Are You Ready for Ski Season? Part 3 – Balance Training
This is the third blog in a series of four related to the important aspects of training to prepare you for skiing and snowboarding. The topics covered so far have been endurance and strength. Please refer back to the posts on these topics if you are interested! Balance This week I am going to talk about balance. This may be an obvious one, but you need to have good balance for skiing and snowboarding! Mountains are riddled with unexpected obstacles and you need to be able to react to these appropriately so that you can reduce your risk of injury. First things first. You need to know the different components of balance so you can assess which ones you are good at or need to improve. There are three main components to balance: visual, vestibular, and somatosensory. You use all three of these systems to different degrees depending on the conditions. It is important to train all of them so you can handle whatever situation you find yourself in. For example, if you close your eye...