Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn’s Workout

Don’t bother looking for the Lindsey Vonn workout video that was posted on YouTube: it’s been removed, although there are plenty of other videos of Vonn here. In print media, the Wall Street Journal gives us some hints of the daily routines of “the most decorated female skier in the U.S.” The paper reports that Vonn trains six to eight hours a day, six days a week. On most days, the WSJ reports, she gets in three
hours of cardio, usually on a bike. In Austria her trainers have her do
Tour de France–style hill rides up the Alps. Her strength workouts are
heavily focused on building her core. Perhaps the most challenging
requires her to balance on a tightrope in a squat position while
throwing a medicine ball at different angles against a wall.

Read more in the Wall Street Journal.