Snow Fit:
Total Preparation Clinic
Saturday October
9th then Weekday evenings TBA,
Location in Redmond
(details will be sent)
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (1 hour
break for lunch)
Evening workouts:
4 weeks starting)
6.30 to 8pm
Clinic Leaders: Stuart
Craig and Petra Hilleberg
A full fitness and movement based clinic!
Snowfit summer program
This summer we are running our Snowfit programs in
Redmond, starting with an all day movement awareness
breakdown and rebuild day, followed by 4 evening
workouts.
Stuart Craig and Petra Hilleberg will take you to new
levels of fitness and body awareness, and coach you in
movements that will immediately transfer to your skiing.
Get ready for skiing and other sports by
improving your fitness, your movements and your
alignment, so you can enhance your on-snow performance
and efficiency as well as help protect you from injury.
As with all of our clinics, this
one is all about constantly engaged body alignment,
function and fun. The goal of Snow Fit is to look at
ways that you can supplement or modify what you are
already doing (or to create a new program) so you can
gain greater on-snow results.
We’ll explore training that
constantly engages your stance in order to produce
efficient movements, and then look to add in true power
training, something that is often missing from ski
“fitness” programs. After all, all snow sports – alpine,
Tele, and XC skiing and snowboarding – are dynamic
sports that demand the power to move your body to keep
it able to resist and react to all the forces of the
snow-sliding movements.
There is no kind of minimum
requirement here: Snow Fit is equally accessible to
someone who is super fit or someone just looking to get
more prepared for winter. And no matter if you’ve got
some injury, and no matter what age you are, these ideas
are applicable to you., And everything we will do in
Snow Fit is based on the same stance, movements and
movement concepts we work with all winter, so you’ll be
pre-loading your body and brain for any of our on-snow
clinics this winter.
Some of the key
concepts of Snow Fit:
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Training
and strengthening your functional stance quickly and
easily
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Using
that stance awareness in what you’re already doing
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How
to train to add power to your moves while
maintaining an excellent, engaged stance, whether by
supplementing your current fitness training or by
changing them
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Adding more agility to your movements
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How
to think about your on-snow goals and train for them
off snow
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How to think about your overall fitness goals and
build a plan to accommodate what you want, both in
general and for the snow season
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How to maximize your body’s strengths
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And, of course, how to have a huge amount of fun
while creating a surprisingly easy path to better
snow (and general fitness) performance!
We’ll start the day with some
concepts of training, and show you simple ways to add to
your training – or to create new kinds of training.
Through the use of “toys,” as well as bodyweight
exercises we’ll explore balance, strength, and movement
training, and we’ll do some sample “workouts.”
Many of
the “toys” we’ll have are ones you probably already
have, and we’ll show you a variety of ways to use them.
This includes, among other things, traditional weights,
resistance bands, challenge-your-balance boards, as well
as plyometric-oriented items like boxes and jump ropes.
We’ll also play with suspended training systems, kettle
bells, and sand bags, and speed/agility trainers like
agility ladders, and cones.
Snow Performance’s Telemark and XC Program Director, and
Alpine coach, Stuart is a PSIA Level 3 Telemark, Level 3
Track and Level 2 Alpine instructor, and is the former
Chief Telemark Examiner for the Northwest Division of
PSIA. He has coached on both college and high school
levels, and is a certified American Kettle bell Club (AKC)
coach. He currently teaches fitness training, martial
arts and self-defense as well as skiing, and is working
towards taking his Certified Strength and Conditioning
Specialist certification. Stuart is also pursuing
multiple Cross Fit certifications as well as other
professional fitness/training courses. He is well-known
as having an outstanding understanding of the technical
concepts behind snow sports movements and how to get
others to see and feel them, and he brings that same eye
(and passion) to fitness training.
