Purpose: This video explains why foam rolling is beneficial for figure skaters to use in their warm-up and their cool-downs, and some common mistakes figure skaters make when first trying foam rolling. Meg then teaches skaters how to use a foam roller to relax the muscles in their lower body.
Focus: Hamstring recovery, glute recovery, calf recover, quad recovery, hip flexor recovery, injury prevention, knots
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Foundation-Advanced: Post-training or...
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...
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice low lung...
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.
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Foundation-Elite: Upper body tension ...
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...
