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New Program Info for the Alpine Insurance Alberta World Cup Academy

(Press Release) March 20, 2019 – Our Academy programs in Canmore and Calgary are currently accepting applications. We have brought changes to our Program Guidelines for 2019-20, new options are now...

Wednesday Workout: The Pressure is Off Approach to Your First World Cup

At eighteen-years-old, Gus Schumacher remains composed in what is a pressure cooker of endurance sport. There he was last week on his home tracks of Kincaid Park in Anchorage, AK., claiming four first place medals and...

Wednesday Workout: Guiding Junior Athletes With Adam St. Pierre

This Wednesday Workout includes guidance from Boulder Nordic Junior Race Team (BNJRT) Head Coach Adam St. Pierre. After earning a BS in Physics and Biochemistry while skiing for Colby College in Maine, St Pierre earned a...

Wednesday Workout: Race Prep with UNM’s Kornelius Grov

For this week’s Wednesday Workout, FasterSkier talked to University of New Mexico (UNM) racer Ben Berend about how his teammate, Kornelius Groev, the fastest skate skier on the RMISA circuit this season, gets ready for...

Wednesday Workout: Cold Weather Resource for Insiders and Outsiders

If you find yourself this morning in a part of the world where it’s truly cold, we feel for you. If you get outside and ski today, say in the Midwest (we’re thinking of you Duluth), the snow might be sandpaper slow,...

First Tracks as a New Parent: Kikkan Randall [Part 2]

The “First Tracks” series highlights the pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting experiences of noteworthy athletes in cross-country skiing in various stages of their professional careers. The sharing of these...

Wednesday Workout: Exploring Macro and Micro Terrain with Bernie Nelson

This Wednesday Workout comes from a true cross-country coaching whisperer: Bernie Nelson. First off, if you aren’t familiar with Bernie — she’s not a dude as the name might suggest. It’s Bernadette, but its Bernie...

First Tracks as a New Parent: Kikkan Randall [Part 1]

Wednesday Workout: What’s the Prescription for “Flooding” Legs?

2014 is when a relatively green Patrick O’Brien took charge of the Stratton Mountain School’s elite team, otherwise known as SMS T2. In a relatively short time, by way of juggling athletes, wax-teching, training plan...

All I Want for Xmas is a New Wax Bench by Scott “Bjorn” Cummings

In March of 2016, we published an article penned by Scott “Bjorn” Cummings, a Postbaccalaureate student working towards his Academic Behavorial Strategist K-12 (ABS) Special Education License at the University of...

2018 FS Gift Guide: The Complex Realities of Sport and Life as Told by Andre Agassi

As FasterSkier staff stroll into an upcoming weekend with no cross-country World Cups, it’s time to scramble and score some holiday gifts for friends and loved ones. Christmas is around the corner. It’s...

Wednesday Workout: A Flashback to 2016 and Midweek Race Prep with the U.S. Ski Team

We hear a lot about the details of a cross-country ski racer's day on race day, but what about those four or five days in between? What do World Cup racers do then, in the middle of the week? FasterSkier Norwegian...

A Holiday Gift for Improved Mobility: ‘Becoming a Supple Leopard’ by Kelly Starrett

As FasterSkier staff stroll into an upcoming weekend with no cross-country World Cups, it's time to scramble and score some holiday gifts for friends and loved ones. Christmas is around the corner. It's never...

Wednesday Workout: Getting Out With Kids in Tow

This week’s workout comes from contributing reporter Rachel Perkins, a former USCSA National Champion turned dedicated citizen racer and now a new mom to a baby girl born in October. Here Rachel shares tips from her own...

Wednesday Workout: Core Nordic Exercises with Stuart Kremzner

The following strength and performance tips come from one of our resident experts, Stuart Kremzner, MS, CSCS, FMSII, OS, RN, an exercise physiologist who has coached and raced in nordic skiing for over 20 years....

Wednesday Workout: Simi Hamilton’s 10’000 Foot View of Fun

This post in our long-running Wednesday Workout series takes the 10,000-foot view — almost literally. The nuts and bolts of it are this: we’re posting Simi Hamilton’s training log from Monday, April, 3oth...

Wednesday Workout: Beach Skiing with the Bowdoin Nordic Team

The workout this week comes from the head coach of the rising Bowdoin Ski Team, Nate Alsobrook. While it can certainly be beneficial to train at altitude or in the mountains, Alsobrook shows that the unexpected beaches of...

Back to Basics: How to ‘Reset’ for Nordic Performance

Wednesday Workout: Diversify Your Core Strength Progression from U.S. D-Team Coach Gus Kaeding

This gem of a Wednesday Workout comes from U.S. Ski Team Development Coach Gus Kaeding. Ready yourself for the complete menu of the U.S. Cross Country Team's core exercises. This spring, the USST coaches sat...

Wednesday Workout: Sizzling Hot 30/30’s with BSF’s Nick Michaud

This Wednesday Workout was provided by twenty-six-year-old Bridger Ski Foundation (BSF) skier Nick Michaud. Bates College educated and raised plumb-line north in Fort Kent Maine, Michaud has emerged as a sprinter to watch...