Your Skating Stride is Killing your Fitness Gains (Heres Why)
from SkatefreshAsha on 23 Feb 2026

Use these FREE Stride Training Drills to lengthen your glide & strengthen your muscles https://skatefresh.com/freebie-beginner/ https://skatefresh.com/freebie-intermediate/It doesnt matter how you skate as long as youre having fun and exercising. This is a common phrase I hear a lot. Actually it does matter how you skate. If your stride regroups in a toes out V position, youre cutting your glide short.Short glide = short pushShort push = Weak pushWeak push = less glute strength.Less glide = less stamina build.Same effort.Different results.Technique doesnt make skating less fun.It makes it more powerful.Once you see the snowball of effects that come from a V-ing set down, you cant un-see them.Grab our FREE Stride Training Drills for inline skaters (just pick your level or study them all) Let us know in the comments what you experience using them.Beginner: 2 Basic Stride Drills + 2 Lessons https://skatefresh.com/freebie-beginner/ Intermediate: 3 Fitness Stride Drills + 1 Lesson https://skatefresh.com/freebie-intermediate/ Advanced: 2 Double Push Drills + 1 Lesson https://skatefresh.com/freebie-advanced/ Who is Asha Skatefresh? Founder of Skatefresh.com (since 2000) Skate Coach for BBC and Disney’s “Soy Luna” Teaching inlines and quads for 25 years Quads figure skater who represented Great Britain internationally. Skating for 42 years Powerslide Brand Ambassador (since 2011) 356 Instructors Certified worldwide (with ICP Inline Certification Program)For lessons in the UK and Asha’s Touring Trips schedule, visit www.Skatefresh.com Follow Asha and Skatefresh on social media: Facebook: Skatefresh Asha Instagram: @skatefreshasha Asha wears @Powerslidebrand Evos & @endlessbladingAsha wears Skate-inspired T-shirts from the Skatefresh range for men & women https://skatefreshtshirts.teemill.com Leggings by @k.deer