| Title | Topic | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Feel Your Way to Better Skiing and Riding |
Improve your skiing and riding by feeling your proper body position from the feet up. This can help with basic body position or harder to master skills such as weight distribution in moguls or when carving. It can help better feel the balance on while working on your skate skiing, which can lead to nice improvements in efficiency. |
All Levels |
| Strong Ski Legs with Shuffle Jumps |
Explosive, lateral jumps, for 1-2 minutes are a great exercise for building power-endurance in the legs. Essential for alpine skiers, this is also useful for tele skiers and for building a strength base for skate skiers. |
All Levels |
| Sloppy Start to a Better Ski Day |
Once you've warmed up your muscles a bit and done some stretching, you're ready to ski. The last step in your warmup routine should involve skiing, but start out sloppy and messy rather than trying to get it right from the get go. |
All Levels |
| Better Balance with the Paper Bag Game |
A fun party game of balance and leg strength. Nobody but you has to know that this is training — everyone else can just think it's fun (because it is). |
All Levels |
| Preseason Training and Your ACL |
You will often hear that preseason training will prevent ski injury. In many cases, that's true, but sadly, no exercise will guarantee that you won't tear and ACL. Here's a brief presentation of the available research on training levels and ACL injury for skiers. |
All Levels |
| Feather Jumps |
A simple jump, but technique is important. This is especially useful for untrained women who tend to have poor jump mechanics. |
All Levels |
| Put Your Best Foot Forward: Preseason foot and ankle exercises for skiers |
Most people focus their ski training on building powerful legs. That's all well and good, as long as you don't forget the feet. Without a strong platform to stand on, those strong legs will only do so much good. |
All Levels |
| Dynamic Fitness for Dynamic Skiers |
Skiing is a dynamic sport that requires a functional and dynamic training program. |
All Levels |
| Boot Packing and Backcountry Etiquette |
With more and more people skiing the backcountry and hike-to resort terrain, it's important to know a bit of basic etiquette on crowded skin tracks and boot packs. |
All Levels |
| Sideslipping Away |
Sideslipping is one of downhill skiing's fundamental skills, whether you downhill on alpine or telemark gear. Not only does it get you out of trouble on hard terrain, it teaches you fundamental edge control and stance skills. Surprisingly, though, I often come across even intermediate skiers who haven't truly learned this skill. |
All Levels |