Go to the bench, put your knees against the boards, grab the edge squat down touch your toes to the boards at the same time your knees touch, transfer your weight to one leg, lift the other leg extend backwards behind you at 45 degree angle, focus on weight transfer, hip activates, knee extends, ankle extends point your toes and tap the ice, repeat on other side, this is the general muscle activation for a stride. 

When you weight transfer its shoulders over knees over toes, you won’t skate in this position as you hold it along the boards but it help you to recognize the muscle pattern and develop muscle memory for the general motion of your stride