Most skiers feel the burn in the thighs above all else, but a day on the slopes can also leave you with aching calves, glutes, groin, lower back and stomach. No matter how fit you are, your first days skiing always seem to leave you with soreness in muscle groups you did not even know you had.
Pre-Season Training
A pre-season programme of exercise for general fitness, combined with ski-specific strength training will help combat this. Your ski specific exercise needs to replicate the movements made when skiing, and must incorporate an element of balance and coordination.
You should try and cover all the key, complementary, areas :-
- Endurance - to ski longer runs without breaks.
- Strength - so you tire less easily.
- Balance - to enhance your technique.
All the effort you can make before you go skiing will be repaid many times over; if you are fit when you hit the slopes, you'll be able to ski for longer, feel less tired and will enjoy your skiing a whole lot more.
As the name suggests, ski-specific training works on specific body muscles which are crucial in skiing. Actually, it is important to have a full body workout, but for the purpose of skiing, there are muscles that need to be focused on before the winter-sport season. These include your leg muscles such as quadriceps, hamstrings, calf muscles, and shins. You also have to do some knee exercises since knee injuries are one of the most common lower body injuries in skiing. In this section, we will look at the different exercises which can strengthen your legs and knees with exercises for your outer and inner thighs, quadriceps, hamstrings, calf muscles, shins, knees and also your upper body.
Call Cynergi Health and Fitness club on 237 10 700 to find out more and to set an appointment.