Name: Playbook - Klabera Komini - Lower Body Activation
Uploaded: 2024-04-08T22:00:57.968Z
Duration: 30 min
Description: Lower Body Activation

A bodyweight & band drill workout that works all of the lower body muscles we need to strengthen for skating 🫶🏼

Rep ranges are recommendations. Tweak as necessary.

Stand up tall and lift toes upwards 
Take small steps forwards in heel walks

Heel walks

Dynamic hamstring stretch

- start with your feet turned out and wider than your hips 
- sink your hips downwards and lift your chest 
- keep elbows pressed against the inner part of the knees
- keep feet flat on the floor the whole time!
- lift hips upwards to straightens legs
- repeat and lower hips into frog squat

Dynamic Frog squat

Warmup

Start with bad at ankles 
Keeping legs straight and toes pointed forward, take side steps

Banded - straight leg walk

- Place band just above your knees
- Flex the hips to 45 degrees and the knees to approximately 90 degrees 
- Initiate the movement by abducting your top leg
- Push your knee away from the midline of your body                                                                                        
- Maintain contact between your feet throughout the movement
- Complete desired reps then repeat on the opposite side

Banded clamshells

Start with band around lower thigh 
Plant your feet and slowly lift glutes 
Keep pressure on the band at all times 
Repeat

Banded glute bridge

Circuit / glute focus

Start with band around mid feet 
Lift one knee up to 90 degrees 
Hold tension

Banded hip flexor March hold

Start with back around the mid foot 
Stand tall and lift one knee up to 90 degrees 
Hold for 2s 
Slowly lower and repeat

Banded hip flexor march

Start with band around ankles 
Lift top leg so there is tension on band 
Lift a little higher and lower slightly

Banded lateral raise

Start standing with band around ankles 
Keep both toes forward and lift one leg to the side 
Keep both knees straight 
Slowly lower to starting position

Banded standing abduction

Start standing with band around lower thighs 
Bring one foot to the heel of standing leg 
Start with knee facing forward and rotate knee as much as possible while keeping foot on heel

Repeat

IS - Banded external rotation

Circuit / hip focus

Lower Body Activation

Such a nice stretching after my off-ice jumping today. Thanks ♥️

Inessa

Cool Down Stretch

Whew, needed more than a bench on one side for the pistol squats, but I got it done. 🙌🏻

Joanna

Single leg strength (sit spin)

Quick Dynamic Stretch - Warmup

Great, ran through this 10mins after waking, really loosened me up, I feel and move like I have been up for hours

John Hudd

Zoja

Beillman Drills

Cassidy

Layback Drills

Caitlin

Aleksandra

Movement & Fluidity Work 1

Perfect set for a quick session post skate before work! 🙌🏻

Knee & Ankle Strength & Stability

Single leg work

Really good stretch to prepare for workouts

Pollyane

thank you for this routine. After 2 days of cleaning at my sick father-in-law's house + training on the ice, one week before my biggest competition of the season, I had a lot of tension. I was in pain everywhere, I already feel free of some tension. Thanks a lot !! 
Vero, adult skater 42 years old 😉

Véronique

Skater Stretch - Full Body

Explosive work

Spiral Drills

Audrey

Great workout. My glutes are feeling it 😅

Lilah

Lower Body - Glute Focus

Getting better and better each time. 🙌🏻

Love the skater strength series! This workout was good to work on isometric balance, a good add on to another workout!

Marie Michelle Voyer

Unilateral Work

Bruno

Quite challenging! Definitely a burner 🔥 I can’t do all 3 sets yet but I’m working on it 💪🏻

Brilliant workout. Could really feel the burn 🔥

Skater Ab Lines

Janey

Mariana

The leg kicks were hard, but I do feel warmed up.

Evelyne

Skater Off Ice Warmup

Love love love, my hips feel buttery soft after and I feel stronger every time I repeat this one! If you have tight hips like me, I recommend doing half frog rotations instead of a full frog one!

Hip Strength

Ab lines & Glute strength

Check Out Position/Extension Work

Core Work - Plank Focus

Beginner balance

Awesome! Love the 20-min exercise format with figure skating specific stretching🥰

Ewelina 

Hips - Turnout focus

Spread Eagle work

Spiral STRENGTH & balance

It was easy until I got the Pliés then it was more challenging than I expected, but in a good way!

Abby

I’ve never used some of those muscles before, so it was difficult but I love it. Feels like I’ve discovered new world for me 🫶🏻 thank you

Liene

Ankle Strength

Quick warmup

It was a good sesh but I hope there was an alternative move, like for the glute bridges but that’s just a personal opinion. Overall amazing workout ☺️

Abbygale

Glute & Hip Activation - warm up

I had to incorporate some forward folds (stand and touch my toes basically) to stretch my knees and help loosen up the rest of my body in between some of these steps, but this was such a good warm up activity! I’m keeping this in my rotation for sure!

Ashley

I absolutely needed an ankle mobility workout in my life! I recommend massaging/rolling your calf muscles before doing this one, it will help you get more range of motion!

Ankle Mobility Drills

Wow, this is a good one! 🫀 Especially good for an off-ice session, love love love!

Lower Body Activation

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