Good day! My name is Jamie Atlas for Snowboardconditiong.wordpress.com and today, I'm going to talk about three major components that many elite snowboarders miss out on in their training. That is flexibility, strength training, and balance training.
When we’re thinking about flexibility, we need to make sure that we are stretching in a dynamic sense, that is for me to hold the stretch, thus it help me, because while I'm doing my flexibility in the snowboarding action, it is dynamic. I am reaching back, I am using my flexibility in many different direction, but it is rarely in the positions that I hold. In other words, if I come off the ramp or I'm going to do a spin, or I need to have flexibility for a grab or just for a very sharp turn. I need to make sure that I have flexibility, not only to touch my toes, but also to reach behind, if I'm out of control, also if I'm swaying, I need to make sure that flexibility is there. But when woosh, to get that flexibility, I need to make sure that I'm reaching in such a way that it's dynamic, that flexibility is happening, our body has flexibility that are coming back, trying this is very difficult.
Number two is strength. Now, if I was trying a bit – but other than squats, like this. But the reality is, if I was a snowboarder or as anyone who’s out in the mountain, doing anything with a snowboard, I can see that their actions are often involve rotation and not straight.
If I would grab a medicine ball, then all of sudden, I can really start to train that strength, so that next time, I'm coming out and do something where I'm going to need to approach right there, just float it through. I've trained, well I need to explore vertically with that rotation. So that way my body is running the strength that it needs to apply, not the strength that make you better at avoid building side movements.
We’re tying to train you to be a snowboarder, not a bodybuilder, so let's do snowboarding strength movements, not body building strength movements.
Number three it balance, try to stand in one leg in balance, and that doesn’t really help you to be good snowboarder. Snowboarders need balance in all sorts of positions. I need to have balance, so that I can work my body to be strong in all sorts of positions, depending on what I'm looking to do. I could say, you know what's the important aspect balance would be heel to toe balance. It might be can I balance in my all directions, while I'm out with my heels. Or maybe can I balance in all four directions, while I'm off my toes.
So three components, one is, flexibility make it dynamic and not static. Number two is strength, and rotating back to 0 strength. Number three is balance. Don’t make it static, again make it dynamic or make it multi-dimensional.
My name is Jamie Atlas thank you for watching Snowboardingconditiong.wordpress.com.
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