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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing
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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing

    By Rob Price

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    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing is the most comprehensive and up-to-date skiing-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round skiing-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.
    No other skiing book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book enables skiers of all types to increase strength, flexibility, and speed, resulting in higher jumps, quicker runs, and overall success on the slopes. The programs also help raise endurance and helps prevent injuries.

    Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781936910847
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing

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      The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing - Rob Price

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      SKIING

      second edition

      Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician. You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training.

      Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the reader’s discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other negative effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.

      Published by Price World Publishing

      1300 W. Belmont Ave, Suite 20g

      Chicago, IL 60657

      Copyright © 2008 by Robert G. Price CPT.

      All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form without permission.

      Book design by Jocelyn H. Hermozada

      Cover design by Alexandru Dan Georgescu

      Interior photographs by Marc Gollub

      Editing by Barb Greenberg

      Editing and proofreading by Maryanne Haselow-Dulin

      Printing by Express Media

      Second Edition, 2008

      ISBN: 978-1-936910-84-7

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2008923033

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

      The

      Ultimate Guide to

      WEIGHT

      TRAINING

      for

      SKIING

      second edition

      Robert G. Price CPT

      CONTENTS

      Part I

      SKIING-SPECIFIC TRAINING

      Introduction

      Muscular Endurance Training

      Explosive-Power Training

      Year-Round Skiing Program

      Power and Agility Training for Skiing

      Preventing the Annoying Groin Injury

      Protein: How Much is Enough?

      Post-Workout Recovery: A Must for Athletes

      Sports Drinks and Rehydration

      Pre-Event Fueling for Peak Performance

      Breakfast: Is It the Most Important Meal?

      Part II

      GETTING STARTED

      Warming Up

      Cooling Down

      Abs

      Stretching

      Proper Form

      Proper Breathing

      Part III

      RECOMMENDED EXERCISES

      Substituting Similar Exercises

      Chest Exercises

      Back (Lats) Exercises

      Shoulders Exercises

      Triceps Exercises

      Biceps/Forearms Exercises

      Legs Exercises

      Part IV

      THE NECESSITIES

      Perfecting Your Technique

      Estimating Your One-Rep Max

      The Different Folks, Different Strokes Principle

      Overtraining and Staleness

      The Declaration of Variation

      Muscle Fibers

      Training Techniques

      When to Increase

      Safety Reminders

      Record Keeping

      Test Yourself

      Conclusion

      Part V

      SUPPLEMENTAL 4-WEEK PROGRAMS

      Endurance/Stamina/Fat-burning Programs

      General Fitness/Power Programs

      Strength Programs

      Part I

      SKIING

      Specific

      Training

      With Weight

      Training,

      KNOWLEDGE

      IS THE KEY

      TO SUCCESS

      INTRODUCTION

      By opening The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing, you have taken your first step towards achieving your athletic potential. This book is loaded with the most up-to-date sports weight-training information and features a year-round skiing-specific weight-training program. Upon completion of the text, you will know how to properly, safely, and effectively perform over 80 exercises and you will be ready to begin your training.

      The most important part of this book is the skiing-specific weight-training program itself, which begins on page 6. This program was created for one reason and one reason only; to improve your skiing potential. It does this by increasing your strength, explosion, power, endurance, and flexibility in the parts of your body that are most important for skiing. The program has been created to supply you with the advantage you will need to outperform all of your opponents. By following the program, you will build your muscles with strength, endurance, and power. When called upon, you will be physically prepared and mentally ready to compete at the highest of your potential.

      Although the sport of skiing is primarily a sport focusing on leg strength and endurance, there are certain upper-body muscle groups should not be ignored in order to achieve your maximum potential. The year-round program in this book does not overlook the importance of these muscle groups and has you training your entire body in order to maximize your potential.

      This book does not teach you how to perform specific movements. It does not show you the best strategies to out-ski your opponents, nor does it give you any tips to improve your specific skills. This book does, however, provide you with the best methods, programs, and strategies available to physically improve your body and maximize your skiing potential.

      MUSCULAR ENDURANCE TRAINING

      The first and third routines of the off-season cycle are to enhance your muscular endurance. Weight training for muscular endurance differs greatly from strength and power training. Strength training builds up size, bulk, and strength; power training builds explosion, speed, and intensity; and endurance training builds your stamina by enabling your muscles to work longer without fatiguing. Weight training to increase your muscular endurance requires many slow movement repetitions to train and build your slow-twitch muscle fibers, which are responsible for increased endurance and stamina.

      The keys to endurance training are as follows:

      Low weight, high reps: Proper endurance training calls for lifting light weights many times. Weights that are less than 60% of your one-rep max are ideal. With more repetitions comes increased muscular endurance, or the ability of your muscles to operate at a high level over time. Every additional repetition helps to increase your muscular endurance. Typically, sets involving at least 20 repetitions are considered to be training your muscular endurance.

      Great form and concentration: While training for any purpose, great form and concentration are a must. Endurance training is no exception. To get the most of your endurance training, you must breathe properly and perform the exercise with smooth, rhythmic lifts.

      Proper breathing: Breathing properly is extremely important in endurance training. As you perform repetition after repetition, your instincts will be to hold your breath. With each and every rep, be sure to inhale while lowering the weight on the eccentric movement and exhale while raising the weights on the concentric movement. Never hold your breath.

      Smooth rhythmic lifts: In endurance training, the lowering, negative part, of every rep should last at least two seconds and the raising, positive part, should be at least one second. The goal is to keep this rhythm from your first rep to your last to ensure a great workout.

      Short rest times: To get the most out of endurance training, it is best if you take short rest times between sets. This gives lifting aerobic benefits because it leads to a more continuous, less sporadic workout, which keeps your heart rate up. To ensure optimal results while training for endurance, take no more than sixty seconds of rest time between sets.

      EXPLOSIVE-POWER TRAINING

      The second and fourth routines of the cycle are designed to build speed and explosive-power. The important aspects to explosive-power training are:

      Medium weights, medium reps: Training for power is quite different than training for strength. For strength training, the idea is to lift heavy weights a

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