Winter Workout: Strengthening Moves for Skiing, Snowboarding, and Ice Skating

Cross-Country

Targets shoulders, arms, butt, quads, inner thighs, outer thighs, and calves

• Stand with feet together, holding a dumbbell in each hand near shoulders, palms facing forward.
• Side lunge with right leg to right, bending knee 90 degrees and keeping left leg straight.
• Extend arms overhead as you step back to center.
• Lunge forward with right leg, bending both knees 90 degrees, lowering weights to shoulders.
• Return to standing in center, pressing weights overhead; lunge backward with right leg, bending both knees and lowering weights to shoulders.
• Return to center, lifting weights overhead.
• Do side-, front-, and back-lunge combo 8 times; switch legs and repeat. Do 2 sets.