As Halloween approaches and first dustings of snow start appearing in the mountains, you average skier might be doing some casual lunges and watching TV while standing on a balance board to wake up their legs ahead of the ski season but its much different story for those who call themselves professional ski racers. Case in point, Italian World Cup alpine racer Sofia Goggia who has been going full blast with high intensity training all summer long.
“The life of summer skiers is like this; endless months of preparation in which you work hard and sweat a lot, yes.. the nice thing is that you do it dreaming of snow.” -Sofia Goggia
Amazing to see all the hard work that goes into being one the most powerful speed skiers on the planet but we don’t recommend trying to recreate her regimen at your local gym as you really have to train hard just to train this hard. We do hope Sofia’s vigorous approach will inspire you level up your routine as we head into winter:
