So you have decided to get ready for the start of the snow season and want to make sure you can walk after your first day back?
Well, maybe I am jumping the gun – you might have just been going up on weekends and are getting pretty dern sick of having rubbery leg syndrome every monday.
So, the top three exercises that I do with my athletes/real people who like to ski:
Number 1:
with twist:
With every turn, your body rotates in an extremely complex arrangement of bones, muscles and everything else inbetween. If you have trained your body to be strong just in a classic ‘up-down’ phase, then you are failing to train your body the way you naturally move on skis – in rotation.
Number 2:
1- leg deadlift:
Stand on one leg. Reach down and touch your toes then stand up again. Feel the hamstraing and glute muscles kick in? What is it that makes you fall over? Could it be your body is off balance (weighted on one leg) and in a position it cannot recover from? This exercise gives you a fighting chance to not only be stronger, but to be more in control.
Number 3:
Standing cable woodchops:
Grab a cable and rotate with the arms straight as if about to chop down a tree with an axe. Do it from low to high, high to low, left to right and vice versa. Get your body twisting against resistance because with evey pole plant your body is responding to the ful body load in rotation!
