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
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Advanced-Elite: Lat pull downs with r...
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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Elite: Tricep extension on bosu exercise
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
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Advanced: Side plank with band pull a...
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
