Author: Team Summit

Bar Patterns in Strength Training Part 1 in the series   Establishing proper movement patterns in our sports is one of the keys to success in reaching our goals. The human body has seven primary movement patterns that are refined throughout life: gait (walking or running), squatting, lunging, pulling, pushing, pressing (overhead) and twisting. Your brain is very efficient and one of its objectives is to record and recall movement patterns that make life easier, allowing it more capacity to handle anomalies in movement such as speed, rate of force production, and forces moving through...

10 Easy Things You Can Do To Improve Performance Here we are on snow and getting really close to the season’s first competitions for many of you. We have seen a lot of great work throughout the summer and during the Fall strength and conditioning sessions. I know it’s difficult to have your most productive training day on-hill every single time you put on your skis or board, but here are 10 simple things you can address every time you train, to help you improve through the season. Be On-Time Plan a little extra time to get to the hill every day so you are not in a rush when...