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Boots aren’t the only footwear made for skiers and boarders.

By strengthening the core muscles, MBTs improve the stability of the trunk and reduce the load on joints, helping to prevent many common skiing injuries.

MBT's unique sole construction promotes continuous balance adjustment and enhances inter-muscular coordination, which helps the skier to fine-tune turns and improve their fine motor skills.

Even after an injury-free day on the slopes, there’s still a toll on the body. Walking in MBTs forces a more upright pattern that can help stretch hip flexor muscles and reduce the chance they will become shortened. This makes MBTs perfect for skiers and boarders, as their natural positions often lead to shortened hip flexors. MBTs also enable an efficient stretching of the calf muscles thanks to the soft Masai Sensor which gives you a higher range of motion while stretching.

And one added benefit occurs when you put a pair on as soon as you come off the mountain. It’s the beginning of muscle recovery, and with the comfortable feeling while walking and standing your body becomes perfectly relaxed. Wearing MBTs during your “cool down” period can also help with faster elimination of metabolic by-products, which can speed up muscle recovery. In other words, even during après-ski you can accelerate your regeneration with MBT.

 

Canadian Alpine Ski Team

Most athletes in alpine ski racing tend to get tight muscles in their legs and around their pelvic girdle. This can lead to back pain. With the MBT shoe, we have a powerful tool to teach the athletes how to extend their hips again.
Just by walking or jogging with MBT shoes, some athletes find their back pain dramatically reduced because the shoes help them regain their natural movement patterns.

Kurt Kothbauer, Mag. phil., head dryland coach of the Canadian national ski team

Exercises

  • Bridge with Ball
    The bridge with ball exercise increases core stability. These large muscles, such as abs and glutes, are constantly active in a skier’s low, controlled stance. Squeeze ball between knees and pull bellybut­ton in toward spine. Stabilize the body over the balancing area. Lift pelvis until upper body and legs are in a straight line. Hold this position. Note: Exercise is also applicable without ball.
  • ABC Balancing
    Balancing exercises, like writing the ABCs in the air, decrease your risk of knee injury by strengthening the small muscles that keep your knees in proper alignment. Hold an upright posture in one-leg stance. Press into balancing area of MBT on standing leg. With other leg lifted in front of the body as high as possible, write ABCs into the air.
  • Single Leg Bridge
    The one-leg bridge exercise increases core stability. These large muscles, such as abs and glutes, are constantly active in a skier’s low, controlled stance. Start in a bridge position. Straighten one leg so the bridge is held on other leg. On the standing leg, press into balancing area of MBT and hold this position. Roll forward to forefoot, and then back to the Masai Sensor.
  • Side Plank
    The side plank exercise increases core stability. These large muscles, such as abs and glutes, are constantly active in a skier’s low, controlled stance. Lying on your side, place foot of the upper leg behind your body on balancing area of MBT. Lift pelvis and straighten other leg so it is parallel to the floor. Rest upper body on forearm at 90 degrees. Roll from balancing area forward to forefoot and back to the Masai Sensor.
  • Slow Running
    Slow running in MBTs prevents injury by reducing stress on joints, can help stretch the hip flexor muscle and speeds recovery by increasing blood flow. With upright posture, take shorter strides than you normally would. Roll from the Masai Sensor through the balancing area, to the forefoot. Variation: slow running with “exaggerated” pull-back motion can increase stretching of the hip flexor muscle.
  • Airplane
    Balancing exercises like this “airplane” pose decrease your risk of knee injury by strengthening the small muscles that keep your knees in proper alignment. Start by standing on both feet and lean forward into airplane position. Stabilize body over balancing area of MBT. Hold this position, and then repeat on opposite side.