About The Wheel Speed Training System
What is WheelSpeed?
As the game has changed, the training has changed! That is why I stared to develop the Wheel Speed Training System! This system is all about unlocking your body’s full potential through training, nutrition, and recovery! I have been implementing this system with our hockey players for the past 3 years and the results have been amazing! That is why we are starting to document what we are doing and starting to bring it to the public. I am an open book! I want to help as many hockey players as I can get to that next level! Through this blog, I will be explaining the exact system I use with my hockey players so you can dial in your training and improve your game for the better at any given time!
Meet The Creator Of the Wheel Speed Training SYstem
Meet Michael Durkin
My Name is Michael Durkin, I am the owner and Head Strength and Conditioning coach Of Durkin Sports Performance located about 20 minutes outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in Moon Township Pa.
Growing up I lived next to an NHL referee so playing the sport myself was Inevitable. I played all my life and even played for a few years in college before injuries caught up to me my sophomore year of college. While in school I became the head strength and conditioning coach of a gym called Overtime Hockey where I worked for 3 years training hockey players of all ages from middle school all the way to the pros. I graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2017 with a degree in exercise science and got my start at the University of Pittsburgh working with all of their D1 Sports Teams.
In July of 2017, when overtime hockey went under, I had the opportunity to open my own facility and I took it. I quickly learned that College strength and conditioning was not for me. 3:30am wake ups, 14-hour days, all for under $45,000 a year... so I jumped at the opportunity to open the facility and we haven’t looked back!
Currently, we Train over 300 athletes a year from middle school all the way to the pros and have helped our athletes earn over $1,500,000 in athletic scholarships to date and that number is growing every year!