Good Preseason Workouts for Skiing?

Any sport is easier with lower body fat percentage that is the only benifit I can imagine from doing cardio. as for the strength training, I have seen professional race skiers train and they train more for general skills like agility, flexibility and balance than for strength, the way I have seen them lift heavy weights does seem to put emphasis on reducing injury. The same race skiers, train on the mountain every day too, I still believe that they are good at skiing because they are able to ski hard every day(thanks to the training they do,) not because squats made them strong.

I do dry land traning, not really thinking much about skiing, just thinking about getting stronger. I do this, I get stronger but I haven't noticed any effect on my skiing;

Monday: Front Squat, Clean, Bent row, parallel bar Dips

Wednesday: Back Squat, Clean and Press, Chin Ups, Leg lowers

Friday: Daed Lift, Snatch, Bench, Cable Wood Chop

For the first 3 exercise every day I do 4-6 reps for 3 sets, the last one 8-12 for 3 sets. On Tue, Thu and Sat I do HIIT on an exercise bike.
 
Squats, dead lifts, calf raises, box jumps. Then I try to work my way up to 15mins of the invisible chair ( have no idea if that what it's really called, but when you lean up against the wall and it looks like your sitting on a chair).

Also I do the elepictical in reverse with high resistance. Those last two are going to prepare you the most for those leg burners.
 
I have no problem skiing a whole run but I can't run 2 miles without feeling suicidal, I don't like hiking a rail either, maybe you could benifit from cardio on that one?
 
You appear to not understand. I mean that training does not increase how hard you can ski, it just allows you to use your potential with less risk of injury. The racers I talk of would get fucked up and die if they fell having done no training, but they may well have been able to ski just as good.
 
They are called wall sits, however invisible chair sounds a bit more fun. 15 minutes of those is almost too long, I do 5 minute bursts...you can do more.
 
i cycle a mtb to work most days and on the run up to ski season i will be letting a little air out of the tyres and keeping it in a high gear, really gets the legs burning!
 
ONE

LEGGED





SQUATS with dumbells, VARIATIONS





then

mix it up doing them on balance boards

then

CLAMSHELLS for outer leg muscles

then for inter leg muscles

BAND HIP ADDUCTIONS





Basically theres four muscles in the leg to work and all should be paid attention to :





1) Quads

2) Hamstrings

3) Adductors

4) Abductors





Quads are worked in one squats and hamstrings are too. There are many variations of the one legged squat, but unless you plan on landing on two feet EVERYTIME there no point in squating on two feet with tons of weight. You training for skiing, not body building. DO ONE LEGGED SQUATS





Adductors are so important because they are the fine tuning muscles that you use after your land. Can be the difference between afterbanging and looking stupid....look up adduction exercises online but the best one is with the exercise band BY FAR, because it instills BALANCE





Abductors are the outside lateral leg muscles. Clamshells with a band work well with this one. Again the adbuctor just like adductor is the fine tuning muscle. It can save you from an acl tear.





Follow this as a general outline. The more research you do, the more you know! Remember whenever you can mix it up incorporating BALANCE this is huge. Skiing is a balance sport. Weight contest are not. Do not waist your time trying to squat 500 pounds.

However, I am not saying two legged squats are bad, I am just saying focus most of your energy on one leg. If you live in Breckenridge and want some more advice feel free to message me. I'll talk all day about this crap.

 
See this guy gets it. BALANCE people, BALANCE, we are going up and coming down. Landing. stabilizing. strong
 
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