Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to improve their back strength, helping them maintain a better spiral and camel position. Skaters can use anything that will elevate their foot if they don't have a plyo box/stool.
Focus: back strength, spiral, camel spin, glute stability, glute strength

Purpose: This exercise helps skaters build strength in their latissimus dorsi, or the lats. The lats are the largest muscle in the back, and aid in core stability and internal rotation of the shoulders. Often skaters who break at their core in their air position have underdeveloped lats.

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Purpose: This is a challenging version of tricep extensions while needing to use full core strength to stabilize on the bosu.

Focus: Stability, triceps, core strength

Purpose: This side plank variation also allows skaters to strengthen their upper body while working their core.
Focus: Obliques, rhomboids, rotator cuffs, rear deltoids, trapezius

Purpose: Scapular retraction is a fundamental movement to executing explosive and controlled movements safely. Many skaters have scapular winging, where the shoulders wing out and affect posture. This exercise helps set the shoulder blades and pattern good upper body movement patterns and posture...

Level: Advanced
Base exercise: Lat pull
Variations: Single leg, lateral extension
Muscle groups trained: Lats, deltoids, traps
Movement: Abduction, Vertical pull
Purpose: Strength building, stability
Range: Upper body Equipment: Weights