Purpose: This very challenging exercise helps skaters build stability and control during spinal rotation, which is a movement that happens in most figure skating skills, including air position.
Focus: Injury prevention, stability, posture, alignment, core strength, back strength
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice pre-trai...
Purpose: This video is a follow-along 12 minute warm-up to use before an on or off-ice training session, workout, or competition. Warming up is very important for figure skaters as it helps initiate blood flow to the muscles and prevent injuries. This warm-up includes a variety of exercises desig...
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[Adult] Beginner-Foundation: How to p...
Purpose: Adults skaters are a growing community in figure skating. It is important to pay attention to the off-ice component of training for adults to help prevent unnecessary injuries. Including a proper warm up, workout routine and cool down is key to longevity in the sport of figure skating....
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Advanced: Off-ice front foot elevated...
Purpose: This variation of a forward lunge stretch, with the foot elevated, helps skaters get a deeper stretch in their hip flexor and quad of the back leg. It also increases the intensity of activation of the quads and glutes in the front leg, making it a good exercise for warm-up as well.
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