Get ready for SKI FIT YOGA

Ski Fit Yoga: Build Strength, Balance and Confidence Before You Hit the Slopes

Most skiers have experienced it—a tumble on the slopes, tired legs at the end of the day or that familiar feeling of muscles you didn't realise you had!

While skiing is great fun, it places significant demands on your body. Strong legs, a stable core, good balance and flexibility can all help you feel more confident, move more efficiently and enjoy your time in the mountains.

The best time to prepare for skiing is before you arrive on the slopes.

At My Life Tonic, our Ski Fit Yoga programme combines strength, mobility and mindful movement to help prepare your body for the challenges of skiing and snowboarding.



Unlike high-impact training, yoga provides a low-impact way to build strength, improve flexibility and develop body awareness—helping you prepare for the season while supporting your overall wellbeing.

What Can You Expect From Ski Fit Yoga?

Our sessions combine traditional yoga movements with ski-specific strength and mobility exercises, focusing on the areas of the body that work hardest when you're skiing.

• Sun salutations. Other than hailing the sunny days south of the UK, doing sun saluations is a great way to warm up the body. It gets you breathing and bending in all directions, warming up arms, back and legs. Sun salutations are used in vinyasa flow classes to connect breath with movement (helping to clear the mind of clutter) and allow you to move into different poses with ease.

• Many variations of chair pose. Why? You use your thighs (quads) constantly. When you are descending down that mountain, you are leaning forward and “bending zee knees”. You need solid thighs.

• Back bends and bridges. Why? You probably feel your lower back aches at the end of the day, from skiing or just picking up the heavy skis. Back bends strengthen the lower back.

• Balancing poses. Why? When turning on skis, you shift your weight between legs. When balancing on one leg, you learn stability when balancing. You learn to engage those key muscles required to balance (core and glutes).



• We also focus on the core and abs, shoulders and other key parts of the body. Each week is slightly different yet will incorporate similar poses so you feel you are progressing each week.

Click here to some great poses for before or after skiing:
https://www.facebook.com/YogaTonicUK/videos/1372434319455566/

Every Monday night at 7pm, we run a 45 minute SkiFit class which cost £8 for an online drop in. Give it a try to make sure your body is ready to hit the slopes this winter!