Purpose: This low lunge stretch is great for stretching out your lower body. Grabbing the back foot gives you an additional quad stretch in the back leg.

Focus: Hip flexor stretch, quad stretch, hamstring stretch, ankle stretch, glute stretch.

Purpose: The butterfly stretch is a great stretch to open up your hips and increase your external rotation. It's a good recovery stretch after a workout or training session. Leaning forward in the stretch increases the benefits of low back relief and flexibility.

Focus: External rotation, adduct...

Purpose: This forward fold is a good cool-down or tension relief as it stretches your hamstrings and releases your upper body, head, and shoulders. Skaters should focus on being loose and letting tension go in this variation. If it's too intense of a stretch for the hamstrings, they can bend thei...