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Gearing up for Winter Sports

1.Stabilize Your Joints

Ski jumping, recovery from a potential fall, or adapting to snow conditions can all stress joints in the hips, knees and ligaments and leg muscles. In situations where you may be off balance with heavy forces, your body will tend to collapse into pronation; drawing the knees inward, causing potential ACL problems. Many injuries don't show up during the activity and may occur while doing something simple like bending over to reach for something and you hear a pop and feel knee pain and then swelling. Functional exercises to stabilize the muscles around the leg and hip joint are important for snow sports. Squats are an excellant example to strengthen these areas.
Since you will need to have endurance also , change up the Tempo by slowing it down
Decend for 6 counts - no rest at the bottom - then accend for 6 counts. Our Russian Kettlebell classes can assist You!!

2. Impr0ve Core Control and Balance

All movement originates from the Core, so you will need to strengthen the abdominal wrap (the girdle around your torso ) Breathing techniques to activate the transverse abdominals, along with core strengthening exercises can get you on your way to better control on the hill.Balance Challenges in our Bosu or Pilates Classes for Mat and Reformer can assist you!!

3. Improve Overall Strength,Power and Eccentric Strength and Endurance

Primal or Essential movements such as squatting, lunging, twisting, bending, pushing and pulling are these.
Modern Bodybuilding Techniques tend to emphasize mass in the upper body which can make your center of gravity unstable, increasing injury risk. Balance the upper and lower body. Especially Men since they are usually larger in the upper body. And Ladies don't be afraid of heavy lifting!! The trick to losing inches, strengthening bones, increasing your metabolic rate is to simply lift Heavy!! We can deliver here at our Russian Kettlebell classes!!

Happy Skiing

On Fitness Jan.07 "Seven chek points for snow sport conditioning