By Casey Dean, in-house writer for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); photograph courtesy NOLS Forget a bikini bod—it ...

Turns continuously engage your core, quads, glutes and stabilizer muscles while also ramping up cardiovascular work. Quick ...

If you’re planning a winter ski trip, you have probably given plenty of thought to the warm clothes, the gear and the lodge. Now it’s time to plan for injury prevention. A common ski injury is a tear ...

Whether you’re a skier or not, some of the most common aches and pains can be traced back to hip weakness and instability If your lower back or knees ache at the end of a long day on the slopes, you ...

There are many great statements to define fitness, and even more approaches to acquire fitness stardom. The simplest definition of fitness is “the ability to perform a task.” A clear goal of running a ...

Dr. Neil Blanchard, an orthopedic surgeon at Penn State Health Orthopedics and Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in ...

If this season is anything like the last, more than 11 million people will flood into United States ski resorts – and about 66,000 of them will go to the hospital with an injury. Skiing injuries have ...

You might never strap on skis, but you should still aspire to have the endurance of a Nordic skier. Some of the fittest athletes on the planet, cross-country skiers have extraordinary cardiovascular ...

Do tele skiers go to the gym? Asking for a friend. The telemark turn is not just a single movement. At its height it is the constant, improvisational execution of dynamism on snow; each lunge, each ...