What does your strength training plan consist of?
My strength training plan is written by Shawna Schiller, an incredible coach and high performance director for the US ski team. It involves a warm-up, dynamic movements, isometric holds, quarter squats, one leg exercises, fast pull-ups, med ball slams, core work, and using TRX and bands for resistance. All of these exercises are designed to improve my joint health, tendon strength, balance, hip strength, core stability, upper body strength, and overall full body engagement.
Transcript: "So, my strength training plan is written by to Shawna Schiller. She's amazing. She's an Incredible strength coach and high performance director for the US ski team. So we actually go in phases. So in the spring were building up and trying to make sure that I have all the strength that I need. Then we try to get the muscles. I have incredibly strong and right now we're trying to make them really Snappy and fast. I think that's sort of a high level overview of it, but um, so I warm up for about 30 minutes, it's either a spin bike or run. And then we do a little Dynamic warm-up. We make sure we hit my postural muscles, so a lot of band pulls that activate the muscles in between my shoulder blades to help pull my shoulders back and down. So I don't end up like this from all the cross-country skiing. I want my I want my muscles to be strong so my back can be straight and have good posture. So that's a little bit of the life strength that we do at the start. And then I have a lot of jumps that I I do right now and then we get into some heavier lifting. So right now I'm doing some isometric holds its really working on improving my tendon strength and overall joint health. As well. As then I'm doing some quarter squats. I also do a lot of things that are on one leg to work on balance and hip strength and core stability. I have some really fast pull-ups and Med ball slams for kind of that Snappy. Upper body strength, especially because cross-country skiers need a lot of that lot strength because we do so much of that pulling motion. And then I have a lot of core and a lot of it's very full body courts. Not just sitting on a mat doing sit-ups or crunches but it might be using a TRX. And so my whole body has to be engaged a lot of plank work. We might use bands for resistance and a lot of things where you're putting your body in a position where it needs to work to be. Well, as well."