Mike Foote teaches you how to choose and prepare your skins for your first, or 20th, ski mountaineering event.https://youtu.be/L3gmgrCylRk
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In the mountain environment women often feel they are the odd-ones out. Here coaches Carolyn Parker, Maya Seckinger, and Karen Bockel openly share their own drives to not only do everything the men can do, but to do it better. Years of competitive sport, coaching, mountain guiding have given this remarkable group of coaches some wonderful wisdom and insights which they share here. Well worth a watch or a listen for any Uphill Athlete, male or female.
The core training that ski mountaineers do should be as functional as possible. Your core is basic to many of your sport-specific movements, such as poling, uphilling, and turning. For example, the more force you can exert on your poles when double-poling across a flat section of a downhill, the faster you will go. Strength correlates nearly perfectly with speed in this example. Why Train Core Strength for Ski Mountaineering? Core is important in other ways as well, especially in turning the skis, in bringing the trailing ski forward when skinning, or bringing either ski around to execute a kick…
If you are like us, you want to be ready when the snow comes and you can get into the back country. Even if you’ve fallen off the endurance training wagon with all the rock climbing you’ve been doing, you’ve still got time to make some appreciable gains in the next 8 weeks.A couple of years ago we published an article called Preseason Ski Touring Training (you are encouraged to read it for background info) which outlined the training in general terms and even described some typical workouts. But it was not a detailed day by day plan like our…
One of the first things you need to do to begin training is determine your training zones. This handy calculator is the perfect place to start. But first, a very special thanks to Uphill Athlete, Simon, for creating this very cool heart rate calculator tool.Uphill Athlete Training ZonesMax Heart Rate (enter 0 if you don’t know)Anaerobic Threshold (AnT)Aerobic Threshold (AeT)Calculate training zonesTop Relevant LinksOur Mountaineering Training PageAerobic DeficiencyAerobic Self-Assessment for Mountain AthletesThe Heart Rate Drift Test: A Functional Measure of FitnessWhen and How to Add High-Intensity Training: The 10 Percent TestMaking the Most of Your Uphill Athlete Training PlanNote that…
Heart-rate based training is at the core of building a strong aerobic base for every endurance athlete. Correctly establishing one’s heart rate zones, and programming training load accordingly, will produce the most effective training stimulus. Wrist heart rate monitors are simply not accurate enough for training. Use of a heart rate chest strap should be considered critical in order to use any Uphill Athlete training plan or coaching. Accurate data must be accompanied by logging which will allow you to look back on training and identify trends in fitness and recovery. We log and analyze using TrainingPeaks. This article explains…
Our Nose in a Day project wasn’t supposed to take so long. COVID closures, issues with training, the California wildfires—nothing went exactly as planned. But none of that mattered when we started up the route at 6:15 p.m. on October 17, 2020. There would be no surprises on the pitches to come. We knew the moves, had our gear dialed, already knew where and when we would drink and eat. We were prepared for the way the light from our headlamps would erase the granite features, as if the walls were no longer three-dimensional objects. All we had to do…
I dream of doing epic linkups, pushing all day and night. I love the feeling of going deep into my mind-body connection while covering technical terrain with a lot of vertical change. But I’m not an alpinist, and I’m not an ultrarunner. I’m a bikepacker. I train to ride my mountain bike over hundreds of singletrack miles through wild places, often in a sleep-deprived state. You won’t find my passion—bikepacking—covered elsewhere on the Uphill Athlete website. But I believe there are clear links between it and other mountain sports, with the similarities ranging from the foundational muscles used to the…
Carolyn Parker, Alison Naney and Maya Seckinger talk about training adjustments for our hormonal cycle and other considerations around our reproductive health as physically active women. Women have Incredibly broad experiences managing their reproductive health. And perhaps it’s a reflection of that fact that we have three very diverse perspectives represented in our own coaching group – from early life experiences with birth control, to navigating pregnancy and birth, all the way to menopause. We share honest stories and experiences, as well as recommendations for how to manage our female cycles and physiologies while training and being active in the…