Basic Tips to be a Great Hockey Goalie
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Ice Hockey Goalie is one of the hardest positions to play in sports. As a goaltender for the defending ECAC Northeast Champion Nichols College Bison, here are seven tips to help you reach your greatest potential:
- Stretching/Pregame – before every practice or game you should always get a good stretch in.
- Warm-up shots – after you are stretched, slowly start moving around taking some warm-up shots.
- Check your angles – this is very easy for you to do. While on the ice and in net, choose markers for yourself to keep your angles correct.
- Communication – goalies should be the loudest on the ice. Always talk with your defenseman and tell them if there are any fore checkers coming at them.
- Ready Position – never be too relaxed on the ice.
- Freeze the puck – do not hesitate to freeze the puck.
- Never get down on yourself – if you give up a goal, you have to forget about it.
Try the following hockey goalie exercises designed to improve your muscular endurance.
- Wide Outs - builds endurance in your legs and allows you to maintain your perfect ready position.
- Stiff Legged Deadlift and Hold - one of my favourite hockey goalie exercises because it builds muscular endurance in your back extensors, glutes and hamstrings to decrease your back fatigue throughout the game.
- Squat and hold - a variation on the classic wall sit to build fatigue resistant quads.
So there you have three hockey goalie exercises designed to build some bombproof legs that will keep you going strong through the third period and beyond.
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