Steve House

November 13th is sold out, but we opened another day. Sign up now for Saturday, November 12th.

You are invited to a custom nine-hour course taught by Steve House and Scott Johnston, authors of Training for the New Alpinism. This lecture-based class is designed to enable you to plan, execute, and modify as needed, an intellectually-sound training plan for all mountain endurance sports including Climbing, Alpinism, Mountaineering, Ski Mountaineering, SkiMo Racing, and Mountain Running (up to and including ultra-distances).

This workshop is ideal for mountain athletes and future athletes with and without prior training experience. Steve and Scott will teach you how to apply proven training theory in a structured way to most effectively train for your mountain sports. Some of the topics covered are:

Realistic, relevant self-assessment
Short and long term goals: Process vs. Outcome
Proven methods for improving your aerobic capacity
Specificity in training, when, where, and how to incorporate
Monitoring recovery and training states
Fatigue and how to manage it
Speed and its relation to strength
Strength training for endurance and uphill athletes
Specific workout design and programming
Use of TrainingPeaks.com for planning, recording and analyzing workouts particularly for improvements in aerobic capacity and carried fatigue