Winter Training Tips
As the cold winter months approach motivation can be difficult to muster.
Here are 3 Winter Training Tips to get you through the winter as fit as ever:
1. Work your quads and glutes. These are essential skiing muscles as well as some of the largest muscles in the body. Working larger muscle groups will burn more calories while strengthening you for the slopes.
Great exercises for quads/glutes: Squats, Step-ups, Lunges, Side shuffles
2. Don’t feel like leaving the house? Do bodyweight exercises. When doing bodyweight exercises always complete the maximum amount of reps possible for your body.
Bodyweight Exercises: Push-ups, Pull-ups, Squats, Lunges, Squat Jumps, Plank, Side Plank, Floor Bridge
3. Interval train! When doing cardio you will burn the most calories in the least amount of time by interval training.
Example Intervals: Warm up 1o minutes. Complete 10x[1min hard 1 min easy] Cool down as needed.
Uncategorized | emarston December 8, 2010