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 flexibilty at the same time. The back bend challenges your stability and builds back strength and flexibility
Focus: Back flexibilty, back bend, warrior 1, yoga, hip flexors, chest opener, spinal elongation, balance, stability, core strength
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Beginner-Elite: Difference between fl...
Purpose: This video explains the difference between flexibility and mobility and why it matters for skaters. Abby then demonstrates some exercises to help with flexibility and mobility for the Y-stand.
Focus: Flexibility, mobility, range of motion, strength training, dynamic stretches, balance,...
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Advanced-Elite: 90-90 lift external r...
Purpose: This variation of 90-90 has skaters engage their glutes and hip flexors to lift their hips off the ground. This is great for training glute engagement and hip flexor engagement and working on external hip rotation.
Focus: External hip rotation, glute engagement, hip flexor engagement, a...
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Beginner-Foundation: Downward facing ...
Purpose: Downward dog is a great pose to stretch out the calves and ankles, which can get quite tight after a skating session. Peddling the feet by lifting one and then the other is a good way to get a deeper stretch through each calf muscle.
Focus: Calf stretch, hamstring stretch, whole body ...
