Running coaches often have their athletes focus on frontside leg mechanics to help them increase their running tempo. For example, runners might focus on knee drive in the same way, cross country ski instructors can emphasize the frontside poling tactics outlined below to help students increase their poling tempo. Tis also allows skiers to continuously engage the core muscles to initiate poling, which provides a powerful poling movement. When a skier’s arms move behind the center of mass, there is a loss of power due to the decrease in the activation of the large core muscles, which negatively impacts continuous forward momentum.
START WITH HANDS HIGH AND IN FRONT OF THE FACE Te foundation of poling starts from a position with the hands high in front of the face, about shoulder-width apart. Emphasize that every poling movement begins with this starting position. As the terrain of the ski trail requires the skier to increase the tempo
of their poling, like ascending a steep hill, the skier must decrease backside mechanics of poling to allow enough time to swing the arms forward and bring the hands back to the starting position. Likewise, as the tempo of poling slows down, say on a gradual downhill, there is more time for the arms to push all the way past the body and still have time to recover back to the starting position. By always returning to the poling
starting position and decreasing backside mechanics, skiers can increase the tempo of their poling without losing the ability to use the core muscles to initiate poling. Tis increased tempo and ability to preserve the use of the core allows the skier to maintain continuous forward movement on terrain that sometimes makes this a challenge.
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