Getting Started is the Hardest Part
Getting started takes 10-20 minutes. Use the warmup to improve position, and as a light strength routine. This way we feel lighter, faster, more stable. Start with improving the spine, hip rotation, and breathing.
Address the fact that skating brings imbalances to the body, so do all sports and repetitive movements. We overwork certain joints and fail to train others. This work balances the body.
Look at rotation and the position of joints: athletes often have no understanding of joint function.
Skating is not the first stop for warming up
Skate to warm up, but after you feel light from some care. Skating for a warmup fires overworked muscles and ignores neglected ones. 10 min of care brings balance and flexibility.
The correct sequence of muscles firing is like a whip from hip to big toe. Two birds one stone is, let’s help the spine too. Without the spine nothing good happens.
Which skills and tools? Light weight and BFR are versatile, cheap, and take 3 minutes. These wake groups of muscles for jumping. They also balance us over time, bring back strength that was lost, and align us for more speed.