Hi there sports fans this is Thomas Soar.

As the weeks roll on, waking up at 6am for our on ice sessions is getting slightly tougher. However we are still going strong, with everyone working hard on and off the ice.

Yesterday was a pretty unique day. Bas Gohar (sports psychologist) held a talk for us to improve our mental skills for keeping our cool (Wardy paid special attention to this) on the ice, visualising what we're going to do and also logging what we ate and how we slept before games.

The evening brought us a Yoga session held by Barb (Head of Kitchen at the ranch). The objective was to lengthen muscles to reduce chance of injury with stretches, also to strengthen our core, which is key in order to be a strong, explosive hockey player. The session was quite surreal at times, having sweat dripping and burning abs, to being totally relaxed and dry of sweat just two minutes after her cool down. Many thanks to Barb for running the session as we all enjoyed it (i'm sure the boys will agree).

It's back to routine today with our coaching sessions and upper body workout this afternoon.

Thankyou to my Dad and Corey who have both given me this fantastic opportunity to progress in hockey.

Keep following! Thanks, Soarsy.