Weight Training for Skiers

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Greg Koenig owner of fitness for life. And today we are going to discuss weight training for skiers. There are a few different types of exercises, actually a variety of different exercises that you can use to increase your strength and or functionality as far as training goes for skiers. One of the particular movements that Sarah is going to demonstrate is what I call a and this is used for a variety of different sports, is a lateral bosu ball bound. Sarah is going to demonstrate the movement by starting with her left leg which is going to have the majority of the load. Now basically the muscles engaged are quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, glutes and also the core. Core comes into play because of all the instability when she lands on the side to push back off. Inner outer thigh, abduction, adduction, is also a big move for, now what we are trying to do is simulate as much of an actual ski as we can. This would be considered dry land ski training. Sarah is going to demonstrate the movement now. You can see how she is landing on the instep of the ball which is propelling her back to the other side. And you can see the ankle instability involved, very hard move. And this is not a move that you perfect, the instability ball is meant for that purpose. To create the instability so we get a lot of firing of a lot of different muscles. Three more Sarah. You can see her arms coming out to her side to try to keep her stabilized. This is Greg Koenig with fitness for life and this concludes our session talk on weight training for skiers."