It is time to flex some knowledge, or well, partly. Sadly, I never trained hockey so I do not actually know any good routines for practising skating. All my few attempts to actually study and learn how to skate have been in recent years and that is solely on the ice, in public, without any real instructor and only myself and what I read on the internet or what I was told about more knowledgeable friends. Still, this is only for novice skating and since Niclas Sundqvist is on a greater level I am not sure how helpful that is. Instead, I'll go with my gym knowledge and some things that I've picked up on how hockey players train. So let's build a leg day workout. Important for skating? Core and leg strength therefore the obvious start is squats. Something I actually know skaters IRL do practice. We of course follow this up with leg press as well as leg extensions and leg curls. That takes care of quite a lot of the legs but we need to finish up with some calf raises. And why not put in even more for some good measure. We round things up with both lunges with dumbbells as well as Romanian deadlifts to make sure the legs really feel it.

Now that's great for leg strength but we also need some actual skating practice so why not make sure we take the days without leg day to focus on going for laps on the ice to work up precision. agility, speed and acceleration. As for stamina, let's take some hours on the bike to improve general stamina and get some more workout done in the legs but also Sundqvist would do the wide threadmill which you can use rollerskates on to up the actual stamina needed for those long hockey games when the legs really start to feel like jelly.

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