Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens added regular yoga practice to his offseason routine in 2015, and Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers said this summer he works with a yoga instructor twice a week.
Ryan Miller, who played for the Anaheim Ducks last season, said he practices yoga each summer to help his posture recover from position-specific work during the season. Tim Thomas credited yoga for helping him win the first Vezina Trophy for the first time in 2009 with the Boston Bruins despite a hip injury that eventually required surgically. Goalies finding benefit in yoga isn't new. I think that checks all the boxes for goaltending." The flexibility and there's a lot of focus involved, strength and then some balance as well. "Yoga is pretty relevant when it comes to all the things you need to touch on to keep fit as a goalie.
I'll have less time for it once the season starts, so getting it in while I can," said Driedger, who was 7-2-1 with a. "I've actually been ramping up the yoga of late. With reduced access to his usual workouts, Driedger spent more time practicing yoga and has stuck with it even as those other options opened up again.
I'm still doing my foundational things - in the gym five days a week, on the ice a couple days - but I think adding these little things here and there I think can make the difference in the long run and help me have a longer career."įlorida Panthers goalie Chris Driedger feels similarly about yoga after embracing it when the NHL paused the 2019-20 between March 12 due to concerns over the Coronavirus. If you've ever done yoga - and I'm a huge proponent of yoga - you get into that flow state where time melts away and it feels like you've been there for a couple seconds and an hour and a half is gone. "I always thought there'd be a lot of benefit and crossover as a goaltender, so she booked me a class and said, 'You better be there,'" said Delia, who will compete with Malcolm Subban and Kevin Lankinen for the No.1 job in Chicago this season. But it took a push from his partner, Ava Lammers, to finally get him into a class this summer. "Having that ability to be flexible and also powerful, I feel like that's something that contributes to a long career."ĭelia was already interested in Pilates, which focuses on core strength, stability and muscle control emphasizing proper postural alignment, sometimes using a machine called a Reformer. "If my son decides to become a goalie, I'm going to have him in Pilates as soon as he can and I'm going to have him in gymnastics, just to make him a good athlete," Delia said. The 26-year-old isn't alone though yoga has increasingly become a staple for goalies during the past decade, many have turned to other seemingly related body-control disciplines like Pilates, ELDOA and even Barre ballet-style workouts in the past year. Delia added Pilates as part of an offseason training plan that already included yoga and quickly became a believer in benefits that he sees as specifically related to stopping pucks.
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