Injury Perspective: Kate Elkind Spring semester of my junior year of college, I was accepted into the Teton Village Sports “study abroad program” where I took classes in drinking cheap beer, spinning DINs, and skiing powder. Like any good study abroad program, things got a little out of hand and I ended up blowing my…
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Young, Wild and Strong By: Ambassador Daniel Tisi I had to take a break from the last ski season because an ongoing knee problem. I had developed something called Osteochondritis Dissecans. In english, I had a weak layer of cartilage in my knee. After years of hard use, the cartilage cracked causing it to tear…
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Can you keep up with our Ambassadors? As some you have recently seen on our social media, our ambassadors had an epic weekend of competing. Over the past weekend our ambassadors Veronica Paulson, Kate Elkind, and Elsa Smith competed in the International Freeskiing & Snowboarding Association (IFSA) Colligate Big Mountain Competition at Grand Targee.…
DetailsWhy We Ski December 6, 2016. It’s 6:30 am and my alarm goes off at full volume about 10 inches from my ear. Now, to be clear, I’m one of those people with the preset alarms on their phone- “7:40 Time for the Gym!” “8:30 Good Morning!” “10:00 Ok, I get that…
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Hello Wright Trainees, The Workout of the Week is a hybrid of strength, work capacity, and stamina. The warm up involves all the major muscles that will used through out the workout. By the end of the warm up you should be breathing fairly hard and feel a bit more mobile. If that is…
DetailsRemote Training Though I spent the last few years in Jackson, I have mostly worked seasonally since graduating college in 2010. In the summer I was raft guiding on the Middle Fork and Main Salmon Rivers in central Idaho, and in the winter I was in Jackson, skiing. For the first few seasons…
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Strength Training and Snowboarding Working as a professional splitboard guide and snowboard instructor has wreaked havoc on my body. As guides, we often refer to the constant ache in the lumbar region as “Guide Back”. Unfortunately, I have witnessed a number of my mentors and fellow guides suffer the effects lower back injuries.…
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The physiology of skiing and alpine For those of you that attended the 8-week ski/snowboard fit progression, the time has come where we put all the hard work on the hill. I want to explain to you all how and why the Quadzillas, Leg Blasters, and Step-Ups (for the ski-moers) will make you ski…
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7 Moves to Get you Fit For Day 1 On The Slopes! Outside Magazine recently came to Wright Training to see what all of the excitment was about for ski fitness. Every October Wright Training prepares their athletes for ski season with an 8 week progressive ski fit specific program. This program entials a…
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The Perks of Training with a Sandbag: Sandbag Training..can be a very sore subject, but here is some insight on the benefits of training with a sandbag: 1. Body position is extremely important with sandbag training. SB training can be exhausting, but our number 1 priority needs to be what I like to refer to…
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