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Outside Magazine, October 2008

Master Plan: Snow-Sports Fitness
Are Your Ready for Ski Season?
You'd better be: You just paid $87 for your lift ticket. Follow our preseason fitness plan and make last year's halfhearted half-days a distant memory.

By Sam Moulton


Intro | Cardio | Strength | Core | Gear

Skiing the Hautes-Alpes, France
Skiing the Hautes-Alpes, France (Mike Truelove/Digital Vision/Getty)

The Simple Plan
A week at a ski resort is supposed to be a vacation, not a marathon. With this in mind, we asked Ann Hodel, former NCAA Division I nordic ski racer and owner of Bodywise Physical Therapy, in Boulder, Colorado, to devise a 12-week winter fitness strategy. All you have to do is augment your (hopefully) regular routine of biking or running with a few ski- and snowboard-specific exercises. The best part? If you already work out regularly, this plan should take only about three more hours per week.



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