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  • Daily stabilizer and alignment workout exercises: Beginner-Elite

    Episode 8

    Purpose: Skaters should be doing these types of glute, hip and pelvic floor exercises every day to help with alignment on jumps and spins, injury prevention, working on a strong core and pelvic floor to keep a nice neutral spine minimizing the chance of sway or arch to maximize power on jumps. Sk...

  • Standing glute workout: advanced-elite

    Purpose: This is a standing glute workout that you can easily do at home.

    Equipment needed: No Equipment

    Focus: Lower body strength, glutes, hip flexors

  • Advanced-Elite: Barre style deep glute workout

    Purpose: This video is a barre inspired glute workout.

    Equipment needed: Yoga block, chair/counter
    Focus: Barre, glutes, lower body strength, deep glute strength, injury prevention, standing glute exercises, lateral leg extensions, post-season

  • Advanced-Elite: Pilates/yoga style core workout

    Purpose: This video is a fast but difficult Pilates/yoga style core workout.
    Equipment needed: Yoga mat, hand weight (optional)

    Focus: Core strength, abs, hip flexors, pelvic floor, obliques, deep core muscles

  • Foundation: Explosive power and anerobic cardio plyometric workout

    Purpose: This plyometric workout is great for skaters to work on their anerobic cardio conditioning and get up their endurance for program run-throughs

    Focus: Explosive power, conditioning, program endurance, anerobic cardio, vertical height

  • Advanced-Elite: Deep hips and glutes tone and strengthen barre style workout

    Purpose: Strengthen and tone your glutes, along with your hip flexors, quads and hamstrings with this barre style workout.

    Format: Warm-up, guided sequence of exercises for reps, cool-down

    Equipment: Chair/barre, loop resistance band (optional)
    Focus: Muscle tone, deep glute strength, quads, h...

  • Advanced-Elite: Deep lower body muscles tone and strengthen barre workout

    Purpose: Strengthen and tone your quads, hamstrings, calves, and glutes with this barre style workout.

    Format: Warmup, guided sequence of exercises for reps

    Equipment: Chair/barre, loop resistance band (optional)

    Focus: Muscle tone, deep muscle strength, stability, glutes, hamstrings, quads, ...

  • Beginner-Foundation: Upper body and core mini workout

    "Purpose: This is a short workout that targets the core and the upper body.

    Format: 3 sets, 4 exercises

    Equipment: Hand weights
    Focus: Full body strength, core strength, bicep strength, triceps strength, abdominal strength, deep core strength"

  • Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice ladder drills for reactivity and agility class

    Purpose: Build your agility and reaction time with these follow along ladder exercises. It's important for skaters to practice agility and reaction time so that they can improve their quickness and coordination into their on ice skills.

    Focus: Agility, reactivity, quick twitch, coordination, ti...

  • Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice beginner balance skill class

    Purpose: This follow-along video is a great class to do to work on improving your balance. Balance is such an important skill for figure skaters to work on because so much of figure skating is done on one foot. This class starts with some basic balance positions and then ends with some skating sp...

  • Beginner-Foundation: 6 minute full lower body workout

    Purpose: This workout is a great lower body workout for beginners.

    There are 5 exercises that are done for 8 reps on each side. There are two sets in this workout.
    To increase the difficulty, add in hand weights or ankle weights.

    Focus: Lower body strength, glute strength, quad strength, ha...

  • Beginner-Foundation: Arm and shoulder strength & mobility workout

    Purpose: This workout is an upper body and arm circuit of 4 exercises, 1 minute on 10 seconds off, with two sets.

    To make this workout more challenging, use small hand weights with each of the exercises.

    Focus: Upper body strength, arm strength, shoulder strength, shoulder injury prevention,...

  • Foundation-Advanced: 10 minute skater specific balance and stability class.

    Purpose: Follow along in this 10 minute balance class with Sarah to work on your control and stability to improve your on-ice control.

    This also could be used as a great off-ice balance warm-up before training.

    Focus: Balance, stability, injury prevention, stabilizer muscles, skater specific ...

  • Beginner-Foundation: 10 minute isometric core strength workout

    Purpose: Follow-along with Sarah in this 10 minute core workout.

    This workout is a sequence of plank holds to build your core stability and strength.

    Focus: Core strength, isometric strength, stability, abs, obliques, back strength.

  • Foundation-Advanced: 10 min in-season full body strength & conditioning workout

    Purpose: This is a 10 minute full-body workout.

    You will do each exercise for 45 seconds with a 15 second rest.

    This is a great in-season workout for conditioning program endurance.

    Small hand weights are optional in this workout.
    Focus: Full body strength, explosive power, anerobic cardio...

  • Advanced: 10 minute full body balance & stability workout

    Purpose: This workout is a stability workout starting with 6 exercises with a 30 second hold, followed by 3 exercises with 10 reps each. The workout starts and finishes a 1 minute plank.

    For this workout, you need a raised surface as well as a bosu ball. If you don't have a bosu, you can substi...

  • Beginner-Foundation: In-season full body strength & conditioning workout

    Purpose: Follow along with Sarah with this conditionining workout as she starts with three exercises of ten reps each as a AMRAP workout--as many sets as possible.

    She follows it with a circuit with a set of exercises for the full body.

    This is a great in-season workout to maintain good condi...

  • Advanced-Elite: 15 minute deep stabilizer muscles full body workout

    Purpose: Grab a resistance band and follow-along with Sarah for this 15 minute resistance band workout. This workout is a great full body deep stabilizer muscle workout.

    Use a heavier resistance band for more of a challenge, but make sure you can maintain your form throughout!
    Focus: Core stren...

  • Foundation-Advanced: Upper body and core 15 minute workout

    Purpose: Follow-along with Sarah in this 15 minute upper body and core strength workout. You will need a raised surface and hand weights for this workout.
    There are two circuits in this workout, with ten reps of each exercise. You will do three sets of both circuits.

    Focus: Full body core, bic...

  • Beginner-Foundation: Deep core and pelvic floor strength for skaters workout

    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 remarks

    Focus: Deep core strength, pel...