Sugar Bowl Ski Academy/TRX with Douglas Brooks.

 Here PT  Douglas Brooks, Director of Athlete Conditioning for Sugar Bowl Ski Academy near Lake Tahoe, works with competitive skiers daily and knows what it takes to give them an edge. Here, he shares with us a TRX “triplex” he uses to increase the lower body strength and stability of his athletes. Start by doing 12 to 15 reps of each exercise for two to three sets. Also, these are somewhat advanced moves, so they should only be attempted by individuals who have mastered basic TRX movements.
This clip is brilliant for all you skiers out there. I have just learnt to ski after snowboarding for 5-years and training to me is important to allow good range of movement with stability within the whole body so we don't get those niggles/pains in the knees and hips we want to enjoy the feeling of the movement along with feeling strong within that movement. The TRX is just one of those pieces of equipment that can give you this. I love it and so do all of my clients in fact they ask to use it within there session, and who am I to say no. Training should be fun as well as seeing those all important results, Enjoy the movement.

PTA Global: In New Zealand for a ViPR Play out.

Here is PTA Global in New Zealand with the Vipr work out.
     I love this new bit of kit it works and is lots of fun made out of dense rubber you can be as rough as you like with it but without catching yourself on sharp edges. I have just acquired one (10kg) and have used it in one way or another in all my clients training sessions.
    You may be thinking its a piece of equipment for anyone under 30yrs but you would be wrong, wrong ,wrong last week a client and I had a great session with the Vipr and she is 72yrs young, As she said when she lifted it above her head, ' This will give me strength to lift my suitcase up onto a shelf on a train if I need too' she is an independent woman .
We must allow our training to give our bodies this dynamic strength with added stability. So movement training moves from the gym into our everyday life's.
 Now that makes sense, doesn't it?