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Eight years ago doctors advised Katie Steinberg to quit running. Her badly injured ankle couldn’t tolerate the stress that running put on it. Instead of letting it get in the way, Katie pushed on through the miles. The Bighorn 50k is a big win. Congratulations, Katie, for staying psyched on the trail! How many…
By: Jenny Wolfrom The village closes, the rain comes, and a large portion of Jackson’s fittest population flocks to the beaches of Mexico, Central America, and Thailand. This year my off-season adventure of choice was two weeks in Nicaragua. While I was excited to get away and relax, internally I was having a severe panic…
This week combines a mix of work capacity and strength. The goal with maintenance is to work all the muscles that are not being worked during our sports. The goal is to balance back out the body, by making certain muscles fire. This week we continue to strengthen and maintain core, hip and explosive strength.…
Sport Maintenance class written by Adam Dowell This class is designed as a 5/5/5/10 style work capacity effort. This means each new set of exercises is, or roughly is, 5 minutes in duration, plus a 10 minutes effort and core work at the end. These high intensity, short duration efforts are great for cardiorespiratory health,…
This week we continued once again to progress the leg blasters. Everyone is continuing to become stronger each week and their soreness is very minimal. We also worked on some corrective exercises to help balance the body back out. We did single leg deadlifts and single leg touch downs to focus more on the stabilizer…
This week we continued to progress the leg blasters and the duration of time with the skier hops and hold. We did 45 seconds of hopping and 45 seconds of hold with 30 seconds of recovery. This we did for 8 rounds, which was very challenging for everyone. We also worked on the squat cleans…
This week we progressed the leg blasters a little more moving from 6 mini leg blasters to adding 2 full leg blasters into the mix. We also did our first skier hops of the class where people wore their skis or snowboards and hopped back and forth on their skis/snowboards for 30 seconds and then…
Great news! Everyone was a little less sore this week, which is great!! We continued to progress with our leg blasters and quick anaerobic hits to the system. We learned squat cleans, which is one of the best athletic movements to mimic explosive power in skiing and snowboarding. This lift will be tracked for all athletes…
The first week of Ski Fitness has been a success! Good job to all of you first timers. I promise the soreness you feel will get better, making you stronger and more in shape for the beginning of the ski season! We started DAY 1 with leg blasters. This is a great eccentric and concentric…