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Skiers go into the weight room to turn strength into power, and as the big races approach, to turn this into ski specific power. With the New Year here the racing season is very much underway for most skiers. For those with Olympic aspirations, many athletes are getting more ski specific with their strength and power building, both in the weight room, and on snow. Andrew Newell V2ing uphill en route to a fast prologue...

The US National championship at Soldier Hollow, Utah starts on January 3. The first race is the 15/30-kilometer freestyle. We ran into a number of the contenders training at Soldier Hollow in the morning of December 24 and asked them what type of training they were doing today. The conditions were perfect with fast hard packed course snow, rock solid classic tracks, 28-30 Fahrenheit, sunshine and no wind. Carl Swenson, US Ski Team (Two twelfth...

Much of the science in endurance sports begins with intricate testing to benchmark athletes in an effort to help develop physiologic and biomechanical methods to tweak performance. Dr. Sue Beaudet, a professor at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, recently spent a sabbatical at the Vuokatti Sport Institute in Finland. Vuokatti was chosen because of its specialization in the study of cross-country skiing and biathlon at a world-class level. While in Finland, Dr. Beaudet...

For new readers (and reminder for the old ones): Reprint of a popular December 2004 training and race preparation article. In an article called Get Ready For Racing With A Time-Trial Or Pace Workout posted on November 10th I discussed some physiological advantages from doing time-trials and pace workouts. Here are some technical benefits from doing this type of training. To view the Get Ready For Racing With A Time-Trial Or Pace Workout article go...

We are frequently getting requests from (new) readers for information on skate and classic technique. Here is some information on recent/last year’s technique articles, a very good skate CD-ROM called Perfect Skating and some skate and classic videos. www.fasterskier.com/training.php?id=1386 Perfect Skating CD-Rom The authors of the skate articles above made a great CD-Rom that covers all aspects of skating (race techniques, drills and exercises). Hundreds of video clips and great ideas. A great gift as...

Here is the November issue of the FasterSkier Club newslettter. These articles are sent to our club subscribers each month via email. To sign up, see the end of this article. FASTERSKIER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE – 2005 November, 2005 Volume 2 Issue 7 The Club! This is the seventh issue of the 2005 season Fasterskier.com’s subscription service covering in-depth, modern and interesting issues in the sport of Cross-Country skiing. The subscription service runs from May...

We are a little late getting this on the web, but we wanted our readers to see the great articles that were sent to FasterSkier.com Club Subscribers in October: FASTERSKIER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE – 2005 October, 2005 The October 2005 issue This month we include several articles: 1. Biomechanical research of Double Poling in Elite Cross-Country Skiers. A research article by Dr. HC Holmberg, Olympic Committee, Sweden and Dr. Stefan LINDINGER, Department of Sport Science...

Swede Anders Sodergren has had a successful training season this year. He has trained well and been free of injuries and sickness. If that continues, he’ll be one of Sweden’s biggest medal hopes in the Turin Olympics in February. Source: Skidsport.com/Glid – I felt very good at the end of the last altitude camp in Val Senales, Italy, especially in the distance workouts. I struggled a little at the beginning, says Anders Sodergren He is...

Ok, the article in Norwegian newspaper VG didn’t say that, instead it talks about the fact that the Norwegian Team is still rollerskiing, but click on the link and see why we thought our headline was more fitting…

Bob Hamel, of the Cambridge Sports Union nordic ski club (Boston, MA-area based, CSU), has been working in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (Get out your map and look south and west. Way way way south-west). We can only assume that these photos are being released because Hamel has found yet another, even more successful training secret for his Club members, one that will allow them to win the NENSA Club series for...

Skiing at Sunshine! The pictures below provide a pretty good idea of what kind of treasure was found by some at Sunshine Ski Village in Banff, Alberta on Saturday October 22. Arrangements were made for a group of Canmore based skiers to get in some early season skiing on a beautiful and crisp morning in the Rockies. Members of Rocky Mountain Racers, Exel Racing Team, X-C.Com and XC Ottawa as well as a few others...

Brian Erickson, one of the coaches of the Alaska Winter Stars ski program in Anchorage, Alaska sent us these pictures of early season skiing at Hatcher Pass. Last weekend brought the first real good skiing to Southcentral Alaska. The Alaska Winters Stars took advantage of beautiful weather and perfect snow to log many hours of skiing at Hatcher Pass State Park. Along with the Winter Stars there were many other skiers from around Anchorage enjoying...