The best way (besides a cup of coffee) to start out a day on the slopes is with a warmup! As with other sports, warming up is a preventative measure that gets your body ready to get moving. Spending 10-15 minutes warming up might prevent an injury later on in the day, or just let you stay out on the snow longer.
Four phases of the warmup:
- Balance work-- Take several seconds to simply stand and balance on one foot. This will help your body make balance adjustments. Feel how the weight falls over the support leg/foot. The same thing happens during your winter sports — movement from one foot to the other, only with a lot more leveraging, power and force because of equipment.
- Limbering movements-- Include small, isolated movements to loosen up the ankles, knees, hips, lower back, and shoulders. You can do side reaches, arm circles, shoulder shrugs, leg swings, trunk twists, pelvic rotations and half squats.
- Skill rehearsal-- Improve the accuracy, timing and coordination of sport skills by taking a couple of warmup runs on gentle terrain.
- Stretch-- end your warmup with some basic stretches, then suit up and get out there!
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