Purpose: This exercise challenges a skater to maintain good posture and engagement through their core and pelvic floor during hip flexion.
Focus: Posture, pelvic floor engagement, neutral spine, back injury prevention, hollow body position
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Advanced: Forearm side plank top leg ...
Purpose: This exercise is a progression of a side plank and and a side lying leg lift.
Focus: Hip abductors, obliques, transversus abdominus, TFL, glutes, back injury prevention
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Foundation-Advanced: Supine unilatera...
Purpose: This exercise helps skaters learn how to engage their deep core muscles and pelvic floor so that they are not compensating form or using their lower back.
Focus: Deep core strength, pelvic floor, back injury prevention, hip stability, external rotation
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Advanced: Bird dog knee tap variation...
Purpose: This variation of bird dog is more advanced and helps skaters continue to build and improve cross-body awarenes and anti-extension
Focus: Core strength, core stability, back injury prevention, Injury prevention, bird dog variation, anti-extension, cross-body awareness
