Andrew Hooge, CSCS
When I work with a new athlete, I ask them a battery of questions ranging from if they have a family history of heart disease to what their current workout routine looks like. Yesterday I began working with a skier whose workout was fairly thorough but lacked virtually no exercises for the posterior […]

By Paul Hooge
I don’t mind short road trips; perhaps 500 miles each way is a sane distance. I don’t often fly because you cannot haul a bunch of old or antique skis on planes easily (packaged they may resemble some sort of missile). This September my trip began in crested Butte, Colorado (9250 ft […]

Are you Overtraining?
Do you feel exhausted even after a good nights’ sleep? Are your muscles more fatigued than normal after a day on the slopes? If so you might be overtraining.
According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), overtraining can be described as “excessive frequency, volume, or intensity of training, […]