Wow if you try to do these exercises you will appreciate the strength and balance it takes to be a ski racer. This is only in the gym so if you fail it’s no big deal. On the hill if you fail you fall and that has serious consequences. Thanks Deb for the insight into training for world class athletes. Just my personal opinion but ski racing produces great skiers. Some of the best professional free skiers come from a racing background.
I'm amazed as I am doing the usual strength training, and these exercises are so new to me but I see tremendous benefit. I went skiing now for 4 days and it was my first time. It was great. Looking forward to going again and implementing these exercises prior. Thank you dear Deb! I will take a look at your channel for some skiing technique progressions. I practiced the 2 leg snow plough, turns with it, 1 leg snow plough, turns with it, then 1 leg turns with parallel tracking to the opposite side of the track, and finally did some parallel turning. Cleared all but black tracks on the mountain as well :D
My thought would be to train the brain to be forward on the hill. You really need to be angled perpendicular to the slope (Avery difficult at high speeds and steep), and being on the balls of the feet shifts the stance forward, and deep knees allow for muscle engagement to absorb terrain variance. My $.02
it is because when skiing you want your hips in front of your feet (except really if you are in neutral) so that makes you forward. this is trying to simulate a ski turn
Depends on one's level of strength and joint mobility, I'm sure. An advanced ski racer has plenty of both and can handle the stress on the knee ligaments that comes from being on his/her toes. For those of us not quite at that level, proceeding with caution is a sound approach.
