Ice-skating is a graceful and elegant sport requiring precision and strength that takes the expertise and instruction of your personal trainer to perfect your form.

If you are a beginning ice-skater, the first thing that your personal trainer will do before you start ice-skating at the ice-rink is to check with you that your ice-skates fit and are laced properly. As you walk to the rink entry door, keep your skate guards on. Take the skate guards off right before you step on the ice. For your first time on the ice, you may fall down. However it is good practice to know how to fall relatively safely and to get up quickly. Your personal trainer may tell you that if you have to fall, then falling on your bottom is better than other ways of falling. Start to glide forward on the ice a few feet with your personal trainer standing by for assistance.

As a beginner, your personal trainer will show you how to stop on the ice using the snowplow method. Practice stopping on the ice by pushing your feet apart with your feet slightly wider in the back and narrower in the front, in a slight V shape position for your feet; and using the flat of the blade make some snow on the ice as you are stopping. This is the snowplow stopping method on ice. Stopping on the ice is the single most important thing that a novice ice-skater needs to learn. A snowplow stop can be done with one or with two feet, depending on which method you find to be easier. Many find that a one-foot snowplow stop is the easiest method to stop.

After your personal trainer sees that you have mastered the snowplow stop, your personal trainer will encourage you to do a lap around the rink while pushing forward using a
lternating feet.

Ice-skating can be fun with the instruction of your personal trainer, and ice-skating is a great way to stay healthy and fit. Some things that your personal trainer can teach you, as a beginner, are to skate backwards, to skate on one foot, and to do twirls or spins.

Here is one way that your personal trainer might describe how to do a two-foot spin. When spinning to the left, you will feel like you are spinning forward on your right skate and backward on your left skate. The left skate will have most of the weight on the toe, and the right skate will have most of the weight on the heel. The next step is to lift up the right foot while you know you are skating backward on the left inside edge. As you stay forward over the left skate, you will make a small back inside circle which allows you to be spinning on one foot.

Your personal trainer will instruct you to hold your stomach in so that your balance is good while doing the spin. And your personal trainer will tell you to pull your right leg into your knee while you raise up a bit on the left, skating knee. Maintaining your balance, you can pull your arms into your chest while keeping your elbows up. To exit the spin, pull out backward on a back right outside edge.

There is other advice that your personal trainer may give you regarding a spin. To avoid getting dizzy, focus your eyes on a stationary object, such as a pole in the distance, as you come out of the spin. To get better at doing spins, you need to practice doing them as often as you can. To build up momentum, you can spread your arms like you are hugging the trunk of a large tree. And it is important not to spin on the blade toe-pick of your ice-skates. Following the helpful advice of your personal trainer will get you doing fantastic ice-skating moves in no time.