Purpose: Skaters can use this exercise in their warm-up to warm-up hips, knees and ankles. Practice both forwards and backwards down the floor pumping arms back and forward with the knee to simulate the axel take-off on the ice.
Focus: hip, knee, and ankle extension; power, roll up to the toe, coordination, take-off, axel.
Up Next in General
-
Stroking exercise with free leg pulse...
Purpose: This is a compound exercise that challenges skaters to balance in a deep knee bend while pulsing their free leg, keeping their core still while controlling upper body movement.
Focus: hip activation, glute activation, quad activation, lat activation, stability, glute, upper body strength... -
Advanced: Off-ice forward and backwar...
Purpose: This exercise challenges a skaters coordination and strength as well as the ability to maintain a neutral position of the spine.
This video demonstrates using a wobble disc on the back to help skaters maintain a good awareness of their spinal position. A yoga block or another object cou...
-
Elite: Off-ice single leg banded reac...
Purpose: This challenging exercise can help skaters work on their balance and strength in their standing leg, the leg strength for the reach back in the free leg, and overall core strength and stability to maintain the position.
Focus: Balance, stability, injury prevention, ankle strength, flip...
