All right! We’ve done bracing, breathing alignment activation, some leg strength, some rotation, balance, all these things are really important for skiing. Once you have those fundamentals, now it’s time to up the game a little bit more and this is where agility for skiers comes in. Speed, quickness, and skiing that’s very very important especially as you start advancing …
Ski Fitness – Part 7: Squats for Skiing
Today we’re going to talk about squats. Now squatting is one of the most common exercises that people do in the gym and that we do in day-to-day life. For skiing, it’s fantastically important. Now, this is where we start to pile on all the different things we’ve talked about in previous videos. Our posture, our bracing, our breathing, the …
Ski Fitness – Part 6: Lateral Motion Training
All right! In a previous video, I talked about lateral bounding as part of our balance. Right now, we’re going to take that to the next level with lateral motion training. We will add a bit more of a strength or leg strength component to it. Because of course, in skiing, as you know, legs are really important. We have …
Ski Fitness – Part 5: Rotation Skills
All right! In a previous video, we talked about rotation in the sense of mobility. With skiing, rotation skills are a critical factor, so we want to practice lots of different variations of rotation because essentially in skiing unless you’re going straight down the hill, there’s rotation in almost everything you do. If you’re doing bumps it’s lots of rotation, …
Ski Fitness – Part 4: Balance Training
Last time, we talked about mobility. And, as we’re talking more about skiing performance, balance is a key factor, especially in skiing. In skiing, you’re in dynamic activity, there are always things you have to react and respond to, and a lot of people try to train extreme balance. While that is great, you have to have a foundation of …
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