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Agility Training: Why it’s necessary
If you want to improve your skiing in the bumps, steeps, off-piste and short turns you have to incorporate agility into your off-season preparation. How does agility come into play? Agility improves your precision, balance, ability to change direction quickly and overall coordination. These skills are essential to skiing in variable terrain and short turns where balance, precision, and quick direction changes are challenged consistently. Agility training improves body control. The neuro-muscular signaling and response time is improved, reduces injury by developing precision movements and develops stronger kinesthetic awareness. NASTC incorporates a dynamic stretching and warm-up component in its training camps, which includes a series of agility exercises. An agility ladder is a great tool to have and very user friendly. Most people work on their strength and endurance, which are obvious components to having a strong fitness platform. The other components which are n! ecessary not only for performance but for injury prevention are agility, core activation, flexibility and mobility.
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