Purpose: This all encompassing drill will help skaters build a strong core while learning how to isolate the upper body as the leg comes behind and the knee drives through as the body rotates. Skaters should feel the upper body position maintained in a forward plank as the lower body and torso ro...

Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to build strength and stability in their hips and glutes for more controlled movement on the ice. This exercise is an added core challenge above the standard hydrant exercise. Skaters should try to see minimal movement with leg and hip that is on the groun...

Purpose: This full-body exercise works a skaters' lower body in the side lunge and upper body with the overhead press. The slider is especially helpful for skaters to build inner thigh strength. By pressing into the slider as they squeeze back into a standing position, skaters can strengthen thei...

Purpose: This exercise challenges a skater to keep their core engaged and strong while exerting a pull force with their upper body to strengthen primarily their lats.

Focus: Core strength, lats, abdominals, biceps, shoulders, back strength, stability, air position

Purpose: In this video, Signe demonstrates her five favorite exercises to do with a yoga ball. These exercises include lower body exercises, core exercises, and stability exercises. A yoga ball is a great piece of equipment because it adds in an element of instability into exercises that make it ...

Purpose: This pushup variation increasees the difficulty because skaters have to work harder to stabilize their hand that is on the bosu as they lower down and push up into the pushup.

Focus: Chest strength, pectorals,deltoids, arm strength, tricpes, biceps, back strength, latissimus dorsi, ere...

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...