Seven Workouts to Prep You Up for the Ski Season in the Philippines

A thirty-minute drive from Amaia Scapes Laguna and you will reach Nuvali Evoliving’s Republic Wakepark. This world-class facility is one of the people’s wakeboarding destination of today, especially during the summer season here in the Philippines. Why would it not, right? Nuvali’s Evoliving Republic Park brings people the ultimate water skiing and wakeboarding experience!

If you are planning to try their adventures and facilities, you must keep your body ready! Water skiing is not easy, especially to those who do not have the fit body to do it. So, before the Ski Season arrives, which is summer, make sure your body is ready! Because if you are not going to prep those muscles up, you will be saying hello to muscle pains, wimping out of the waters, and of course, countless water skiing fails.

Below are seven workouts to prep you up for your skiing adventure before summer comes:

1. The Romanian Deadlift

This exercise will fire up your hamstrings and glute. This is important because working on your hamstrings will stabilize your knee joints. With that, it will help a lot in preventing injuries.

1. Use an 80lb dumbbell for this exercise. You may increase the weight from time to time as long as you get comfortable with it.

2. Stand straight bringing the barbell.

3. Then, with the barbell on your hand, lean forward. Keep your back straight while bending your knees a little.

4. By bringing your hips forward, return to a standing position.

2. Single-Leg Eccentric Leg Press

This exercise helps in strength balancing. This very appropriate for water skiing because weight or strength shifting is the basic foundation for this sport. Thus, this exercise will help you get used to shifting your strength to a single leg.

1. Load the pressed leg with sixty or seventy percent of what your both legs can lift.

2. Lower the pressed leg for six seconds.

3. Once your pressed leg will reach the bottom, push your body up with your two feet.

3. Medicine Ball Pump Squat

This exercise is very common, but it is very apt for water skiing because it builds muscular endurance in your lower back, quads, and glutes.

1. Hug a 15-50 lbs medicine ball to your chest.

2. Lower your position to a squat.

3. Do short pump squats by moving up and down about an inch or so with going back to the stand-up position.

4. Squat Jump

This exercise develops the response speed of your quads and glutes to respond. With that, it will you to ski faster than the regular speed.

1. Spread your feet shoulder-width apart.

2. Squat down and make sure your thighs are parallel to the floor.

3. Jump high in the air.

4. Make sure to land softly.

5. Backward Treadmill Walk

This fifth exercise one is the same with the other exercises above. This exercise builds muscle endurance in the glutes and the quads.

6. Lateral Hops with Tuck Hold

This exercise combines both dynamic and isometric movements is designed to improve your stamina so that you can survive long and extensive physical work. Water skiing is an extensive physical activity that would test your stamina. Thus, this exercise would be very helpful.

7. Low Back Complex

Water skiing involves a lot of movements that would make your lower back work so hard during the activity. This exercise will help combat lower back pain by making your lower back used to certain movements.

And those are the seven workouts you can do at home or at the gym to prep you up for your next water skiing adventure. It is better to do it as early as you can so that you can water ski whenever you want without suffering body aches after doing the activity. Start exercising now!

Dominique Santos is a freelance blogger and he blogs for Optimind Technology Solutions. He loves to write an article about real estate, home decor, travel, lifestyle and digital marketing.