Lower Body Strength

Lower Body Strength

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Lower Body Strength
  • Advanced-Elite: Three cone single leg Romanian deadlift ball tap down exercise

    Episode 5

    Purpose: This exercise is great for skaters to work on their hamstring strength and stability at different angles. This helps skaters with their overall balance and control on the ice.

    Focus: Hamstring strength, injury prevention, balance, stability, spinal rotation

  • Advanced-Elite: Single leg hamstring bridge exercise

    Episode 4

    Purpose: This exercise uses a pressing force to work the glutes and hamstrings. Doing it single legged helps skaters work on unilateral strength to help balance out a weaker leg.

    Focus: Hamstring strength, hamstring press, glute strength, unilateral strength

  • Advanced: Single leg hamstring press on box exercise

    Episode 3

    Purpose: This hamstring press is a more difficult version of a glute bridge that engages more of the hamstrings and needs more explosive power to lift all the way up

    Focus: Single leg strength, hamstrings, glutes, core, explosive power

  • Foundation: Single leg Romanian deadlift exercise

    Episode 2

    Purpose: This single leg Romanian deadlift challenges a skater's balance and stability while engaging their posterior lower body strength

    Focus: Balance, stabiltiy, hip extension, hamstrings, glutes, erector spinae, core strength

  • Advanced: Off-ice hamstring activation contraction with pilates ball exercise

    Episode 1

    Purpose: This exercise is a great muscle activation and can be used as a warm-up. The hamstrings are often under-used by figure skaters as they tend to be more quad dominant, which can cause issues. This exercise helps them feel how to contract the hamstrings.
    Focus: Muscle activation, hamstring...