Pre-ski-holiday fitness training is something often encouraged and increasingly advised not just so that we're all in shape to hit the slopes, but in this era of fast turnaround lifts with few natural breaks in the downhill ski day, so that we can actually keep going all day.
The Ski Club of Great Britain and the Warren Smith Ski Fitness team are giving anyone living in the South East of England who wants to the chance to increase their fitness by joining in the first ever official Ski Fitness session in Hyde Park, London which will take place on Saturday 12 November.
The fitness day is designed to help skiers to tune up for the winter season and even develop areas of their skiing technique... without setting foot on snow. Sessions will include an essential pre-ski warm up, ski physiology and biomechanics range tests, ski specific dry land training and an after ski cool down and stretch session.
"The four training areas help develop a range of movements essential for skiing which will increase performance and massively reduce the risk of injury, either on the slopes or during après-ski, They also introduce a dry land training system that covers many aspects of fitness, muscle development and technique which can be practised in the back yard." said a statement from the organisers.
The intention is that skiers will leave on the day with a better understanding of their ski specific fitness and with a good idea of what to work on before they go skiing.
The Ski Club of Great Britain Fitness Day will take place 11am-1pm in Hyde Park, Saturday 12 November. The meeting point is by the park gates near Hyde Park Corner tube station at 11am.
Tickets cost £15 for members and £20 for non-members and are available from skiclub.co.uk/tickets or by calling 0208 410 2000.
Non-members who wish to attend the Fitness Day can save £10 off Ski Club membership before booking and then save a subsequent £5 off their booking. Quote KEEPFIT11 at skiclub.co.uk/join.