#FitForSnow: Specific Fitness Intervals for the Pre-season
In this article, Delia Roberts PhD, talks about how to interval train and outlines a basic interval to get you started.
#Knees4Skis 2021: expert tips to reduce your risk of injury
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#FitForSnow: Pre-season Intervals for Power and Endurance
There are a lot of ways to build and maintain fitness. If you work in a physical job like wildland firefighting or tree planting or are a competitive athlete (or just train like one), your baseline fitness from work and exercise will be very high.
#FitForSnow: Pre-Season Preparation Tips
Research shows that the fitter the individual the less likely they are to be injured. If you’ve been active all summer, all you need is a bit of specific work to start your season, but if you’ve spent the last month or so at a desk or on the couch, you’ll need to build some…
Sign-Up to be Ski Fit Ready!
Sign-up for our free Ski Fit Ready Program for the month of October only!
Quad Wasting after ACL Injury: A ‘Prehabilitation’ Approach
Tearing the ACL— a dreaded diagnosis often accompanied by reconstructive surgery and extensive rehabilitation. This injury is common in sports that involve sudden stops or changes in direction, jumping or landing, such as soccer, basketball, gymnastics, football, or downhill skiing.
ACL injuries in ballet dancers
Given the high volume of jumping performed in a typical ballet class (up to 200 jumps per 90 minute class1), you would expect ACL injuries to be ubiquitous amongst ballet dancers.
Research highlight – The Patellar Apprehension Test: how good a test is it for assessing stabilization surgery?
Patellar instability – an unstable or dislocating kneecap – is a debilitating condition that frequently occurs in young, active people, that significantly affects their quality of life.
Trail Running & ITB Pain
It’s getting to that time of year again in the Rockies. As the snow starts melting trail runners and hikers alike start to venture higher up into the alpine on foot. Although many may have spent the winter ski touring or running the trails closer to valley bottom, the longer pounding descents on feet are…
Management of lower limb (aka knee) injuries in youth athletes
Knee injuries are common in youth athletes with up to 1 in 4 athletes at risk of sustaining this type of injury. Approximately one-third of patients seen in the Banff Sport Medicine Clinic are youth. For example, the Clinic assesses approximately 1500 acute knee injuries in patients aged 5 to 24 each year.
“Valgus” – the 4 letter word of the ski & snowboard industry
Valgus isn’t a word you’ll hear underneath the chair lifts or in the maze awaiting the gondola. But when you see it happen in a ski or snowboard crash, you’ll know by the unsettling visceral response your body shutters. Someone’s day just went valgus.
#Knees4Skis: On Hill Warm Up
A few minutes is all it takes to start off your day with this simple On Hill Warm Up.