Product Description

Hit the powder like an X-Game athlete

You have to be in shape to carve the slopes well and avoid injury. Fit to Ski & Snowboard shows you how to get healthy for the slopes with exercises to strengthen your muscles, increase endurance, stretch and loosen stiff joints, and improve balance and reactions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23264 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover

Hit the slopes with greater strength, balance, and endurance than ever before

Whether you're a weekend warrior or an advanced athlete, Fit to Ski and Snowboard helps you create the ideal conditioning program for your body and your needs. You can do these personalized workouts at the gym or at home, tracking your progress with the workout log and muscle chart. You'll be amazed how much you can:

• Improve your balance with wobble board and stability ball exercises
• Strengthen and protect your back using core training techniques
• Gain quicker reactions through plyometrics
• Increase your flexibility with sun salutations and stretches

With this all-in-one fitness handbook, you're sure to be in peak condition next time you challenge the peaks.

". . . packed with exercises that let athletes tap their maximum potential before the snow flies."
--R. Mark Elling, author of The All-Mountain Skier

"Rocky's training tactics will help you improve fast!"
--Jeff Bennett, coauthor of The Complete Snowboarder

Rocky Snyder has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Certified Personal Trainer since 1993. Named Best Personal Trainer of Santa Cruz County for four straight years, he is the author of Fit to Paddle and Fit to Surf. He lives in Aptos, California.

About the Author

Rocky Snyder has been a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and a Certified Personal Trainer since 1993. Named Best Personal Trainer of Santa Cruz County for four straight years, he is the author of Fit to Paddle and Fit to Surf. He lives in Aptos, California.

Customer Reviews

A valuable addition to your snowsports knowledge
Great read. A very informative book and a must for anyone from complete newcomers to either sport to seasoned riders/skiers looking to improve their workouts and exercise routines for maximum impact on their snowboarding or skiing. Just as it says in the blurb above: flexibility, endurance, strength, balance and plyometric training are all introduced to the reader, and expanded upon to include examples as to why each of these is important in both sports. Exercises are demonstrated by use of extensive, step-by-step photos, with information on muscles worked etc., as well as suggestions to increase effectiveness as you progress.

The book seems to have a slight snowboard-dominant slant in terms of the balance exercises involved, though this may just be because I am a snowboarder rather than a skier and have therefore read it in that way. Just as a note - if you are just starting out snowboarding and looking at this book to get fit as you learn, it would go great with Kevin Ryan's "The Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding". I read this book before I started riding 6 years ago and it was extremely useful (it doesn't focus on fitness as such but is an essential learning aid).