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Can you guys tell me about excercises for a day-to-day program I can put together and do at home that will help with overall leg strengthening and stability? I'm looking for basic exercises that don't require weights or any other therapy aids. Thanks for your advice.
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Balance training and or body weight stuff. SKI and Skiing mag both do a series on exercies like this. Searh their archievs for some more articles.
http://www.skiingmag.com/skiing/fitn...21057,,00.html
Lunges, fwd, back to the side. Squats w/o weights. One legged squats. Toe raises. Plyometric jumps.Quote:
Originally Posted by dblatto
definitely what was said about lunges and squats. take a broomstick or a ski pole, hold it over your head and then do your squats to build more core stability. Ther's a company I think it is pro-med which sells a Dyna disk which you can inflate and stand on one leg and place cups or vitamin bottles on the floor in front of you and standing on one leg reach down and touch a bottle (arranged in a semi-circle) then come back up and keeep doing it until you have touched all of the bottles with one hand and then switch legs and repeat for the other side. Great for stability, balance and hamstrings. Can do it without the dyna disk, too. Single leg squats with one leg on a chair behind you and lower yourself until you kne of the outstretched leg touches the floor then come back up. Great for the glutes. Archives of skiing and Ski have photos of these exercises. Check out chekinstitute.com and coreperformance.com and Vern Gambetta's website for other ideas. A lot of this stuff can be pretty cool and you don't have to stand around in a gym.
you guys rock, thanks.