Purpose: These advanced plank variations can help you mix up your workout and add a skating specific element into your plank exercises.
Focus: Plank variation, abdominal strength, core strength, obliques, hip flexor strength, glute strength, tight air position
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Advanced: Superman raise with a twist...
Purpose: This advanced version of superman helps you build a strong and stable back which can help with posture and injury prevention. Adding in the twist adds an element of spinal rotation that is helpful because figure skaters experience a lot of spinal rotation
Focus: Injury prevention, stabi...
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Advanced: High forward plank with leg...
Purpose: This forward plank with leg extension drill helps challenge and build core strength while also working on stability and toning the muscle. The pulses also help develop explosiveness in the leg muscles
Focus: Core, quads, leg extension, explosiveness, toning
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Elite: Side plank adductor air positi...
Purpose: This advanced side plank variation helps skaters train their inner thigh muscles, their adductors. These muscles are necessary for tight air position, and in this variation, skaters also practice the muscle memory for snapping into a tight air position.
Focus: Adductors, hip flexors, ob...
