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4 Pro Skier Workouts To Prep for Ski Season

Originally posted on Powder | By Izzy Lidsky | Last updated Oct 12, 2025 6:34 AM ET

There are all kinds of ways to get ready for ski season, but one of the most important is getting in shape.

Lots of mountain town gyms have ski conditioning classes if you enjoy group workout settings. If you'd rather lift solo, lots of skiers will post their workouts throughout the off season. While you might not be squatting quite as much weight as Lindsay Vonn or Mikaela Shiffrin, these videos are a great place to get ideas for ski conditioning workouts.

Here's a few great workouts we've seen while doom scrolling. Break out the epsom salts and Theragun, you might be feeling one or two of these tomorrow.

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1. Ana Eyssimont

Resident Queen of Corbet's Couloir has been hard at work in the off season staying strong and prepping for more massive hits into Corbet's. Eyssimont has posted a handful of great pre-ski season workouts to her Instagram page that are definitely worth saving as you're planning your own days in the gym.

She has videos demonstrating exercises like switch split lunge jumps, nordic hamstring curls, burpees, box jumps, hip flexor mobility exercises, kettle bell swings, as well as explanations of when to use each exercise and how it'll benefit skiing. Here's her video of Copenhagen planks, which help with hip adductor strength and core stability amongst other things and can be key for preventing ski injuries.

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2. Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan, more like GYM Ryan (wow, sorry about that awful pun). If you know Jim, you know he spends a ton of time in the gym and cross-training. To ski some of the lines he's skied and as fast as he does, you have to be pretty darn strong, so it's no shocker his workouts are dialed. Here are three exercises designed to help train to failure so your body learns to compensate when it's tired. The exercises include hexbar deadlifts, single leg Romanian deadlifts, and box jumps, and like Jim says, "as long as you’re trying hard, you’re getting stronger."

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3. Marcus Goguen

Freeride World Tour Champion Marcus Goguen knows a thing or two about flat landings and how to make them hurt less, so he started his own fitness training app called Adrenaline Performance. If you didn't get one of the limited spots in Goguen's program, he's still posted a few workouts to his Instagram page. The one above features trap bar jumps, trap bar deadlifts, squats, Pendlay rows, and landmine presses. Goguen's workouts are designed to not just make you stronger, but give you more power and prevent injury on impact which are both things most skiers could stand a bit more of.

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4. Hannah Melinn

Utah Skier Hannah Melinn posts tons of skier workouts alongside her super aesthetic ski storage wall. Her latest one is a leg day workout for skiers with good mobility exercises, strength training, and things to increase power. The workout is a series starting with band walks and windmills, before moving to glute bridges and leg lifts. Melinn adds weights with reverse lunges and Romanian deadlifts before moving to weighted step ups and a few step-up and box jump variations. Save this one when you need a good leg workout and take a look at her page for lots more.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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