Exercise – Page 2

4 Exercises to Improve Your Balance: The Foundation of Great Skiing!

Great skiing is characterized by the skiers ability to have a positive, selective effect on any of the skills (balancing, edging, rotary and pressure control movements) at anytime. The foundation of great skiing are balancing movements. Balancing movements are present in all sports and especially in skiing…when a person is standing, strapped onto “two boards” […]

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Woodchopping & Top 5 Wood Round Strength Exercises for Skiers

Exercise, Skiing, Uncategorized

Back to the mountains I have gone! This is my second of three week long vacations at our family cabin with my mother and boys. The cabin is “my HAPPY place!” However, it does pose a challenge for maintaining my strength training routine. YES – I do have plenty of portable fitness equipment that I

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One MOVE, ALL muscles! Vacation friendly workout!

Exercise, Skiing

VACATION, vacation, vacation! I’m hearing everyone talking about vacations and I’m headed out the door for 9 days at the family cabin, again! Along with everyone sharing their vacation plans people are also mentioning how they won’t have time to fit in a workout. I’ve been there. I mean isn’t vacation….vacation – time to sit

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Ouch! A Pain In My Side!

Exercise, Nutrition, Running, stretching

Anyone who runs, swims, bicycles or plays a running sport has experienced a side ache, a SHARP, intense pain in your lower abdominal area. This week I had two clients that inquired about side aches which peaked my interest in what a side ache is, why we get them, and how we prevent and/or get

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Sizzling Summer Temperatures – Stay Hydrated!

Exercise, News, Nutrition, Skiing, Uncategorized

The hottest months of the year are upon us – it was near 100 degrees at 2,000ft in the North Central Cascades a few days ago! As this hot weather hits us nothing is more important than staying hydrated – especially if you will be outside and active – on the mountain, hiking, biking or

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Tight “Buns” May Limit Your Skiing!

Exercise, Skiing, stretching

Good skiing relies on the ability of the skier to rotate their femurs (big leg bones) in the hip sockets, while the upper body (pelvis, core & shoulders) remain relatively quiet. It is also important that each leg can rotate toward the middle line of the body and away from the body equally. If one

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One Small Overlooked Muscle that Will Improve Your Skiing!

Exercise

Quads are on fire, back is fatigued, and shins are sore…ever felt this way after your first day on the snow? A ski stance similar to one the pictured to below, right side of the gentleman in the background – he has little ankle flex and hips behind his feet – firing up those quads!

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Traditions Can Improve Your Family Health!

Exercise, News, Uncategorized

Encourage a Fit & Active Family with “Active” Family Traditions! Life these days is crazy, fast paced, chasing boys, making meals, training clients, stuck behind a computer, on my cell phone. Go, go, go! Too busy to do the things I love to do…..with the ones I love. Do you experience these same feelings? Traditions

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Train Like a Skier for a Lean Physique

Exercise, News

8 Key Components of a PEAK Ski Conditioning Program Ok – as I sat down to write this I began to think…………..”maybe people do not want to train or focus on skiing all year long – like ME! Gosh people – what are you thinking!? LOL!” However, I do know that MOST people want to

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Top 5 Strength Training Exercises for Skiers

Exercise

Body Weight Exercises that will Enhance Your Ski Performance on the Mountain First day on the snow ever feel like this? Burning quads after your first run, fatigued back, huffing and puffing after one bump run, wobbly legs after only a half day of skiing? The first few days on snow can be physically challenging

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