is already waiting for you.

It’s actually the opposite.

I don’t want you thinking about your hips every time you skate.

I don’t want you wondering whether your back is going to tighten up.

I don’t want you collecting hundreds of mobility exercises because you’re constantly trying to fix something.

The goal is to give you the education, tools and training to take greater ownership of your body…

So eventually… you don’t have to think about it.

Your brain decides what it wants to do… and your body lets you do it.

That’s the feeling I finally got back.

And that’s what I want Hood Athletic Edge to help more athletes build.