Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training...) (Paperback)

by Robert G. Price (Author) "Warming up is an essential part of a weight-training routine..." (more)
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I'm concentrating on alpine skiing because I am going to be a ski patroller this winter. I think that your skiing book is great. The book has given me a plan to improve myself instead of trying anything and everything. I love the simplicity of the programs and yet it's completeness. Thank you and continue your great work. --Linda J

Product Description
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skiing is the most comprehensive and up-to-date skiing-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round skiing-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other skiing book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book enables skiers of all types to increase strength, flexibility, and speed, resulting in higher jumps, quicker runs, and overall success on the slopes. The programs also help raise endurance and helps prevent injuries.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Sportsworkout.com; 2 edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549595
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549591
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #185,596 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing , March 29, 2009

By	Michael Weinstein (Glenwood Springs, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Disappointing

When the Soviets tested potential ski racers the key desirable capability they were looking for was leg strength (60%) with specific focus on explosive power (plyometrics). The remaining attributes tested for were skeletal alignment (posture), flexibility, balance, reaction speed, and range of movement from center core through the hips, knees and feet (joints) - with special attention paid to range of dorsa flexion.

BTW neither the Soviets nor anybody else cares about upper body strength other than how it might be tweaked to improve posture or overly trained which might negatively affect flexibility.

So you would think a book so targeted to weight training for skiers would focus on lower body strength with special emphasis on enhancing both flexibility and range of motion. And would most certainly reference the bio mechanics required to be a good skier. "The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training" ignores all these frames.

Rather it is a standard rehash for a general strength program - it might as well been written and targeted for badminton players and weekend anything.