You have let skiing inspire your workouts in the gym and have worked hard to build up muscular strength, endurance, and power in spades. The next question is how do you maintain it all season long?
Now that you're on snow, there are three things you need to do consistently. Like sharp edges, we need to make sure we're tuning up our fitness throughout the season so that it continues to serve us all of winter.
Training Tip 1: Ski Mobility Training
Throughout ski season, you really want to pay attention to your feet, ankles, and hip flexors. My advice is to tailor your mobility training to complement skiing, focusing on these key areas.
Here at WILDR, we have many 6-minute Mobility Follow Along videos that can help you focus on different movements and parts of the body regardless of activity, and we have a selection of mobility videos perfect for skiers.
With our feet in ski boots, we need to make sure that we keep up our plantar flexion and dorsiflexion through those ankles throughout the winter. No matter how comfortable or properly fitted your ski boots are, they are still reducing the range of motion that our feet can move through throughout the day. So we need to spend some time expanding them and strengthening those feet after a day on the slopes.
Training Tip 2: Work 5 Muscular Capabilities Each Week
Every week I want to make sure that I'm working on my muscular capabilities. I do this by working on:
Moving through my entire range of motion
Muscular endurance (both anaerobically and aerobically)
Muscular size
Strength
Power
That doesn't mean you have to do a workout for each one of these muscular capabilities each week. In fact, your recreation counts towards making sure you maintain your muscular ability. So maybe I didn't lift for power in the gym, but while skiing I did hop turns that made sure I kept that power up.
Remember, it takes way less work to maintain a muscular ability than it does to initially build it. Anything that I don't get through my recreation, I can do in a workout to tell my body that I want that ability.
Through the WILDR fitness app, we go through a questionnaire each week to figure out what muscular capabilities we've hit and what ones we need to address in the gym. You can try out The Crew for seven days to see if it's a good fit for you
Training Tip 3: Go Play
My third thing is to explore when you're on the mountain. Go ahead and use those muscular abilities that you've built in the gym! Now that you have more strength and power and endurance, that might change the ways that you can interact with the mountain. Our whole definition of fitness here at WILDR is that fitness is your capacity to explore and interact with the world around you. So go and play!
Have a WILDR week!
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