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. Skaters should aim to do up to 5 exercises at a time, with 2-3 sets of 10-15 reps for each exercise.
Focus: hip strength, stabilization, injury prevention, alignment, take-off, landing, pelvic floor
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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
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Advanced-Elite: Barre style deep glut...
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 co...
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
