3 Key Body Parts Goalies Neglect To Stretch (but shouldn’t)
You and your groins – you are all about your groins, stretch, stretch, stretch! But there are lots of other areas that have a huge impact on your performance that you absolutely forget, so I am going to give you three stretches that you must complete every time you even think about stretching your groins. […]
Activation Drill to Help Decrease Your Hip Mobility Deficit
This exercise will highlight the mobility deficit in your hip flexors. In fact, I bet if you are one of those players who always feels tight in the front of your hip, that you will not be able to successfully do this mobility/activation drill. Here is exactly how to do it… Key Points: Keep […]
Revealing Your Mobility Deficit
If you are not familiar with the term “Mobility Deficit”, then you better read on and watch the video. Then do the test yourself. Remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that I would be going with a weekly theme for my articles (trying it out at least), well there were some good suggestions and […]
Stabilize And Mobilize Your Hip (warning hip cramping likely ;))
Sorry in advance – you will very likely get a hip cramp and that is okay – it just means that you are trying to use a synergistic muscle rather than the prime mover. So what you are feeling could very well be your TFL getting tied into a knot. If (when) that cramp sets […]
NEW! Mobility Exercise For Goalies
I am going to GUARANTEE that less than 1% of you have ever even SEEN this hip mobility exercise before AND of the less than 1% of you who have seen it before, I guarantee that less than 1% of you have ever even TRIED it…until today. This exercise is a hip mobility exercise – […]
The CP Lower Body Injury
Carey Price’s lower body injury… I honestly have no idea what Carey Price’s injury is or how he sustained it. And I won’t be so bold as to suggest that all injuries are preventable; in hindsight that may be the case, but not in real-time. Sometimes s#@t happens… Let’s hope he gets back on track […]
How goalies get deeper splits
I took to social media a couple weeks ago asking the goalies in the Twittersphere (@goalietraining if you want to follow) and on Facebook what they wanted me to shoot a video on – how to get deeper splits or a wider butterfly flare. They spoke loud and clear and the splits won (I’m not surprised). So […]
Deeper Splits & Wider Butterfly Flare
So the UGT Live 2015 was held this past weekend in London, ON and what an awesome time it was! The day started with a 7:30am warm up at the rink followed by a great on-ice session with Jason VanSpronsen and Future Pro Goaltending. Then we took the party on the road to the new […]
Safe Stretches For Young Goalies
I have a detailed video for you today showing seven stretches for young hockey goalies and I will give that to you in a second, but first, how did your May 2-4 weekend go if you have such a thing? It is actually Victoria Day – a celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday which was May […]
How Hockey Goalies Get a Better Splits.
To many hockey goalies the holy grail of flexibility is the splits. So it is not odd that I get several emails every month asking, “What stretch will let me do the splits?” If only it were that easy my friends. There are at least three things limiting any goalie from doing the splits.