By Casey Dean, in-house writer for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); photograph courtesy NOLS Forget a bikini bod—it ...

Turns continuously engage your core, quads, glutes and stabilizer muscles while also ramping up cardiovascular work. Quick ...

If you’re planning a winter ski trip, you have probably given plenty of thought to the warm clothes, the gear and the lodge. Now it’s time to plan for injury prevention. A common ski injury is a tear ...

Dr. Neil Blanchard, an orthopedic surgeon at Penn State Health Orthopedics and Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in ...

There are many great statements to define fitness, and even more approaches to acquire fitness stardom. The simplest definition of fitness is “the ability to perform a task.” A clear goal of running a ...

Have you heard a skier mention that they need to work on getting their "ski legs"? It's an odd phrase we use to describe the physical shape and strength we require to achieve our goals on skis, but ...

If this season is anything like the last, more than 11 million people will flood into United States ski resorts – and about 66,000 of them will go to the hospital with an injury. Skiing injuries have ...

Do tele skiers go to the gym? Asking for a friend. The telemark turn is not just a single movement. At its height it is the constant, improvisational execution of dynamism on snow; each lunge, each ...