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Bell jump: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: This is a great exercise for skaters to add to their warm-up. It warms up key muscles for jumping, helps to practice spacial awareness and get their core firing. This exercise also helps skaters to practice their axel take-off. Skaters should try to do 5-6 of these in a row down the floo...
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Forward and backward skips: Beginner-Elite
Purpose: Skaters can use this exercise in their warm-up to warm-up hips, knees and ankles. Practice both forwards and backwards down the floor pumping arms back and forward with the knee to simulate the axel take-off on the ice.
Focus: hip, knee, and ankle extension; power, roll up to the toe, co... -
Across the floor air position ankle clicks: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: This is a great exercise for skaters to add to their warm-up. Skaters should complete exercise across the floor alternating feet and always getting to their air position (either snapping behind or in front). This exercise will help to warm-up hips, knees and ankles, and will also allow s...
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360 Front split hold sequence: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: Skaters should be practicing splits on a regular basis. This 360 split stretch will help deepen the stretch in each hold helping skaters hit better spirals, beillmanns, and other field moves. Skaters should aim to hold each position at least 30 seconds.
Focus: Hamstring flexibility, quad... -
Standing incline pigeon hold: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: Get into a deeper hip stretch with this standing pigeon hold. This exercise is great for those that sit a lot and for those who aren't challenge by the resting pigeon pose.
Focus: External hip rotatation, turnout, hip flexibilty, low back flexibillity, back tension relief. -
Superman upper back and shoulder stretch: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: Skaters can use the wall and ground to get a deep stretch in their upper back and shoulders. Skaters should hold this stretch for at least 30 seconds and their body relax into it. Shoulder flexibility is important for skills like the biellmann and any catch spirals or spins, as well as i...
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Knee bridge with backbend and arm movement: Advanced
Purpose: This exercise will help skaters improve their upper back flexibility while maintaining a similar position to the layback and haircutter to help mimic the position on the ice.
Focus: core control, upper back flexibility, glute strength. -
Bridge pose with hand movement progression: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: Skaters can use this exercise to open their upper body and help grab their beillmann easier.
Focus: upper back flexibility, beillmann, core strength, glute strength -
Y-stand hamstring twist and hold: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: Skaters can use this stretch to open up their hips and improve their hamstring flexibility for a better Y-stand position.
Focus: Hamstring flexibility, external hip rotation, hip flexibility, y-stand. -
Layback wall push-off with forward fold: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This stretch is a balanced approach to help skaters improve their back and shoulder flexibility while maintaining a layback hold and also work on hamstring flexibility in the same sequence. Use the wall to help arch your back and keeps your hips stacked over your ankles and hold each pos...
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Lower body layback extensions: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to stabilize skating leg and build glute & hip strength to maintain a layback position.
Focus: layback spin, hip stability, glute strength. -
Axel box jump: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This is an axel drill that will help skaters to increase jump height, improve spacial awareness in rotation jumping up to an increased height and work on stability coming down from increased height.
Focus: axel, take-off power, stability, landing, jump height. -
Toe loop combo box jump: Foundation-Advanced
Purpose: This figure skating specific box jump will help skaters with their toe loop combos by practicing spacial awareness in rotation coming down from an increased height and taking off again and help to increase jump height.
Focus: upper body check, hip, knee and ankle extension, glute stabili... -
Lower body banded landing position extensions: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: This exercise builds hip stability for stroking and the landing position, so that skaters can maintain a stronger position on their skating leg, while their free leg moves
Focus: core, knee bend, glute activation, hip activation, glute strength, hip strength. -
Two foot maximum rotation workout: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This class dives into upper and lower body exercises to help improve the quick twitch movements to help snap into their jumps and improve alignment on the take-off to help improve rotation speed over the axis.
Focus: quick twitch, technique, axis, band exercises, max rotation. -
Dynamic air position core exercise: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This exercise builds core strength to help with the movement from a skaters h-position into air position developing muscle memory and the core strength needed to move from one position to the other.
Focus: core, h-position, air position. -
Single leg 1/4 turn snap box jumps: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This box jump exercise helps to improve jump height for the axel and salchow and works on quick twich muscles to get into the skaters air position.
Focus: upper body check, hip, knee and ankle extension, glute stability, landing, spacial awareness, explosive power. -
Two foot plyo jump to 1/4 turn step down: Foundation-Advanced
Purpose: This plyometric exercise helps to improve jump height and work on spacial awareness while in rotation.
Focus: upper body check, hip, knee and ankle extension, glute stability, landing, spacial awareness, explosive power. -
Single leg 1/2 turn loop box jumps: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This box jump exercise helps to improve jump height for the loop and helps work on the quickness and stability of landing.
Focus: hip, knee and ankle extension, glute stability, landing, spacial awareness, explosive power, loop. -
Single leg spiral back extensions: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to improve their back strength, helping them maintain a better spiral and camel position. Skaters can use anything that will elevate their foot if they don't have a plyo box/stool.
Focus: back strength, spiral, camel spin, glute stability, glute strength -
Two foot 1/4 turn plyo jump: Foundation-Advanced
Purpose: This drill will help skaters to increase jump height, improve spacial awareness in rotation jumping up to an increased height and work on stability coming down from increased height.
Focus: upper body check, hip, knee and ankle extension, glute stability, landing -
Forward Glide and Pushes: Beginner
Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can learn to go from a standstill to taking pushes.
Focus: balance, blade pressure, core strength. -
Stroking exercise with free leg pulse and upper body resistance: Advanced
Purpose: This is a compound exercise that challenges skaters to balance in a deep knee bend while pulsing their free leg, keeping their core still while controlling upper body movement.
Focus: hip activation, glute activation, quad activation, lat activation, stability, glute, upper body strength... -
Forward inside c-step demonstration: Beginner-Advanced
Purpose: Skaters can practice their c-step on a curve using the blue line as reference to stay on the circle.
Focus: basic technique, body lean, foot placement, upper body position.