Workout to get ready for your ski trip

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This workout has been specifically designed to get you fit for ski season.

Andrew Edkins, our wellbeing personal trainer from Milton Keynes, recommends doing this workout twice a week for a month ahead of your trip to get you fit for the slopes.

How to perform the exercises

This is not a beginner's workout. If you are inexperienced we recommend getting a tailored programme from a professional personal trainer. 

Steps

Warm up

  • 5 x Squats
  • 10 x Kick sit
  • 5 x Hindu pushup (if this is too challenging a standard pushup will do)
  • 5 x Burpees 

Sets (repeat 3 times)

  • Jumping alternating lunge (1 min with 30 sec rest between sets)
  • Overhead squat with pulse (1 min with 30 sec restbetween sets)
  • Pushup, roll and jump (1 min with 30 sec rest between sets)

Final set (repeat 4 times)

You'll need to find a hill or a quiet spot on the slopes.

  • Bear crawls and run back (1 minute with 30 rest between sets)
  • Hill sprint shuttle runs (1 minute with 30 sec rest between sets)


Last updated Tuesday 5 February 2019

First published on Tuesday 10 November 2015

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