Year-Round
Conditioning Program for Professional Athletes
- The Stone Clinic Year-Round Conditioning Program for Professional Athletes offers
a unique opportunity for professional athletes to train in valuable physical and
mental conditioning programs led by world-renowned professional coaches and Olympians.
The program is designed to enhance an athletes' performance in competition, to
teach techniques to avoid injury in their respective sports, and to help injured
athletes regain strength and agility for the upcoming season. Ten
Quick Tips To Get In Top Shape for The Ski Season - The following article
provides you with ten different exercises to help get you ready for the upcoming
season. Train
Like a Pro for the Season and Dominate the Hill - There is more to
gearing up for the ski season than meets the eye. For the most part, people ready
themselves by rushing out to buy new skis boots and apparel; and in more fortunate
scenarios, arm themselves with a workout program at the gym that provides better
muscle tone. When the time comes to hit the slopes, however, a half-hearted approach
to ski fitness more often than not leads to fatigue and injury. High
Intensity Rehabilitation Training With the Pros - In the world of professional
skiing, there are two words that a racer never wants to hear. They are not "bad
weather," "icy conditions," or "steep course." They are "knee surgery." Once a
racer hears that, they usually assume that their season is over and that it will
take a year or more to return. What they do not know is that that is usually not
the case. Agility
and Speed Exercises - When recovering from an injury or surgery, it
is important that a careful post-op or post-injury program be drawn out, mapping
the return to activity. All the caution and careful rehab in the world cannot
account for what will actually take place out on the field, slopes, water, or
garden. But being as conditioned and responsive as able helps in a safe return
to--life. The following exercises aid in the development of improved quickness
and speed. The
Stone Clinic Pre-Skiing Training Program - This section is designed
to give some basic information on how to design and follow a 12-week pre-season
training program to get you in top shape for ski season. It is broken down into
two different training groups. The first step is to decide which group you fall
under. Next, review the different training components to get an idea of what falls
under each heading. Dry
Land Camps 1996
Training to Win: The Foundation's Third Annual Dry Land Pro Ski Training Camp
- A mere hundredth of a second can mean the difference between first and second
place in the highly competitive world of professional ski racing. Athletes continually
seek out the best coaches and training opportunities to insure they are in top
physical condition for the upcoming ski season. This same drive brought three
professional skiers to The Stone Clinic in August to attend the third annual Dry
Land Pro Ski Training Camp. |