Purpose: The cat cow is a great exercise for skaters to improve their pelvic floor mobility and awareness. Skaters can have either a posterior or anterior pelvic tilt, and this exercise helps skaters learn how to move from tipping the pelvis backward in the cat pose to tipping forward in the cow pose.
Focus: Pelvic floor awareness, posture, anterior pelvic tilt, posterior pelvic tilt, hip mobility, back injury prevention
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Advanced-Elite: Seated hip flexion kn...
Purpose: This exercise challenges a skater to maintain good posture and engagement through their core and pelvic floor during hip flexion.
Focus: Posture, pelvic floor engagement, neutral spine, back injury prevention, hollow body position
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Foundation-Advanced: Supine unilatera...
Purpose: This exercise helps skaters learn how to engage their deep core muscles and pelvic floor so that they are not compensating form or using their lower back.
Focus: Deep core strength, pelvic floor, back injury prevention, hip stability, external rotation
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Beginner-Foundation: Deep core and pe...
Overview:
0:00 Importance of pelvic floor and deep core strengthening
1:05 Overview of the 3 exercises and workout structure
2:15 First exercise
4:01 Second exercise
5:21 Third exercise
6:24 Round 2 of the workout
9:20 Round 3 of the workout
12:00 Closing remarksFocus: Deep core strength, pel...
