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Save the knee! Drawing of the knee!
Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Save the Knee!

Easy Kneesy When us skiers hear the word joint, what do we think? No, not weed! The joints I most often hear about when it comes to skiing are the hip and knee joints. Both […]

A picture from the main lift looking uphill at Whitecap Mountain Resort
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Whitecap Mountain Resort

Whitecap Mountain Resort is located in Northern Wisconsin around Hurley. It is in the area where Big Powderhorn Mountain and the Big Snow Country resorts are located, so this area is a ski mecca for […]

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I skied for speed!
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I Skied for Speed!

The old movie Top Gun had Tom Cruise and his sidekick chanting I feel the need for speed. Of course, us skiers have the ski bum character from Hot Dog whose goal was also to go as fast possible. I have some of that in me. […]

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Like Skiing Like Photography

Somewhere and sometime in the distant past I recall reading a skier talking about how he thought the improvement in ski technology would make better skiers of many people. He confessed that he was wrong […]

Ski Conditioning
Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Preparing for Ski Season

So ski season is getting close and it is time to start preparing for ski season. How do you approach this? I prepare for ski season all year but as we enter into this time of the year my approach changes. […]

Losing the Weight -- Womand performing box jumps
Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Fit Skiing with the Help of Andrew Hooge!

Fit Skiing offers a large number of exercises a skier can incorporate into their training sessions to focus on their special needs as skiers. Off of the top of my head there are probably about 150 or so exercises offered and most come with video demonstrations of Coach Hooge talking about the exercise and what muscles the exercise trains. In addition there is written material about the exercise. […]

Bode Skis Gates, Do You?
Skiing

It’s Bode Miller Time

Of course, there is the whole thing about his flip attitude towards the Olympics and what comes out of his mouth when talking about that. I have some agreement with him on this point, after all these folks are skiing from October into April every year, most of his critics probably only pay attention to skiing once very four years. […]

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