Off-Season Skiing Fitness / Training
How off-season sports such as biking, hiking, sculling, and swimming, as well as strength training, can benefit your skiing.
Off-Season Skiing Fitness and Training
Information for skiers on staying fit and training off-season.
Information for skiers on staying fit and training off-season.
Hiking To Keep Your Ski Muscles Strong
Read about hiking, how it can benefit your skiing muscles and maintain your ski fitness, and tips to make sure your off-season hiking on the mountain is as fun as your winter skiing.
Read about hiking, how it can benefit your skiing muscles and maintain your ski fitness, and tips to make sure your off-season hiking on the mountain is as fun as your winter skiing.
Skiing and Biking
Why is biking good for keeping in shape for skiing? First, it makes you use the muscles you use skiing. Second, it is a great aerobic exercise. Here's more information on biking and how biking helps you stay fit for skiing.
Why is biking good for keeping in shape for skiing? First, it makes you use the muscles you use skiing. Second, it is a great aerobic exercise. Here's more information on biking and how biking helps you stay fit for skiing.
Skiing and Sculling
Rowing a sliding-seat scull is an excellent, total-body workout that really works your skiing muscles. Whether you choose to use a rowing machine or if you have the opportunity to row on the water, rowing is a great off-season exercise, and will definitely keep your entire body - ski muscles included - fit.
Rowing a sliding-seat scull is an excellent, total-body workout that really works your skiing muscles. Whether you choose to use a rowing machine or if you have the opportunity to row on the water, rowing is a great off-season exercise, and will definitely keep your entire body - ski muscles included - fit.
Skiing and Yoga
How yoga can benefit your skiing. Yoga practice can prevent ski injuries and can be a good wellness practice for skiers.
How yoga can benefit your skiing. Yoga practice can prevent ski injuries and can be a good wellness practice for skiers.
Strength Training for Better Skiing
Skiing, especially downhill skiing, may be highly dependent on strong leg muscles but overall conditioning builds a routine that burns calories, increases metabolism and can target muscles important for skiing but not usually concentrated on. Building these muscles is important because they surround and stabilize joints.
Skiing, especially downhill skiing, may be highly dependent on strong leg muscles but overall conditioning builds a routine that burns calories, increases metabolism and can target muscles important for skiing but not usually concentrated on. Building these muscles is important because they surround and stabilize joints.
Summer Hockey for Cross Training
Hockey demands balance, footwork, quickness, in addition to strong aerobic capacity and body awareness in high-speed motion – same as skiing. See how the US Alpine Ski Team uses this different approach to conditioning.
Hockey demands balance, footwork, quickness, in addition to strong aerobic capacity and body awareness in high-speed motion – same as skiing. See how the US Alpine Ski Team uses this different approach to conditioning.
Swimming to Tone Ski Muscles
Swimming has high aerobic value, can quickly burn calories, and can be a great cross training medium for skiing fitness.
Swimming has high aerobic value, can quickly burn calories, and can be a great cross training medium for skiing fitness.
Toe Clip Devices
Toe clip devices add to workout when biking for ski fitness.
Toe clip devices add to workout when biking for ski fitness.