Ski legs are built in October.

What a plan looks like

Training

A dryland block built backward from your first trip: eccentric quad endurance, lateral strength and landing mechanics, and ankle-and-hip mobility that works inside a ski boot.

Nutrition

Trip fueling that survives lodge food and long lift lines, and day-to-day eating that holds the fall block's work through a desk-job week.

Supplement suggestions

Evidence-first and short: creatine for repeated-effort legs, vitamin D through the dark months if your levels warrant it, reasoning included, nothing sold.

Skiing is one of the few sports where the muscle works hardest while lengthening. That's why squats alone don't prevent quad burn, and why our blocks bias eccentric tempo work from the first week.