Purpose: This challenging exercise can help skaters work on their balance and strength in their standing leg, the leg strength for the reach back in the free leg, and overall core strength and stability to maintain the position.
Focus: Balance, stability, injury prevention, ankle strength, flip reach back, flip picking phase, hamstring strength, quad strength, balance training
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Foundation-Elite: Improving the axel ...
Purpose: This circuit will help improve your strength in the glute medius, minimus and maximus muscles in order to help better align your axel take-off and activate the muscles needed to perform a stable jump.
Focus: Glute activation, gluteus minimus, gluteus maximus, axel take-off, axel follow-...
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Beginner-Foundation: Introduction to ...
Purpose: This video introduces skaters to the lunge exercise. The trainer explains why it is a good exercise for skaters to use in their off-ice training, some important alignment and technique pointers to keep in mind, and variations and progressions .
Focus: Hamstring strength, quad strength, ... -
Elite: Weighted reverse lunge to step...
Purpose: This exercise intensely works the quads in the lunge and the hamstrings on the step up. Using a weight helps overload the muscle for strength gain. This exercise can be used to improve strength of the take-off leg of an axel.
Focus: Strength gain, lower body strength, hamstrings, glutes...
