Hello
everyone with the coming of winter, mountains are getting ready and some are
even opening. This all means that
snowboarding season is upon us. I
absolutely love boarding and am extremely excited for this upcoming season and
feel it is time to prepare. There is
nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of a boarding day and your legs begin to
fatigue and give up on you. This post
will is going to focusing on exercises to help you prepare yourself for a
season of hitting the mountains.
(Sis and I boarding Cayons in Utah))
Training your legs is vitally
important for preparing for the season but I also like to add balancing
exercises to help increase your body’s ability to balance itself. That is why I love this first exercise, the
one leg toe touch with a hop. If you are
a vet of Insanity then you will know what I am talking about. You start off by standing with your feet together and
lift one leg so you knee is at a 90˚ angle. Then bend forward keeping bent leg even with body and touch your toes or the floor
with both hands. Begin coming back up
and when body is in the start position jump.
Start with 10 per side and as you feel comfortable and your leg strength
and balance builds feel free to increase the amount of reps.
The next exercise I like to do
for snowboarding are squats. This
includes regular weighted squats as well as pulsing squats. These squats you start with your feet
shoulder width apart going halfway through the squat so you are in the sit
position and instead of coming back up hold it and start small pulses. Do 5 pulses and on the next one explode jump so your
arms and legs are fully extended where you would resemble a starfish.
Now it's time that we directly attack out
abdominals. For this I love doing
Russian twists. Start off by sitting on
the floor feet flat with knees bent.
Fully extend your arms lean back slightly while lifting your feet and twist
side to side. I also like doing crunches
with 4 twists on a declined bench. Do
10reps per set and increase amount of sets or amount of reps per set. These are great exercises and you stomach will soon be on fire.
Another exercise that are good
for preparing you are walking lunges. I
enjoy these much more than regular lunges.
Walking lunges not only increase your leg strength but also helps you
increase your balance. Start by grabbing
dumbbells or any weighted item that you are comfortable holding for some time. The amount of room you have can determine how
many lunges you can do. Starting with 6-10
reps (keep it even so both legs are strengthened evenly) and if you want to
challenge yourself do 10 lunges in one direction turn around and do 10 more
ending where you began.
It is important that you
remember to exercise your upper body as it helps you with rotating your
body. A good upper body work out are
bench tricep dips with balance ball.
Start by grabbing a bench, a balance ball, and extra weight if you want
more of a challenge. Sit on edge of the
bench and place heels on top of the exercise ball. Dip down and come back up keeping heels on
top of the ball. These help increase
your upper body strength and also helps increase you body’s ability to balance
itself.
These are some of my favorite
exercises to help prepare for the upcoming season. Remember that these are only a few and there
are many more that you can add to your repertoire. Remember stay hydrated and to stretch, who
knows maybe I’ll see you out on the mountain.
Till
next time
Bogo
Out
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