I would like everyone to benefit from what I have learned from years of figure skating and coaching.  I have always gone to the ice whenever I needed to get in shape, lose weight, or just reduce my stress level. People who do these simple routines will notice immediate results and it is fun!  Using the concept of the circle and basic skating positions of the body, ICERSIZE  harnesses the power of the ice and gravity to increase muscle performance and burn calories. I still go through my ICERSIZE routines whenever I am at the rink and you can too!

-Valerie Palencar

 ICE ANYONE?

Skating across the ice is an incredible feeling!  Figure skating requires the athletic endurance of a marathon runner and the aesthetic agility of a ballet dancer. Because it requires such mastery of the gravitational forces, the personal rewards are indescribable. We can do things on frozen water that would be incomprehensible to do on solid ground. To find out how we are able to perform such dazzling feats on the ice, we look to the science of physics.

     The weight of the human body is concentrated and compressed onto the few inches of steel blade. The steel blade comes in contact with the ice. The concentrated compression of weight produces heat. This heat melts the ice underneath it producing water. This in turn produces energy and movement. If you stood perfectly still on the ice, with your weight distributed evenly, you would start to glide. This is physics at work. The ice is melting underneath your blades and you are moving!