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Skiing: keep fit
There are two main ways for skiers and snowboarders to stay in shape for your next trip to the mountain.
First is to maintain aerobic fitness and cardiovascular training are important during the summer and autumn to maintain the cardio-respiratory. This can achieved through running, jogging, cycling or swimming, provided that these activities maintain a high enough heart for a sufficient period over time (usually 160 beats per minute for half an hour three times a week).
Most gyms or fitness centers and health clubs will be established wall exactly what your heart rate during exercise should be for their age. Training Regular make it much easier to maintain cardiovascular conditioning. But he escaped and good work is irreversible and soon you will find yourself having to build its new vascular fitness.
Another element of maintaining the capacity for next season is to work the quadriceps strength, large muscles of your body in the thigh. This can be achieved through a series Simple home exercise, such as the adoption position of the chair against the wall, with the largest variation in the gym, like squats with weights or machines to strengthen the isokinetic leg.
The Most now have fully equipped gyms or coaches instructions that can demonstrate that particular groups in isokinetic muscle machines are designed to strengthen.
I would say that, in partnership with the completion of cardiovascular training three times a week to strengthen and maintain quadriceps mass / volume of a series of exercises.
Regarding the upcoming season we'll see how exercise can help prevent the most common injuries suffered by skiers and snowboarders. We also give advice on what to do if you're unlucky enough suffer from these injuries.
By far the most commonly injured joint in these days is the knee. A range of intra-articular lesions may occur at the knee, like lesions of cartilage and ligament tears.
Of these injuries is damage to the ligaments of the knee carry the worst prognosis.
The Future issues will explore the latest management techniques for the misfortune of suffering a cruciate ligament injury.
According to an article Originally published in The Skier & Snowboarder Magazine, Spring 1998
About the Author
Mr Simon Moyes MB FRCS FRCSOrth is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Wellington & Devonshire Hospitals, London and webmaster of www.simonmoyes.com which is the source of this article.
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