Written by Mark from Peak Condition Program 1 This program is all about teaching you some vital ski-specific movement patterns and ensuring your back, hip, pelvic and knee stabilisers and abdominal wall are functioning. These are all vital aspects of “base conditioning” for skiing and will help support your body while perfecting the movements and…

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses Welcome to session 15 of our Fitness for Ski Instructor Training blogs. Today we are back looking at upper body movements. We are going to start with a few push up variations that are designed to test your core strength, mobility and coordination before moving on to a few…

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses Todays Fitness for Ski Instructor Training session is short and sharp. There are no fancy movements, heavy weights or weights at all for that matter. As with all of our conditioning sessions the aim is to keep moving and rest only when planned, forgot about the number of reps…

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses The weeks really are flying by. Welcome to week 4 of our Fitness for Ski Instructor Training programme. With just two weeks of our first 5 week mini cycle to go we are starting to look at using some heavier weights. As we introduce heavier weights into our training it…

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses It is the weekend! Session 12 brings with it the end of week 3 so lets keep this short and sharp so we can head out and enjoy the awesome weather we are forecast. In todays Fitness for ski instructor training we are using complex sets again so make…

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses Welcome to session 11 of our series on Fitness for Ski Instructor Training. We are past the half way point and you should be starting to notice that things are getting slightly easier. Movements should be starting to feel more natural and some of the positions that are tough…

We have reached the half way point of our first block of fitness programmes for skiing and ski instructor training. Congratulations on making it this far, hopefully you have enjoyed it and are starting to develop an understanding of what you can do to improve your fitness. If this is the first of these blogs you have come across and you would like to know more make sure you have a look at the Fitness for Ski Instructor Trainingpart of our website.

Todays session is going to use a mixture of a target number of reps but also a time limit. Effectively the faster you complete the prescribed work the longer you will get to rest, fail to complete all the work and you will get no rest at all. Push hard get the reps and strive to get a break each round.

Written by New Generation Instructor Courses Welcome to week 3 of our Fitness for Ski Instructor Training base level fitness programme. As we said when we began the aim of this 5 weeks worth of work is to develop a base level of fitness as well as a knowledge of the movements and terminology we…