Fitness Cross-Country Skiing

This book is easy to follow and enables the reader to make up a fitness program of one's own. I liked it better than the TAO Method of cross country skiing because it was so hard to follow. Excellent program!

This book has the basics and more for someone beginning a training program for Cross Country Skiing. It also contains an endurance test, strength tests and stretches specific for Nordic skiing. The wide variety of levels/workout programs will fit anyones needs and desire, with some exercises and training sessions for each level. This book is skiing specific with some equipment selection and skiing technique infromation. There is also some handy tables and forms. *THINK SNOW*

Fitness Cross-Country Skiing by Steve Gaskill is a commendable book for anyone who wants to train seriously. It covers pretty much everything but stops short of integrating technique with fitness. Other books which I found useful in my training were Training for cross-country ski racing by Brian Sharkey and Tao of Skiing cd rom by xczone.

This book is definitely for the cross-country skier who is also a racer, or wants to begin racing. This is not the book for the occasional skier who only wants to slide and glide on the golf course. Steve Gaskill, the author, was coach of the US Ski Team for ten years. Since it was written by a coach, "Fitness,Cross-Country Skiing" is a very highly organized, step by step instructions for getting it top shape to compete in the demanding sport of Nordic racing - everything from 5K sprints up to 50K marathons. Everything a competitor needs to know is here, dry land training, on snow training, exercises in the hills, on the flats, roller blading, stretching, and rest days. There are heart rate charts, calories burned charts, and suggested levels of training for everyone from the out-of-shape weekend racer to the elite world class athlete. This is a wonderful resource of the competitor or one interested in total fitness.