Skiing conditioning?

*monsterskier*

*monsterskier*

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anyone do anything a few weeks/months before skiing season starts to get back into shape?

i.e squats/running to get back endurance and leg muscle thus prolonging time on the mountain and not feeling sore at the end of the day?
 
I am usually relatively in shape, because I play sports and I just like not being fat anymore, but it's hard to really get your body ready for skiing. You use so many different muscles so it's hard to train for it- At least I don't know how. So I always end up being sore the first couple of days.
 
mt biking is a great way to keep in shape during the off season (specially dh mtbiking). keeps most of your skiing muscles active wich helps a ton once you go out skiing. although it's a bit to late to start biking, there are lots of training regiments that focus on your quads, shins/calfs and core muscles. basically lots of squats, leg lunges and plank exersizing that help keep your core strong. Stretch exercises like yoga and pilates are suuuper helpful too.

browse around bit and i'm sure you'll find something useful on youtube or something.
 
lots and lots of lunges, forward lunches, step back lunges, chair lunges, side step lunges, toe roll lunges, sneaky lunges. start incorporating weights into the lunges after a while. also do deadlifts and squats. i also do cardio like eliptical or stationary bike rides for 45 minutes. i usually do 1 day of purely leg exercises, 1 day of cardio and 1 day of yoga as my ski exercise specific days. i also do a day of arms and shoulders and a day of chest and back.
dont do core exercises (or any single group of muscles for that matter) every single day, do them 3 days a week max. if you do them every single day your body will become complacent and use to the exercise, you'll plateau and will not develop more strength. a proper balance of working out (and thus actually damaging your muscles) and letting them properly recover and heal is what makes them stronger. damaging them everything single day and not letting them recover and strengthen does you no good.
 
i can tell you that bumping up from 12 oz curs to 40oz curls didn't work well. my legs feel like they still have malt liquor in them from skiing on sat and all the fresh pow
 
probably the best way to get in shape for skiing is actually skiing,but I do yoga, lots of biking and trampolining and feel awesome on my 1st day back.yoga is amazing because it pretty much does everything-core muscles, flexibility and it improves your body awareness-plusit makes you feel like a chillaxed bag of jello when ur done-highly recomend lol!

 
1) physiotherapy for my damn neck
2) started longboarding long distances goofy and regular so i work out both thighs
3) just cleaned the leaves off my Backyard setup and gonna get me a replacement pvc pipe tomorrow and shred some rails :)
4) started climbing again to build up some muscles and strengthen my tendons ...
5) biking, lots of biking ...
 
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