Purpose: This stretch is a foundational one for stretching the lower back, hamstrings, and calves. It's a great pose to use in your warm-up or cool-down.
Focus: Hamstring, calves, low back, flexibility, tension relief.
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Beginner-Foundation: Seated single le...
Purpose: This hamstring stretch allows skaters to work on stretching one hamstring at a time, so they can get deeper into the stretch. This stretch also flows well in a stretch sequence from low and high lunges
Focus: Hamstring flexibilty
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Foundation-Advanced: Pyramid pose fo...
Purpose: This stretch is a variation of the forward fold that also has a balance and stability element. The front hamstring is stretched while the back quad is strengthened and the back calf and ankle are stretched.
Focus: Hamstring flexibility, quad strength, ankle mobility, calf stretch, bala...
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Foundation-Advanced: Hips lifted sing...
Purpose: This version of the hamstring stretch keeps the hips elevated and square so that skaters can work maintaining the square position of their hips and shoulders like they will need in the forward splits. This is a good stretch to put in sequence for working on the forward splits and spirals...
