What is your criteria for choosing your off-ice training footwear? Colour? Number of cushie air pillows that are visible? Whatever shoes Sidney is wearing?
Continue Reading →Boosting you hip flexibility requires an understanding that your muscles work as a system. Maria Mountin provides some tips – and a video – on improving hip flexibility.
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Regular InGoal Columnist Maria Mountain is an expert trainer of hockey players, including Stanley Cup Champions. Learn more about working with her at www.hockeytrainingpro.com
Let me start by saying I love my Mom, she is great and was [...]
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You can be either a goalie or a circus clown – not both!
I had an email from a fellow trainer who works with hockey players asking me to clarify the fad of standing on a stability ball for training hockey players. He just did not [...]
Continue Reading →Do you ever talk yourself out of becoming better or achieving your goals? Why do we do that? I almost did that to myself on Saturday. I had a lot of work to get done, but I wanted to get out for a cross-country ski (one of my goals is to get out for a [...]
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Around Christmas time I wrote a few articles about how some goalies and trainers are trying to do the right thing. They are using plyometric training to try and improve their speed and power. The problem is they are using the plyometrics in [...]
Continue Reading →Video: how to tell difference between injury and serious problem
I read InGoal Magazine’s recent article about Niklas Backstrom’s hip injury and the historic and medical link between butterfly goalies and hip surgery with great interest.
Unlike many strength and conditioning coaches, I started working with athletes from an injury prevention, or [...]
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