 Hi I'm Pam Thorburn and I'm a ski cross athlete and here are five easy bodyweight exercises to help improve your skiing. First up we have wall sits. Wall sits you sit 90 degrees against the wall and hold it for a period of time. If you want to make this exercise harder you can add a little bit of weight with a light kettlebell or whatever you have and hold it for longer. Wall sits are going to help you improve your strength endurance. You're going to be able to stay on the mountain for longer, ski from first lift to last. Okay next up we have hip extension. Hip extension is working the hamstrings and the butt and it works everything in the posterior chain to help you stay in that dynamic position, low position to make you go faster on the hill. You can make this exercise harder by lifting one leg up and holding and squeezing tight at the top for one or two seconds. Okay next up we have lunges. Lunges are really good for your overall leg strength that works a little bit of everything so it helps with the power, the stability and overall leg endurance for while you're skiing and to make it a little bit harder you can do walking lunges, add a little bit of weight or you can even do jumping lunges. Up next we have squat jumps. Squat jumps are amazing because they help with explosive power. It's going to help you turn quicker, more efficient, nice snappy turns and they're going to be really strong nice angles. So for squat jumps you can make them harder by adding a little bit of weight and holding at the bottom for one or two seconds extra and really exploding as high as you can. Okay lastly we have the plank. The plank is really good for core stability to keep everything tight so that you're in a really nice dynamic position and otherwise you're flapping about and everything is loose. You keep everything tight and you're going to go faster down the hill. So doing a few of these exercises before you go on your ski trip will really help not only help your ski technique and endurance and the fun that you have on your skis but it will also help protect your body from injuries and from crashes and you're going to be more stable and you're going to have more fun.