Purpose: This pose, called warrior 1 in yoga, opens your chest, hip flexors, and the front of your body. It also strengthens your glutes, quads, hamstrings, core, and shoulders, so it is great for building strength and flexibility at the same time.
Focus: warrior 1, yoga, hip flexors, chest opener, spinal elongation, balance, stability, core strength.
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Advanced-Elite: Cossack squat forward...
Purpose: Cossack squats are great exercises for building hip mobility, ankle mobility, and glute, quad, and hamstring strength. This pose is great for skaters who are struggling with the hip mobility needed for single leg squats
Focus: Hip mobility, ankle mobility, adductor stretch, external rot...
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice supporte...
Purpose: This exercise is a great way to build strength and flexibilty in the hamstring muscle, and is a good dynamic stretch for warming up before a static hamstring stretch.
Focus: Dynamic flexibility, warm-up, hamstring flexibility, glute strength, spirals
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice supporte...
Purpose: Engage your quads and glutes in this curtsy lunge before kicking to the side in a Y position. This exercise helps build dynamic flexibility for the Y-stand
Focus: Dynamic flexibility, lower body strength, glute strength, quad strength, balance, mobility, y-stand, hamstring flexibility
