Recently Added
Stay up to date with the latest FLEXAFIT drills, tutorials, and specialty workouts. This section features all newly uploaded videos—so you can easily find fresh content, explore new drills, and keep your off-ice training consistent and engaging.
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Beginner-Foundation: Introduction to jumpe rope beginning progressions tutorial
Purpose: This video teaches skaters how to jump rope from scratch. Skipping is such an important skill for figure skaters because it's a great warm-up for ankles, and great for coordination and building good timing and rhythm. This video introduces jump rope from the very beginning all the way up...
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Advanced-Elite: Off-ice double and triple toe-loop jump phases tutorial
Overview:
0:07 Let talk about the Double or Triple toe off the ice
0:20 How to avoid a toe axel on the ice and off the ice
1:20 Toe-loop entrances
2:26 Toe-loop entry
4:55 Toe-loop take-off
6:15 Toe-loop follow-through
6:45 Air position
7:10 Common mistake: head and shoulder alignmentFocu...
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Beginner-Foundation: On-ice forward crossover basic technique tutorial
Purpose: This tutorial introduces how to start to learn forward crossovers on the ice, and a few key technique components skaters need to learn in order to master a forward crossover.
Focus: Basic technique, upper body position, knee bend, shoulder position, free foot placement
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Advanced-Elite: Deep lower body muscles tone and strengthen barre workout
Purpose: Strengthen and tone your quads, hamstrings, calves, and glutes with this barre style workout.
Format: Warmup, guided sequence of exercises for reps
Equipment: Chair/barre, loop resistance band (optional)
Focus: Muscle tone, deep muscle strength, stability, glutes, hamstrings, quads, ...
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice clockwise lutz jump basic technique tutorial
Purpose: This video teaches the basic technique for an off-ice lutz in a clockwise direction. All the lutz phases are explained--entrance, entry, picking & take-off, follow-through, air position, and landing.
Focus: Basic technique, jump phases, lutz entrance, lutz entry, lutz picking, lutz tak...
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Beginner-Foundation: 10 minute isometric core strength workout
Purpose: Follow-along with Sarah in this 10 minute core workout.
This workout is a sequence of plank holds to build your core stability and strength.
Focus: Core strength, isometric strength, stability, abs, obliques, back strength.
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6 Step waltz jump breakdown & drills tutorial: Beginner-Foundation
Purpose: Skaters can watch and follow along with this tutorial to learn how to do a waltz jump on the ice. This video takes skaters through a series of walk-thrus and drills to build confidence with the waltz jump and can be used as a starting exercise prior to moving on to axel.
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Foundation-Elite: Role and key methods of recovery in athlete performance
Overview:
0:05 Let talk about the importance of recovery
0:25 What can be used for recovery
1:00 The most important recovery product
1:45 Why hydration is important for the recovery
3:55 Why you should use a foam roller or a vibration device before and after skating
5:40 How to use a resistan... -
Foundation: Off-ice forward inside three turn step crossover sequence tutorial
Purpose: This video teaches how to do a forward inside three turn step forward crossover sequence. It breaks down timing of the sequence and body position.
Focus: Upper body position, arm position, foot placement, lobes, timing
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Foundation-Advanced: Upper body and core 15 minute workout
Purpose: Follow-along with Sarah in this 15 minute upper body and core strength workout. You will need a raised surface and hand weights for this workout.
There are two circuits in this workout, with ten reps of each exercise. You will do three sets of both circuits.Focus: Full body core, bic...
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Foundation-Elite: Y-stand, Y-stand tilt, and ball change tilt kick tutorial
Purpose: Learn how to do a y-stand off-ice for on ice choreography or for a y-spin, and then try a more advanced version of a y-stand tilt and a tilt kick.
Focus: Dance combinations, flexibility, choreography, choreographic sequence, pcs
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice post-training or post-workout flexibilty cool-down
Purpose: This video takes skaters through a mini cool-down flexibility and mobility sequence with an emphasis on the front splits.
Focus: Flexibility, mobility, lower body flexibility, hamstring flexibility, hip flexor flexibility, forward splits, cool-down.
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Advanced: Neutral spine, spinal movements, and deep core engagement tutorial
Purpose: This video teaches skaters how to practice a neutral spine to help improve their posture and prevent injuries and common skater errors like anterior pelvic tilt and sway back.
Focus: Neutral spine, posterior tilt, anterior tilt, low abdominals, deep abdominals, posture, alignment, inju...
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Foundation: Introduction to burpees tutorial
Purpose: This video introduces the burpee exercise, explaining to skaters the benefit of this exercise, why it's helpful for a figure skater, key technique points to keep in mind when doing this exercise, and progressions for the burpee
Focus: Basic technique, alignment, progressions, variations...
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The importance of strong ankles in figure skating: all levels
Purpose: This video explains why ankle strengthening is so important for figure skaters, especially when they are doing off-ice training.
Focus: ankle mobility, ankle range of motion, ankle dorsiflexion, injury prevention, balance, ankle internal rotation, ankle external rotation
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Recognizing and correcting a sway back & 3 key exercises: all levels
Purpose: This video explains what a sway back is, why its important to recognize and prevent or correct it.
Focus: Sway back, pelvic tilt, core activation, posture, injury prevention, back injury prevention, Pilates, ballet, stroking position
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Beginner-Foundation: Deep core and pelvic floor strength for skaters workout
Overview:
0:00 Importance of pelvic floor and deep core strengthening
1:05 Overview of the 3 exercises and workout structure
2:15 First exercise
4:01 Second exercise
5:21 Third exercise
6:24 Round 2 of the workout
9:20 Round 3 of the workout
12:00 Closing remarksFocus: Deep core strength, pel...
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Advanced-Elite: Barre style deep glute workout
Purpose: This video is a barre inspired glute workout.
Equipment needed: Yoga block, chair/counter
Focus: Barre, glutes, lower body strength, deep glute strength, injury prevention, standing glute exercises, lateral leg extensions, post-season -
5 key knee and ankle warm-up exercises: Beginner-Foundation
Purpose: This video introduces 5 key stroking exercises skaters should practice to warm-up their ankles and knees prior to getting into other skating elements.
Focus: upper body control, across the ice, flow, glide, balance, power
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Foundation: Off-ice lutz phases and common mistakes tutorial
Purpose: This video introduces an off-ice Lutz and breaks down the different phases so skaters can really understand the jump all the way throughout from the entrance into the landing. It also covers most common mistakes and why they happen.
Focus: Basic technique, Lutz entry, Lutz picking, Lut...
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Advanced-Elite: Lutz strength & stability mini class
Purpose: This mini classes leads skaters through a series of exercises to help improve their lutz jump
Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, stability, control, strength, arm position, glute strength, ankle stability
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice introduction to single loop jump tutorial
Purpose: This video breaks down the loop jump off the ice into its individual phases, entry, take-off, and follow-through, to help skaters improve their jump on the ice.
Focus: Basic technique, loop entrance, loop entry, loop take-off, loop follow-through, upper body position, arm position, fre...
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Beginner-Foundation: On-ice introductory salchow tutorial
In this video, Signe breaks down an on ice salchow for skaters who are learning it for the first time. She uses a forward outside three turn entrance, as that is the most simple for skaters who are just starting the jump. She breaks down each part of the jump quite slowly so that skaters can work...