How To Avoid Missing Another Skiing Day With Weak Legs that can’t ski more than a few hours!

Don’t miss another skiing day with weak legs that can’t ski more than a few hours!

Every time I read a ski magazine or see another so called “skier” recommending ski-specific workouts, I have to recoil in distaste when I see some of the exercises recommended! After all, isn’t the design of an effective skier fitness training program to reduce injuries while simultaneously building incredible strength and endurance in your legs and stomach?

Of course that’s the desire… we all want to ski the slopes as long as possible, avoiding the dreaded “jello legs” that might stop our day of skiing early, and also prevent those nagging injuries that might end our season early.

The problem I’ve seen with classical workout routines that are being recommended for skiers are that they not only use ineffective exercises that don’t carry over that well to actual skiing leg movements, but also may even be lining you up for an injury. For example, if you’ve seen workout programs that are recommending machine leg presses, machine leg extensions, and machine leg curls, please run from that workout recommendation quickly! It will only align you up for injury, and won’t even assist in your achievement of strength and endurance that’s actually applicable to downhill skiing movements.

Likewise if you see trainers recommending smith machine squats or any smith machine exercises whatsoever… they should all be abandoned as smith machine movements follow unnatural movement patterns (not bio-mechanically exact) that can create extensive stress on the back and possible back injury or knee injury.

Now what about wall squats? Well, although almost every skiing fitness exercise routine in existence seems to recommend this exercise for skiers, I don’t find it to be preferable. I will say that it’s a good idea compared to the machine-based exercises that I mentioned previously. However, wall squats are still not a truly important exercise that carry over directly to strength and endurance throughout the range of motion that the legs use during skiing. This exercise can be somewhat effective since even an isometric exercise held for endurance in one joint angle will still carry over to a slightly wider range of motion in that joint, but I actually have at least a dozen exercises that are really more effective than wall squats.

One of the other major shortcomings that I’ve found with typical ski workout fitness programs is that they often fail to achieve a proper joint and strength balance (proper strength ranges between quadriceps, hamstrings, etc). Although skiing demands a great deal of work from your quadriceps and not as much work from your hamstrings and glutes, it is still extremely important in the prevention of injuries to maintain proper strength ratios between all of the muscle groups of the lower body and also make sure the tiny stabilizer muscles around the joints are strengthened coprrectly. This is yet another point that’s lacking in most skier workout routines.

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The skiing season is almost upon us here in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario, Canada and has already started in some other areas of South Central Ontario, so get ready for it now!

Cheers,

Fred