5 Things Goalies Should Do Daily

with James Wendland

James Wendland already made a big impact on the InGoal Magazine community — and goalies right up to the NHL — with his first five entries into the 5 Damn Things series (links below), helping them open, protect, strengthen and injury-proof their hips, feet, ankles, and even vestibular systems to improve tracking with hand-eye coordination exercises.

Naturally we jumped at a chance to get back in the gym with him in Kelowna and continue that training and health journey, even if it meant significantly downgrading our “fitness model.”

This time Wendland shares his “essentials of what a goalie should do every day.”

Wendland’s goalie-specific daily regimen suggestion includes:

1. Setting your hips with a yoga block or ball.
2. Setting the base of your skull, or occiput, and C1, C2 cervical vertebrae
3. Mobilizing your fibular heads (top of the calf bone) to free up ankle flexion.
4. Work talus bone in foot out of ankle joint to increase ability to access toe edge.
5. Using a Spike Mat to wake up ankles and feet and improve feel for blade edges.