SKI & Snowboarding Exercise #1: Box Drill

Speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) training allows you to enhance your ability to accelerate, decelerate, and dynamically stabilize the entire body during higher-velocity acceleration and deceleration movements in all places of motion (such as running, cutting and changing direction).  SAQ training helps the nervous system to respond or react more efficiently to demands placed on it and enhance muscular recruitment and coordination when performed with correct mechanics.

For weight loss, coordination and injury prevention, and especially for sports-specific training such as skiing and snowboarding, SAQ can be fantastic. It can also mix up a mundane routine. SAQ training will help you absorb the various terrain changes such as bumps, jumps and backcountry riding. SAQ training helps the nervous system to respond or react more efficiently to demands placed on it and enhance muscular recruitment and coordination when performed with correct mechanics. 

Please consult a physician before trying this exercise or starting a new physical exercise program.

Set up your cones or other markers about 12-15ft away from each other. Try 3-10 rounds with 30 seconds work and 30 seconds rest. As you build your endurance, you can increase the number of rounds you do or the length of time for each round. Make sure you are staying in a squat position when you touch the cone.