What are some good strength & mobility exercises to help with skating?

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Matt Eiden · Answer

So I'm not a skater but I know lots of strength coaches and athletes that play hockey and skating and do things and work with people that do that. So, some good strength and Mobility exercises to help with that, you got to think about what you're doing and what you can do to kind of counteract, what you're doing to make your body feel better, and then also to help what you're doing. So when you're skating using lots of hips, you'd probably getting into anterior pelvic tilt so exercises, That can help you find a more neutral pelvis, doing some bridging doing some hamstring doing some hip stability, things to kind of stabilize and strengthen, your pelvis posteriorly, things to strengthen, your adductors, your abductors, all the muscles that you're going to be lengthening and shortening quickly in skating. I like to do. Lots of bunkies with my athletes funky hip stabilizing exercises. You can do a many different ways, but if you just have a little bench, you can basically work some n range hip stability. Lots of lower abs, just to kind of keep the pelvis pulling in the right direction. Belly button down, strength training, getting your lower abs to fire, getting your glutes, to fire. I said Bridges, I said, bunkies, basically anything you can do to get your glutes on, open up your hip flexors. So if we can do the couch trip, Which do some hip flexor stretches do some active and range adductor stretching things to kind of train you to get in the end ranges that you're going to be exposed to in the act of skating, being strong in those short, and ranges, and those lengthened and ranges, and also having them ability to hit those motions, but also the strength in those and ranges. So that, when you're doing it, you're not going to get hurt. Hope that helps

John Sinclair · Answer

Hey, Melanie, what are some good strength and Mobility exercises to help with skating. Well, I'm a former hockey player from Canada and have worked with pro hockey players. And one of the things that we know about strength and Mobility for hockey is that the essence of playing the game on a very small blade on a fixed boot, on a frictionless surface is that it requires a tremendous amount of strength, stability and capacity in the quadricep in the glute. So all around the hip hip, and what's particularly interesting about hockey is because your big toe can't get into the ground and cannot help decelerate and help pronate the foot because the foot doesn't really need to pronate so much is the inner thigh, the groin, the adductors always overloaded. So, what we need to do is we need to create strength in the in and around the hip, the knee and the pelvis. But then we also need to be able to offload it because if we're in season, we're playing all the time. These tissues are always overloaded. So we want to create a little bit of Sensibility in different planes of motion to allow the tissues to recover. So, what we have here is the Viper Pro. This device was actually designed by my friend Michelle Del court and and Simon Bennett who actually invented this to work with hockey players. I'm just going to show you a few that we do. So I'm going to stay balanced on my on both feet and I'm going to drive this Viper Pro away for me and immediately. As soon as I drive that away, I'm going to get some extensibility into the hip. And then I take it into a different direction. So I'm just trying to stretch and lengthen, these tissues in a different way that I wouldn't normally get or have to offload. So we think about the groin, we want to be able to take that load and stretch that groin in a variety of different ways as we load it. So it's a topic that I can talk probably about eight hours on but there's just a quick little snip of some of the things. That we need to do to help with your skating.

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