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Training For An Enjoyable Ski Season

I know… you may think that this blog is a little on the early side considering we’re days away from labor day, but If you’re like me then your body has felt the consequences of an unprepared ski season launch. It’s never too early to begin preparing for the upcoming ski season. If you love skiing as much as I do, you are going to want your body to be functional when you get up on those slopes. You may have waited several seasons to enjoy the thrill of tearing through some fresh powder, the last thing you want to do is to get injured at the beginning of the season. I wrote this blog to help you understand the key components to a good preseason warm up that will help you avoid pain & injury, and prepare for an enjoyable and successful season. Consider these components as you engage in a preseason training program.

1. Muscle Solicitation

Lots of muscle solicitation means
having all your muscle fibers “turned on”. Your quads, back, and abs
are core muscle groups that are used in skiing. Focus on these muscle groups as
you train. Your brain will be able to recognize that these fibers are turned on
and it will know that it can use them.

2. Static Holding

Along with all the movement in skiing,
there’s also lots of “holding your body” in place. If your body is
not prepared to endure the demanding static holding that keeps you upright and
agile then you can be sure that you will feel the pain in your muscles after a
long day on the slopes.

3. Body Balance

You want the forces in your body to
transfer properly. If the forces in your body are not dissipating as they
should then you will experience knee pain, and back pain. A good stretching
program will help your balance.

4. Joint Spacing

A good stretching program will also open the spaces in your joints. Open spacing in your joints will enhance the communication, awareness, and performance of the fine motor movements that your joints are responsible for.

Be proactive in your preseason preparations. Stop procrastinating and start working at your training program now. Your body will thank you for the lack of injuries, and you will thank your body for an improved performance. This may seem elementary but it will be the difference between a short, painful, grueling season, and a long, enjoyable, and successful season. Start having fun as soon as you get out on those slopes. I hope you have found this helpful. Good luck.

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Advance Past The Roadblocks In Your Body

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Your Body Systems Are Like Links In A Chain

Everything is linked together.

When you’re moving around and play with your kids or doing your activities or working out you have to understand that all these different linked areas need to coordinate it and work with each other.

If you want to better your body and make sure that you stay balanced holistically and you make sure that each one of these links in the chain is trained appropriately. Each link has a different thing that it needs to happen .

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Your Structure Dictates Your Function

So our body is a is a wonderful balance of tension and compression. it’s called biotensegerity for our body. Everything is linked together when you’re moving around and playing with your kids or doing your activities or working out you have to understand that all these different linked areas need to coordinate and work with each other.

If you want to better your body and make sure that you stay balanced holistically make sure that each one of these links with chain is trained appropriately. Each link has a different thing that needs to happen. So it’s the same thing in our body if we’re off in one of those points our function is
going to suffer because our structure dictates our function.

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Bio-Tensegerity And Your Body



How your body is balanced.

So our body is a wonderful balance of tension and compression – it’s called Bio tensegrity for your body.

The term tensegrity was actually coined by Buckminster
Fuller, who was an architect way back in the day. He coined and termed and
developed the philosophy, and he was a developer of thousands of structures.

A good one to think about is a geodesic dome in Montreal. That kind of shows you how tension and compression works.         

So when a tensegrity structure is working really well, it’s got some components that happening:

  • It’s omnidirectional.
  • Its base form is a triangle.
  • It has a maximum stability with just a minimum material.
  • The size is theoretically unlimited.
  • It’s non-linear.
  • It’s low energy consumption.
  • The strength and resilience of the whole, exceeds in some of its parts.
  • Then the applied load is distributed throughout the structure.
  • It’s a rigid structure, but with discontinuance compression I
  • It’s a flexible structure but with continuous tension.

The best way to think about this is the Golden Gate Bridge.
So it’s built with a tensegrity philosophy.

So imagine the bridge – we have all the different cables and bolts, and all these different struts – all this stuff is at work, it needs to do its job, so it’s flat and cars can drive across.

Now imagine it’s off, it’s too loose or something is too
strong or too weak, whatever the case may be, now it’s tilting and now the cars
can’t drive around.

So it’s the same thing in our body. If we are off in one of
those points, our function is going to suffer because our structure dictates
our function.            

The trick is knowing what you need to do and why. In general you of course want to make sure that the front of your body, the back of your body and the two sites are in balance. Balanced structurally and even with strength and flexibility.

Having one side “better” than the other will eventually lead to a lot of disfunction.

But don’t forget the diaphragms in your body as they act like roofs, ceilings and basements in your body. The four main diaphragms:

  • cervical
  • cervical-thoracic
  • thoracic
  • pelvic diaphragms

are all made of soft tissue and bone, but more importantly are connected to the different sides of your body to help them stay balanced.

If they are off then even though your have balanced all your sides with proper stretches and strengthening exercises, you will be off balance.

I know this is a lot to take in, but I want you to get an idea of the complexity that the body works with and to read more about this so that you can get a better idea on how to really train your body.

I know it’s a lot to take in, so I want you to go to our website solcorefitness.com

Read more information about the different aspects you need to have a balanced body.

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The Holistic Body



Why you should think of your body as working together.

Your body is this amazing interconnected being. Everything is linked together. You need to be able to simultaneously move,
breathe, think, eliminate, have your your fluids flow properly. it’s a definition of holistic.

When you’re moving around and playing with your kids, or doing your
activities or working out you have to understand that all these different
linked areas need to coordinate and work with each other. To the degree that one of these areas is off means you’re in dysfunction. So you’re just disfunction could be a bad back. Your dysfunction could be headaches. Your dysfunction to be cancer. It depends on your genetic profile.

If you want to better your body and make sure that you stay balanced holistically you need to make sure that each one of these links in the chain is trained appropriately. Each link has a different thing that
needs to happen.

So if you curious about what that is please go to our website www.solcorefitness.com. Read the information we got there and feel free to reach and reach out to us for questions. Thanks a lot.

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