Muscles: Location and Terminology
ANTERIOR VIEW: Lower body
1- Illiopsoas: Primary function
- skating: recovery phase (striding and crossovers)
- foot speed
2 - Extensors: Primary function
- skating: turn-out and extension
3 - Adductors: Primary function
- skating: recovery phase
- inside leg extension on crossovers, agility
4 - Abbuctors: Primary function
- Striding: extension of the leg
- agility and lateral mobility
5 - Sartorius: Primary function
- skating: crossovers, pivots
Quadriceps Group
6a - Rectus Femoris: Primary function
- skating: transitional stride and in extension
- tight turns and crossovers
- quick starting and stopping
6b - Vastus Intermedius: Primary function
- skating: Origin of stride and Transitional striding phase
- Crossovers, tight turns
- Quick starting and stopping
6c - Vastus Medialis: Primary function
- skating: Beginning of stride. Low position. Critical to good knee flexion
6d - Vastus Lateralis: Primary function
- skating: end of striding phase on turn-out.
7 - Tibialis Anterior: Primary function
- recovery of foot after extension, heel cuts
- driving to the net, stability
POSTERIOR VIEW: Lower body
1 - Lower Back Stabilizers: Primary function
- skating balance and body alignment
Gluteals
2a - Gluteus Medius: Primary function
- skating: Striding and extension
2b - Gluteus Minimus: Primary function
- skating: Striding and extension
2c - Gluteus Maximus: Primary function
- skating: Thrusting
Hamstring Group
3a - Semitendonous: Primary function
- skating: Recovery phase
3b - Bicep Femoris: Primary function
- skating: recovery phase
3c - Semimembranosus: Primary function
- skating: recovery phase
4 - Gastronemius: Primary function
- skating: thrusting power at end of stride
- extends foot at end of stride. Critical to maximize speed
- agility and lateral mobility
- critical element in backward skating extension ("C"-cuts)
5 - Soleus: Primary function
- critical at origin of stride.
- begins extension of foot
6 - Achilles Tendon: Primary function
- skating
- extension of foot
- poor flexibility effects ankle flexion which limits knee bend and stride length
ANTERIOR VIEW: Upper Body
1a - Anterior Deltoid: Primary function
- Shooting (slap shot, wrist shot, snap shot)
- passing
- checking skills (pushing action) as in pinning the man, sealing him out, containing the man.
- assisting in skating stride.
1b - Lateral Deltoid: (previous page)
2 - Pectoralis Major: Primary function
- checking skills (pushing action) as in pinning the man, sealing him outs, containing the
man, pushing him off the puck.
- shooting (slap shot, wrist and snap shots
3 - Seratus Anterior: Primary function
- Shooting (slap shot, snap shot)
- controlling the stick (face-offs, etc)
4 - Biceps Brachii: Primary function
- shooting
- checking skills (pulling action), pinning the man, clutch and grab,
- controlling the stick (face-offs)
5 - Brachioradialis: Primary function
- shooting
- stick control (checking, face-offs)
6 - External Obliques: Primary function
- shooting (twisting action - slap shot)
- skating (rotation of the upper body) as in pivoting, turning, etc.
7a - Transverse Abdominus: Primary function
- shooting
- skating
7b - Rectus Abdominus: Primary function
- shooting
- skating