Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to use the added resistance to build strength and stability specifically for the muscles needed in the lutz and work on their control as they reach back. This exercise will help skaters to feel more control with their skating leg as they reach back allowin...

Purpose: This warm-up drill will help skaters to activate key muscle groups before on or off-ice training. It will also help skaters work on the transfer or weight from their front foot to back foot snapping into a hip twist for their lutz. Skaters can use the walley to help work on counter rotat...

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability in their skating leg and strength in their free leg with the lutz reach back.

Focus: Lutz entry, lutz picking, lutz reach-back, lutz take-off, stability, balance, free leg strength

Purpose: This drill works on the coordination and position of the free leg and the arms in the lutz reach back to picking phase.

Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, arm position, free leg position, timing and rhythm

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the strength of their skating leg's outside edge pull back during the picking phase into the follow-through and transfer of the lutz jump

Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, lutz take-off, lutz follow-through, skating side leg, outside edge, stability,...

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability of their skating leg on the picking and take-off phase of the lutz jump.

Focus: Standing leg stability, free leg position, free hip position, reach back, upper body position