Purpose: This drill helps skaters to work on the coordination of their reach back, pick and upper body rotation for the take-off. Practicing this will help skaters to utilize their upper body to help pull through on the take-off, while maintaining a straight forward head position until they are r...

Purpose: This video demonstrates the proper technique of the setup to landing of a waltz jump across the floor. Skaters can add this to their warm-up prior to getting on the ice as part of their greater warm-up. Doing jumps on the floor focusing on proper technique will help transfer these habits...

Purpose: This warm-up drills helps to stretch skaters' muscles prior to on-ice and off-ice training while adding a skating specific Y-stand and grab hold to help warm up those particular muscles and work on their flexibility as part of the warm-up. Skaters should aim for 10 reps of this sequence....

Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to feel a good dynamic stretch in their hamstrings and movement up through their torso into their upper body. Skaters can do 10 reps as part of their greater warm-up
Focus: warm-up, hamstring stretch, back and core activation, back and core stretch

Purpose: This warm-up drill is a sport specific combination of dynamic stretches and muscle activation for hamstrings, hips, quads, calves, and core
Focus: hamstring, glute, quad activation, core and back stretch, lunge, hip turnouts, air position

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: Doing this exercise helps skaters to get the feel of kicking their feet first in the cartwheel and then similarly again in the butterfly. Skaters should try to swoop their body down and then feel their upper body fly up in an arch as their legs kick one after the other. Skaters should fe...

Purpose: This warm-up drill is a full body muscle activation exercise that will wake up skaters' core as they rotate and lift their leg. Skaters can aim to do 5 on each side as part of their greater warm-up. Skaters should tuck their hips under and tighten core as they move up and down in their p...

Purpose: Skaters should add bounding to their warm-up as a heart rate boosting drill and to work on the quickness and explosive power. Skaters should try to be quick and light on their feet, trying not to heel strike.
Focus: heart rate boosting, timing, rhythm, power

Purpose: This drill is a good exercise to add to skaters warm-up as it aims to get them working their hips, knees and ankles working together and get fully extended as they reach the peak of the donkey kick. This drill helps skaters to work on explosive power, timing and coordination.
Focus: exp...