Five-Circle Weave Warm-Up

Objective: Progressive-speed skating warm-up using every faceoff circle for edges and crossovers. Setup: One line in the corner, 5-second gaps. No pucks first time through, pucks on round two. Execution: Skate the near circle, cross through to the far-side circle, then the center circle. Continue through both far-zone circles and finish with a hard stop at the far goal line. Round two with pucks; round three backward on the circles. Coaching points: Crossovers the whole way around — no gliding through the circles. Build to game speed by the center circle. Heads up through the middle — traffic awareness.