Good Preseason Workouts for Skiing?

It's normally just as a warm up but my pt and my surgeon have been really agressive. Like started running at around 2.5 months out as already my mechanics are perfect and Ive progressed about twice as fast as my pt thought I would on the return to running program. Assuming it stays like this, I ahold be leaded to ski pretty 6 mo to the day from surgery, but I'm shooting for a week before that

Any sport is easier with lower body fat percentage that is the only benifit I can imagine from doing cardio. as for the strength training, I have seen professional race skiers train and they train more for general skills like agility, flexibility and balance than for strength, the way I have seen them lift heavy weights does seem to put emphasis on reducing injury. The same race skiers, train on the mountain every day too, I still believe that they are good at skiing because they are able to ski hard every day(thanks to the training they do,) not because squats made them strong.

I do dry land traning, not really thinking much about skiing, just thinking about getting stronger. I do this, I get stronger but I haven't noticed any effect on my skiing;

Monday: Front Squat, Clean, Bent row, parallel bar Dips
Wednesday: Back Squat, Clean and Press, Chin Ups, Leg lowers
Friday: Daed Lift, Snatch, Bench, Cable Wood Chop

For the first 3 exercise every day I do 4-6 reps for 3 sets, the last one 8-12 for 3 sets. On Tue, Thu and Sat I do HIIT on an exercise bike.

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Wow and I wasn't even drunk when I wrote this. Fuckin iphone autocorrect

You appear to be contradicting yourself.

Yah i thought so too until the day I hike a fuckin rail at breck...

Squats, dead lifts, calf raises, box jumps. Then I try to work my way up to 15mins of the invisible chair ( have no idea if that what it's really called, but when you lean up against the wall and it looks like your sitting on a chair).

Also I do the elepictical in reverse with high resistance. Those last two are going to prepare you the most for those leg burners.

I have no problem skiing a whole run but I can't run 2 miles without feeling suicidal, I don't like hiking a rail either, maybe you could benifit from cardio on that one?

You appear to not understand. I mean that training does not increase how hard you can ski, it just allows you to use your potential with less risk of injury. The racers I talk of would get fucked up and die if they fell having done no training, but they may well have been able to ski just as good.

They are called wall sits, however invisible chair sounds a bit more fun. 15 minutes of those is almost too long, I do 5 minute bursts...you can do more.

i cycle a mtb to work most days and on the run up to ski season i will be letting a little air out of the tyres and keeping it in a high gear, really gets the legs burning!

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See this guy gets it. BALANCE people, BALANCE, we are going up and coming down. Landing. stabilizing. strong