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, recovery, lower heart rate. quad stretch, front splits, hamstring stretch, hip flexor stretch.
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice post-tra...
Purpose: This video takes skaters through a mini cool-down flexibility and mobility sequence with an emphasis on the front splits.
Focus: Flexibility, mobility, lower body flexibility, hamstring flexibility, hip flexor flexibility, forward splits, cool-down.
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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-Advanced: Off-ice seated b...
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...
