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Alpine Updates – April 8th, 2020

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Alpine Updates – April 8th, 2020 Dear Team Summit Colorado Alpine Ability athletes, All Alpine Parents and Alpine Coaching staff:   Governor Polis has extended the stay at home order until April 26 resulting in the continuing postponement of Team Summit Alpine activities. Please see specific information about camp plans, conditioning activities and 2020-21 program plans below.   I join you in looking forward to getting over the hump and beginning a gradual return to a new normal. Whether in two weeks, two months, or longer we are preparing and adjusting our plans to resume...

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series – Week 3

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series Week 3 ┃ Day 3 Hey Team Summit families, While many of us are staying at home, Team Summit will be putting out 3 workouts per week to help you keep moving. The workouts will utilize little or no special equipment, just an open area in any room.  As athletes, we understand how difficult it is for you to sit still. Please remember to warm up for at least 5 minutes prior to each exercise session. Drink plenty of water throughout each day and eat nutritious meals.  When we get past this time you will be ready to hit the ground running!

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Athlete of the Month – River Mentch

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Podium Sports Athlete of the Month: River Mentch River has been the embodiment of our big mountain team throughout his time with us – fun, charismatic, helpful, and always willing to push himself.  This was River's final year with Team Summit as he will be graduating from Summit High School and moving onto Montana State next year.  After battling with a handful of injuries this season, he continued to always come back with a smile on his face ready for more.  It's going to be tough to lose River's positive attitude and charisma, but I know he'll continue...

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A Message From Our Partner: A Racer's Edge

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A letter from Chuck from A Racer's Edge   “Everything will be OK in the end. If it’s not OK, It’s not the end” – John Lennon Wow. Our world has really turned upside down. In support of the effort to curb the COVID-19 virus and the mandates of our State, County, and Town Governments, A Racer’s Edge is transitioning to Phone-in/email ONLY sales model. Our passionate staff is still available to help you with your skiing needs. Since 1972, we have been here for all your recreational, big mountain, and alpine racing ski needs. We eat, sleep, dream,...

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Bar Patterns Part 7 – Good Mornings

Written by Team Summit on . Posted in Archive 2020, strength training.

Bar Patterns: Good Mornings Part 7 in the series Grasp the bar with a clean grip. Your hands should be just a little wider apart than shoulder-width. You do not want to hold the bar with a wide grip, this will cause an internal rotation of your shoulders and loss of an upright posture as you stand in a position that resembles the back squat. Place the bar on your upper back so it is resting on your trapezius muscles as they are retracted back very tightly. You should not have the bar in contact with any vertebrae as it rests on your upper back. The shoulder retraction contracts your trapezius...

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series – Week 2

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series Hey Team Summit families, While many of us are staying at home, Team Summit will be putting out 3 workouts per week to help you keep moving. The workouts will utilize little or no special equipment, just an open area in any room.  As athletes, we understand how difficult it is for you to sit still. Please remember to warm up for at least 5 minutes prior to each exercise session. Drink plenty of water throughout each day and eat nutritious meals.  When we get past this time you will be ready to hit the ground running!

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Alpine Updates – March 27, 2020

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Dear Team Summit Colorado Alpine Ability athletes, All Alpine parents, and Alpine Coaching staff: None of us could have imagined the profound impact on our daily lives that the global battle with the Corona Virus has created. Actions taken over the past several weeks by health authorities, schools, our sport governing body and our own organization that may have seemed alarmist at the time have proved to be prudent in the two weeks since.   We don't know when restrictions will ease, programming can resume and some normalcy will return. At the same time, we continue both our short-range...

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series – Week 1

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Team Summit's At-Home Workout Series Hey Team Summit families, While many of us are staying at home, Team Summit will be putting out 3 workouts per week to help you keep moving. The workouts will utilize little or no special equipment, just an open area in any room.  As athletes, we understand how difficult it is for you to sit still. Please remember to warm up for at least 5 minutes prior to each exercise session. Drink plenty of water throughout each day and eat nutritious meals.  When we get past this time you will be ready to hit the ground running!

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Charitable Donations, ColoradoGives & COVID-19

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A letter from our Board President:     Team Summit appreciates your patience as we navigate these uncertain times and what looks to be an extended interruption to everything we know.   Many of you may not be aware of the effort that goes into keeping tuition lower than actual program costs. Tuition covers approximately 50% of the total cost to operate our programs.    The remainder of Team Summit’s income comes from community fundraising, in-kind donations, grants, and events which generate over $1.7 million each year. Due to the suspension of activities...

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