WATCH: Mikaela Shiffrin’s Team Cheers Her On as She Trains During Off-Season

It is an established fact that routine exercising can keep one healthy and fit. Therefore, most athletes keep their regimen going throughout the year. But some sports are seasonal, especially alpine skinning and snowboarding. The Alpine skier, Mikaela Shiffrin, understands that well.

Athletes who partake in these sports have difficulty finding a suitable spot to train. As such, they miss out on their training during their off-season. However, the official Instagram page of the US Ski Team posted a video that showed Shiffrin doing otherwise.

Mikaela Shiffrin cheered by teammates during her physical test

In the video, the three-time Olympic medalist is performing a horizontal leg press from what appears to be a digital version of the machine. The device is attached to a monitor on top of it. Fans of the sport are speculating that the screen displays specific readings and data about the athlete.

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The video has garnered more than 4k likes within 24 hours from posting. Moreover, it features the athlete’s coaches and teammates cheering her on.

Seeing her teammates cheering the athlete, one Instagram user asks if Mikaela Shiffrin has seven coaches. However, the page responded swiftly to this question. It stated that two of them were her coaches, Per Lundstam and Bob Poehling, while the other members present at the facility were her teammates.

The page also revealed that the skier was doing physical testing when they recorded the video. Moreover, it also divulged the facility’s location, which the page states to be the USANA Center of Excellence in the comment section.

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Furthermore, the official account handle added, “This is one of several testing elements all of the alpine athletes do…they know how hard it is, so every bit of encouragement helps.”

When one Instagram user inquires about the machine Shiffrin was using, the page tagged both her coaches to let them handle its technical aspects.

The comment read, “We’ll let the pros weigh in.”

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World-class athletes must maintain their peak physical form at all times. And seeing even snippets of Shiffrin’s regimen makes one wonder about the skills required to operate at that level. Athletes who have reached this level must also stay at the top of their game to perform accordingly.