Snowboard Balance Agility Strength WORKOUT 2 (GoPro Canada)

[@FitnessSheriff]

3 sets of full circuit. Reps can be; 10-10-10 (easy), 12-12-12, 10-12-15, or 15-15-15 (harder). The towel and sandbag push were 3 laps, 2 laps, 1lap.

[@Rakkhun369]

some extra strength and flexibility definitely doesn't hurt. Might help reduce risk of injury?

[@FitnessSheriff]

Between exercises, 15sec - not long at all. Between circuits - 2min walk around to recover.

[@johnpark7846]

Looks like a great workout, how much rest time in between sets and in between exercises and in between circuits?

[@StephenWilsonDA]

Is this a three set circuit or three sets of each movement?

[@taylo429]

sweet

[@1Flyingfist]

I'm sure this works and everything. I even do some of these exercises myself. Yeah that guy is henched out... But do you think those Japanese kids (in Sochi) did all of this, or did they just practice riding ;-) just curious. There is no need for such big muscles. Shaun White is skinny and he is one of the best. I have yet to see a beast elite snowboarder... Maybe Travis Rice is ripped out under his clothes, but I doubt it. I agree with the explosive training, though. But the video is gonna send out a message that you need muscles like that to be good.

[@nbkz8]

if you are not that good, it helps :)

[@FitnessSheriff]

+1Flyingfist You'd be very surprised to see how hard all of the top snowboarders train in the gym. No one in high end sport gets away with pure talent anymore - if you do, you shine for a year or two and then blow your body out. Those Japanese kids have probably been in some type of sport training since they could walk. Shaun White has a professional trainer and exercises 5x/week (or at least did in his peak) . Japan and China have some of the highest caliber training mindsets/pressure on athletes of all nations. I once heard the Japanese coach screaming (in english) at the guys saying "if you can't beat them you better make damn sure you go bigger than all of them!" - thus literally, why all Japanese riders drop twice as far and go twice as big in pipe! Exercising isn't always about getting big - big confusion with young kids. Volume training builds size, heavy strength training builds tensile strength and strong neuromuscular efficiency and explosive training creates responsiveness out of a muscle / quick reaction time.

[@1Flyingfist]

+FlippedSociety Thanks for the reply, but it's been so long that I can't remember my state of mind when I posted my initial comment. I think that I was trying to say that the exercises in this video don't seem snowboard specific. I did/have done these kind of exercises (through martial arts) and they don't translate into better snowboarding performance, but they do improve your general fitness, which is always a good thing. If you search Team GB snowboard-cross training, there is a video where they have a personal trainer doing exercises that are more applicable. Those exercises messed me up within minutes :-D but they look easy. As for China, yeah I'm aware of their academies for certain kids, my brother lives there. They are only given very basic education, but are put on a hardcore punishing training regime. I wasn't aware that Japan did the same, though.