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Hi everyone,
So recently my club introduced a new standardized dryland training program for the competitive skaters, which would replace the lesson plans that our current ballet and strength coaches have come up with on their own. The new program has a lot of movement that mimics skating, like off-ice jumps, spirals/shoot the ducks on a bosu and some plyometrics. I talked to my current strength coach and he thinks that doing movement that mimics skating during strength training/conditioning off-ice is not that helpful, and I should stick to the program I have right now. However, my strength coach is not somebody with a figure skating background - he trains everybody from football to badminton, and the person who is in charge of the new program is a figure skater and she seems to know what she's doing. In your opinion, should I move to the new off-ice coach's program which supposedly helps with mimicking your motion on ice or stay with my current one to continue with my current powerlifting/weightlifting/ballet program?
Thank you!
So recently my club introduced a new standardized dryland training program for the competitive skaters, which would replace the lesson plans that our current ballet and strength coaches have come up with on their own. The new program has a lot of movement that mimics skating, like off-ice jumps, spirals/shoot the ducks on a bosu and some plyometrics. I talked to my current strength coach and he thinks that doing movement that mimics skating during strength training/conditioning off-ice is not that helpful, and I should stick to the program I have right now. However, my strength coach is not somebody with a figure skating background - he trains everybody from football to badminton, and the person who is in charge of the new program is a figure skater and she seems to know what she's doing. In your opinion, should I move to the new off-ice coach's program which supposedly helps with mimicking your motion on ice or stay with my current one to continue with my current powerlifting/weightlifting/ballet program?
Thank you!
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