Purpose: This pose helps skaters focus on stretching more of the upper body, including the spine, shoulders, upper back, arms, and core. It can also help release tension in your upper body.

Focus: Upper body tension release, shoulder mobility, spinal elongation, back tension release, backbend

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Salchow jump
Variation: From standstill, on an axis
Purpose: This setup is helpful for skaters to understand the flow and direction of a salchow jump. Starting from standstill also gives skaters more control to hit the jump phases
Focus: Basic technique, jump pathwa...

Purpose: This video leads skaters through a beginner level cardio workout to help skaters begin to train their cardiovascular endurance and build their capacity for harder workouts. It is designed in a 5 min circuit of 3 sets of 4 exercises. You can set the timer and gradually increase to 10 min ...

Purpose: The pancake can help skaters prep for the middle splits. In a pancake stretch, the skater folds forward, which mainly targets the hamstrings, but the legs are open, which also works hip rotation. The difference between the pancake and the middle splits is that in a pancake stretch, the p...

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.

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Salchow entry to follow through
Variation: Skip a three turn entrance and use back crossovers to gain speed for the salchow entry
Purpose: By removing the typical three turn salchow entrance, skaters avoid the lack of control they may experience from the three ...

When it comes to skaters’ fitness, traditional fitness training can only take you so far. That’s because it takes having both a skating and fitness background to properly teach off ice training. That’s why an in-depth understanding of sport science, anatomy and body alignment can make all the dif...

Purpose: This drill challenges and improves a skater's ability to do continuous rotation, and also change the conditions within the same drill; going from half a turn to a full turn. It is also challenging to land with control on one foot for the max rotation at the end after doing a few rotation...

Purpose: This cone drill helps skaters work on coordination and general rotation skills.

Focus: Spatial awarenss, body awareness, coordination, reactivity, timing and rhythm

Level: Foundation Base exercise: Checked H position to stretched landing position Variation: Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on keeping their bodies checked over the landing side while on a backwards outside edge before moving into a stretched landing position. Helps with these common mist...

Purpose: This challenging skill helps skaters test their balance and their strength; even if they can do a camel to sit position on the ice, they will be surprised to find it is much more challenging to do it off the ice!

Focus: Strength building, lower body strength, balance, alignment

Purpose: This video introduces basic jump rotation technique from two foot 1/4 turns landing on two feet. It is essential that skaters learn how to rotate on the spot because it helps their axis and alignment in the air, their body awareness and vertical height.

Focus: Basic technique, upper bo...

Purpose: Crossing the legs in the forward fold allows skaters to target the lateral hamstrings and stretch the IT band, which can be a limiting factor in skater's flexibility poses

Focus: IT band flexibility

Purpose:
0:20 Let talk about consistent performance in competition
0:50 Where does consistancy start
2:10 Strategy to build consistency
3:30 How to created a mind map
4:20 Importantsfactors
6:15 When to create a mind map

Focus: Consistency, athletic performance, nerves, mind map, competiti...

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Back spin to H position
Variation: Back spin cross position before the H position into loop jump exit
Purpose: This is a key, bread and butter drill to help skaters with their axis and air position, alignment, and loop jump. Skaters need to develop the control...

Purpose: This exercise starts by skaters setting their hips so that they are leading with their take-off side on the axel. From that position, they then move through the axel take-off to the axel follow through and air position to build muscle memory.

Focus: Alignment, basic technique, skating ...

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on a quick snap into their air position on a loop take-off, vertical height on the take-off, rotation, and control of landings so that they can do it continuously.
Focus: Loop take-off, Vertical height, tight air position, upper body control, jump combinations

Purpose: This video teaches a clockwise, or lefty off-ice loop jump from a forward inside three turn entrance into all the loop jump phases: entry, take-off, follow-through, air position and landing

Focus: Basic technique, loop entire jump, loop entrance, loop entry, loop take-off, loop follow-t...

Purpose: This video is a great follow-along cool-down routine to do after a on or off-ice training session or a workout. It's important to cool down after an intense session to help prevent injuries and to help the muscles recover more quickly for your next training session.

Focus: Cool-down, r...

Purpose: This advanced version of superman helps you build a strong and stable back which can help with posture and injury prevention. Adding in the twist adds an element of spinal rotation that is helpful because figure skaters experience a lot of spinal rotation

Focus: Injury prevention, stabi...

Purpose: Practice this forward inside bracket on the floor to understand and perfect basic technique. This bracket starts on a forward inside edge and counter-rotates to a backward outside edge on the same circle.
Focus: Basic technique, edge quality, upper body position.

Purpose: Grab a resistance band and follow-along with Sarah for this 15 minute resistance band workout. This workout is a great full body deep stabilizer muscle workout.

Use a heavier resistance band for more of a challenge, but make sure you can maintain your form throughout!
Focus: Core stren...

Purpose: Doing ladder drills can help skaters develop coordination and body awareness. These skills help them learn new skills and choreography more quickly, and also help them have tidier foot placement when skating.

Focus: Agility, coordination, timing and rhythm, body awareness

Purpose: The single leg squat is an essential skating exercise, but its incredibly hard to do off the ice. They also are a good test of general alignment and strength and an indicator for potential injuries. Skaters should work on maintaining good alignment of the knee with the foot and watch tha...