For skiing & snowboarding
For skiing & snowboarding, lateral bound rates well ahead on our research criteria: more carry-over to skiing & snowboarding, easier to learn and fit in.
Both are good choices that build different things for skiing & snowboarding, so a plan can use both.
The research score comes from these, scored by hand from the studies. Lifter scores appear once an exercise has 10 ratings. How scores work
Lateral Bound. Edge-to-edge power and control.
For skiing & snowboarding, lateral bound rates well ahead on our research criteria: more carry-over to skiing & snowboarding, easier to learn and fit in. Both are good choices that build different things for skiing & snowboarding, so a plan can use both.
About the same: both are easy to learn.
Lateral bound needs no equipment, so you can do it anywhere. Leg press needs a machine, so for most people it’s a gym exercise.
About the same: both rate Good for injury protection in our research rubric.