SKIING IS HEALTHY AND USEFUL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR THE WHOLE BODY, SPIRIT AND PSYCHE.

Recreational skiing is an active holiday were you are renewing your energy that is required for your work.

Skiing activates all the muscles in your body, especially the legs and arms.  

Strong muscles keep our joints and bones and thus prevent the faster aging of cartilage, tendons and joint connections. In addition, muscular activity helps build a skeleton, so that in the younger age creates bone capital, and in old age slows the development of osteoporosis. Skiing is increasing mobility of our joints and entire body so that it increases the functional capacity of the cardiovascular system, lungs and active daily living.

During skiing, there is increased secretion of "happiness hormone" which further enhances our better mood.

In addition to riding down the slope, during the skiing you can climb, turn, walk and fall and all those activities will activate different muscle groups. Whether you are a pro or a beginner, you are asked a multitude of motor skills like strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and ability to sudden changes of direction. Taking into account these movements, your body needs a good preparation to avoid injury musculoskeletal system.

Preparation should be thorough and proper, with the advice of professionals, especially for those who previously had a variety of injuries or damage to muscles, tendons, joints or bone fractures.

Preparation for winter should start right after the summer holidays. It is necessary to strengthen the whole body, not just the leg muscles that are taking the biggest strain.

SKITRACK ski school, within its project SKI GYM, helps you how to prepare before going to the snow or how to keep your fitness throughout the whole year.

SKI GYM Components

AEROBIC EXERCISES

ANAEROBIC EXERCISES

COORDINATION AND MOTOR SKILLS

STRETCHING EXERCISES

During an hour of skiing you spend on average around 750 calories.

If you are only casually skiing, you burn about 500 calories per hour of activity, if you approach skiing in a more active manner, with possibility of climbing the hills on skis, you can burn up to 900 calories per hour.

Do not let your holiday go to waste because of your poor physical shape, and instead of you being on the track you end up in your hotel room with painful inflammation.

Remember:

Poor fitness and unprepared muscles lead to rapid fatigue that can result in a injury.

Important:

Before going out to the track, beside the preparation and review of your ski equipment you need to warm up for a few minutes and do light stretching, all with purpose of relaxing your muscles.

Assistance with injury:

Injuries of the musculoskeletal system are treated as a rule of PRICE: protection, rest, ice massage, then apply cream for sports injuries with compression elastic bandage with raising the injured body part.

Deformation of body parts, arms and legs, dizziness or paralysis require urgent medical review. Pain that lasts more than three to five days requires a medical checkup by a specialist. If you ignore the treatment, you can gain a lasting consequences, that can always come back and haunt you next time you go skiing or do some other physical activity.

Recommendation:

To your ski trip you should bring a regular elastic bandage, plasters, painkillers, vitamins, aspirin and creams for sun burns and injuries.