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Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Long & Strong 23

Fitness for ski instructor training long and strong 23 is again focused on adding a few extra kilos to your squats. Remember form is always more important than weight moving the weight effectively through a full range of motion is far more effective…
Pull ups

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Long and Strong 24

Todays fitness for ski instructor training session is a repeat of session 4, so you will be able to see how far you have come. It is going to test your ability to keep putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward and really work…

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Active recovery basics

Welcome to Fitness for ski instructor training Session 21 and week 6. After 5 weeks of training at a fairly high intensity week 6 is going to be a deload week. The purpose of this week is to make sure that we give our muscles plenty of time…
A demo video for the Box Squat an exercise in this fitness for ski instructor training blog

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 1

Welcome to the first training session of the summer. The aim of these sessions is to help you prepare physically for your ski instructor training. We gave you Monday off but do not get used to that. This is the first session of a 5-week programme…
How to perform a dumbbell snatch. Dumbbell snatches are a great way to improve pwerful extension of the hip used in skiing

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 2 3/6/15

Welcome to session 2. Todays work out does include include any heavy weights or barbells and instead our focus today is on conditioning. The aim of these sessions is to allow you to eventually maintain a higher level of performance for longer.…

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 3

Welcome to session 3 of our ski fitness for instructor training blogs. As we mentioned the aim of these next 5 weeks is to develop a base level ski fitness and a good solid foundation to work from. Today's session focuses on upper body strength.…
Fitness for Ski Instructor Training

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 4

So the weekend is finally here and so is the final session before a few days off. This final session of the week moves away from quite normal programming we have had so far where you do x number of sets of x number of reps and starts to look…
when training for skiing it is important to remember your hamstrings. An imbalance between hamstring and quad strength can be costly

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 5 8/6/15

Hi all, we hope you have enjoyed a few days off and that any aching muscles are starting to recover. It is really important to warm up and cool down thoroughly when training like this. Your warm up and cool down should include range of motion…

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 6 9/6/15

Session 6 is a lung buster. Today we are going to be looking at conditioning again, dig deep and push through the pain. The aim is to keep moving and only rest when the programme says. Try not to get to focused on the number of reps you complete…

Fitness for Ski Instructor Training: Session 7

Welcome to session 7. Hopefully by now you are starting to feel more at home with the language and terminology we are using and it is all starting to feel more natural. If you have fallen behind or just fancy starting a fresh, all of the workout…