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Skiing Fitness: Reach your Potential on the Slopes
By Mark Hines (Paperback – 31st October 2006)

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Whether you are a first time skier or regularly take to the slopes, your chances of an enjoyable – and injury free – holiday are greatly enhanced if you prepare for the physical exertion of skiing. This book offers readers a fitness programme specifically designed for the rigours of skiing. The book begins with an overview of the most common injuries that skiers suffer, plus a look at what areas of fitness you need to focus on in order to get the most out of your skiing – strength, CV fitness and flexibility. The book has two sections, one aimed at those new to skiing and one aimed at the more advanced skier. Both sections will include programmes to be undertaken in the months and weeks leading up to the skiing trip, but there will also be year round programmes that can be incorporated into the reader's regular exercise programme, offering year round skiing
fitness.

Author’s Review

If you want to improve your physical ability to perform in sports, or to reduce your risk of injury, then it is essential that the exercise programme be tailored specifically for that sport. Unfortunately, many sports specific exercise programmes miss the mark by a mile. It is not sufficient to think that skiing uses the legs, and therefore any leg exercises will do. Skiing Fitness introduces both a new concept of exercise, and provides the best series of exercise progression for skiing ever published. Skiing Fitness contains detailed information on common skiing injuries, exercise programmes that can be completed in the home or at the gym, and tips about nutrition. Moreover, this book will give you the physical ability to be better at skiing, whether you are an absolute novice or an international competitor.