Purpose: Add in some explosive quick twitch muscle fiber development and oblique work into your normal forward plank..
Focus: Core strength, quick twitch, plyometric, obliques
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Elite: Bird dog lat pulls on wobble d...
Purpose: Skaters get additional benefits from this bird dog variation: increased difficulty with the balance element and upper body strengthening with the lat pull
Focus: Neutral spine, lats, stability, posture, core strength, injury prevention -
Advanced: hollow body situp demonstra...
This situp variation starts in a hollow body position and comes up into a situp while the feet remain off the floor.
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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...
