Build strength.
Boost endurance.
Shred with confidence.
Our ski-specific dryland training programs are designed to prepare your body for the mountain. Build balance, mobility, power, and injury resilience with expert coaching — all before the first snowfall.
Skiing is demanding. Be ready for it.
Skiing is demanding — not just on your legs, but your entire body. At Performance EDU, our Ski Dryland Training Program is designed to build the strength, stability, and endurance needed to perform your best and stay injury-free all season long.
Whether you're a recreational skier, competitive athlete, or weekend warrior, our program prepares your body to handle the rigors of the mountain — before your skis ever touch snow.
Five focuses. One goal.
More days on snow. Fewer days off it. Every element of our program ladders up to that outcome.
Ski-Specific Strength
Develop leg power, core strength, and joint stability to handle variable terrain and reduce fatigue deep into a ski day.
Mobility & Balance
Improve range of motion, proprioception, and body control to prevent falls and sharpen edge control in variable snow.
Conditioning & Endurance
Build aerobic and anaerobic capacity for better stamina — from the first run of the morning to the last chair of the day.
Injury Prevention
Focused work on knee stability, hip control, and muscular imbalances to reduce the risk of ACL tears and overuse injuries.
Progressive Programming
Sessions evolve weekly to match your fitness level, ski goals, and on-snow timeline — peaking you for opening day.
Every skier starts with an assessment.
Before we write a single session, every skier completes a Functional Movement Screen (FMS) — a science-based assessment that evaluates key movement patterns related to mobility, stability, and asymmetries.
This lets us do four things:
- Identify movement inefficiencies that increase your injury risk on snow
- Personalize your dryland program around your body's specific needs
- Build corrective exercises directly into your training sessions
- Track measurable improvement over time, from first screen to season start
Built for skiers who take the mountain seriously.
Recreational & Weekend Skiers
Youth and adult skiers who want to make every ski day count and protect themselves from injury.
Competitive Athletes
Alpine, freestyle, and backcountry athletes training for a full competitive season.
Return-to-Snow
Skiers coming back from injury or surgery who need a structured path back to the mountain.
Sierra Serious
Anyone who lives for Tahoe terrain and wants to ski it with strength, control, and confidence.
Every session ends with TableEDU — coach-led stretching and mobility work on the table, targeted to what your evaluation found. See how it works →
Opening day is coming.
Be ready for it.
Book your assessment and we'll build you a dryland plan that has you ready to drop in the second the lifts start spinning.
Preseason Ski Conditioning
Built for the Reno-Tahoe season
Dryland training for skiers and snowboarders riding the Tahoe resorts. The demands of a Mt. Rose bump run are not the demands of a Palisades Tahoe steep or a Northstar groomer lap, and preseason ski conditioning should account for the mountain you actually ride and the shape you are actually in.
- Mt. Rose
- Palisades Tahoe
- Northstar
- Heavenly
- Diamond Peak
- Kirkwood
- Sugar Bowl
- Boreal
Eccentric quad strength
Skiing is an eccentric sport. Your quads spend the day absorbing load, not producing it. We train eccentric strength and control specifically so your legs are still under you on the last run of the day.
ACL injury prevention
Most ski knee injuries happen in positions of poor control, not poor strength. We build hip and trunk stability, landing mechanics, and the deceleration capacity that keeps a knee out of the positions that tear an ACL.
Altitude and work capacity
Conditioning built for repeated high-intensity efforts with short lift-ride recoveries, at Tahoe elevation. Endurance that holds up over a full day, not just a warm-up lap.
Snowboarders too
Rotational power, ankle and hip mobility, and the asymmetry work a boarder needs. Same dryland framework, different demands from a two-planker.
Coached by a former U.S. Disabled Ski Team strength coach
Performance EDU founder Marc Digesti is an exercise physiologist and the former head strength and conditioning coach for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, trained through EXOS/Athletes Performance. The dryland programming here comes out of preparing athletes for World Cup and Paralympic ski seasons, scaled for the person who just wants a strong, pain-free season at Tahoe.