Mobility Duo

Some of us are already on hill while others are still doing snow dances. Regardless, it’s always wise to train off mountain whether in-season or off-season.

Today we present some of our favorite exercises for the 2024/25 season, each with their own flavor.

These each have their own benefits and we HIGHLY recommend you start incorporating them into routine as we promise they will pay dividends.

Top 5⬇️

Sway Drill: Highly underutilized but so relevant for snowboarding. Often used in track and field based sports, the sway drill is all about balance. Knowing where your center of mass is over your base of support so you react quickly to avoid injury, perform at your highest, or make those ever important tweaks. We rarely move in a lateral direction which is primarily what snowboarding is.

Snowboard Squats: We are proud of these because we invented them. Moving pressure through the snowboard fundamentals in a squat position to our toe/ heel/ nose/ tail edge. It includes a deadly isometric squat for strength/ endurance and gets you familiar with these movement mechanics you perform all day not the snow. This one is easy to spice up and make more challenging in a variety of ways. 

Resisted Pallof rotations/ counter-rotations: Rotation is so vital in snowboarding whether you are pivoting over the center of your board, slashing a dynamic carve, rotating off a feature, or avoiding an injury. We require split second rotation/ counter rotational ability all day on the mountain which primality starts from our shoulders, core, and lower extremities. 

360 Bear Crawl: Our upper extremities require protection as they are easily the most vulnerable to injury as snowboarders. This is a fully body routine from our legs to our shoulders. Hover those knees and you will start to feel your quads/ glutes get involved.

Lateral Single Leg Plyos: There are a million ways to perform plyometrics. We jump on the mountain, why not jump off the mountain? The point of these is single leg stability, balance, power creation and stressing the tissues to handle this impact.

Comment “shred” for our 12 week snowboard strength training program 🏂🤙🏼

Go get em’

Weird! That’s what it was last time I checked! 🤷

We figured this trend is the perfect opportunity to share with you a little about what goes on behind the scenes currently.

Let me start by saying: we’re not going anywhere! We’re going to keep this dream alive as long as possible.

Each of these slides are very real topics of conversation for Mark and I. Any small business owner knows that there are seasons of good and seasons of difficult.

Adding a new member of the family is the best and hardest thing we’ve ever done (those of you who are parents know this).

With the addition of Dawson we’ve had to neglect other things such as our messages, content, and snowboarding. It’s easy to think “that’s okay! You had a baby” but the reality is our income is heavily wrapped up in these things which is stressful (baby’s are expensive).

Telling you this is by no means a pity party. We are extremely grateful to do what we do and that we are able to grow our family.

We’re sharing this with you to remind you that we too have stress, fear, and uncertainty. A number on a screen doesn’t change that.