What's your dryland ski training routine? If your answer primarily involves "pint-lifting" at your favorite aprés ski spot, you have your work cut out for you. However, it's never too early (or late... for you pint-lifters out there) to begin training for ski season. In fact, efficient getting and staying fit for skiing is a year-round activity if you want to avoid injury, improve your skiing and get the best out of your ski day.
OnTheSnow visited U.S. Ski Team athletes Grete Eliassen and Heather McPhie at the state-of-the-art Center of Excellence in Park City, Utah, to build an exercise routine you can do at home or in the gym. These exercises are simple but highly effective leg and core strengtheners that serve as staples of any routine.
Check out the exercises below to improve your ski fitness and enhance every moment you spend on the hill this season.
Information taken from the On The Snow website: http://www.onthesnow.com/news/a/107241/u-s--ski-team-s-5-essential-ski-training-exercises
Get Fit for Ski Season
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Ski Stretching and Flexibility - Full length, another good video for warm up / stretches to loosen up your muscles
Published on Nov 19, 2011
Dr Craig McLean, referred to as 'the ski doc' by the likes of Graham Bell (BBC's Ski Sunday) or Warren Smith (International Volkl Freeride team member), takes you through a series of exercises to get your body ready for the winter.
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