In the spirit of the 2010 Winter Olympics, today’s celebrity workout review is the one and only, Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey is USA’s winter version of Michael Phelps. She’s a candidate for 5 Olympic Golds in downhill, super combined, super-G, giant slalom, and slalom. Vonn had several injuries and set backs but has been a media firestorm with her tremendous strength and power. Lindsey now skis on men’s skis because she’s too powerful for the women’s skis and the mens are wider, which allow her to go faster. How cool is that?

In many of my posts I talk about the lean, athletic look that most women are striving for. Lindsey Vonn is another perfect example of how this look is developed. Obviously she is an extreme case because her life is based around training…but, you get the point…

Lindsey’s workout and training plan is very intense but I wanted to touch on a few points that are important to those of us not striving for Olympic Gold.

1. Lindsey’s strength workouts include a focus on core strength but she’s not doing tons and tons of sit ups. She’s completing exercises using medicine balls, physio balls, and tons of powerful throws to activate her entire core. These are athletic based movements but they certainly help you torch calories and are much more fun than lying on the ground doing hundreds of bicycle crunches.

2. Lindsey performs a lot of ground based strength movements to develop power and explosiveness. Movements like multi-directional lunges, squats and jumps will train the lower body extremely well and will boost your metabolism much better than traditional machines and leg presses.

3. Agility and movement training are important for Lindsey’s workouts as well. Again, most of us are not flying down the hill at 90mph but we sure need to be able to move well. Exercises like the agility ladder, mountain climbers, multi-directional lunges or stair climbs are all great movements that will crank up your heart rate and are also kind of fun.

4. Lindsey bikes 2-3 hours at a time for optimal endurance. For us normal folk who are looking for a metabolic boost and a calorie torching workout, interval training is the best way to achieve this. Bike or run hard for 1 minute, recover for 1 minute and repeat for 8-10 circuits.

5. Lindsey’s nutrition plan was pretty simple- avoiding large amounts of sugar, eating a complex carbohydrate breakfast to fuel up for the day, drinking plenty of water, fueling up with protein after a workout, and even indulging once or twice per week.

Lindsey Vonn’s workouts are grueling and intense but the focus of this post is to show you that you need to move your body as a whole, perform large movements, create fun environments for your training, and work hard.

Enjoy the Olympics!

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