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Not Your Typical Doctor’s Notes
We are people with a passion for helping. We are athletes. Have been there at some point. Understand the frustration.
We’re compelled to figure out why and how to fix it. Students of human movement. Laborers - manual workers. Inventive - as each person, each body structure and composition and goals within are unique and different.
Many of you know the importance of strength training for skiing. Whether you do it because you know it decreases your risk of injury, or simply because your legs don’t get as sore, you understand that there are benefits.
However, the buck doesn’t stop with just strength training. While it is undoubtedly an essential aspect of ski preparation and decreasing your risk of sustaining injury, there is another aspect of training that is often overlooked or neglected completely.
There is a little known secret that elite athletes have been using to maintain running/racing fitness while temporarily sidelined. Enter - Deep Water Running (DWR). In fact, Olympic runner, Mary Decker Slaney set a world record at 2,000 meters after a month in the pool and only one dry land workout prior to her race!
