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The Mountains Are Calling Ski conditioning on the ViPR BY MICHOL DALCOURT
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t started with a simple question: “If a farm kid wrestled a city kid, and you were a betting person, where’s your money?” Nearly all responses are the same: the farm kid. But why? What makes doing chores and moving our whole body to accomplish tasks so effective? Why are these farm kids so strong? The answers lie in the very nature of our design. Human bodies are, for the most part, designed to perform task-oriented, full-body movements. That is how our nerves, muscles, joints, connective tissues adapt, remodel and become resilient in the most optimal way. It is this perspective, and the science that supports it, that was the genesis for the invention and foundation behind the ViPR PRO product. Simply, it is similar to a bale of hay (i.e., what most farm kids 46
get used to lifting), without the mess. The intention with using the ViPR PRO product is functional training—performing whole-body, integrated movements, which are task based, exactly what you would do performing chores in life. Farm kids intuitively know this, and modern athletes know this. From Patrick Mahomes to Steph Curry, from Joel Embiid to Fernando Tatis. Jr., they all incorporate movement-based, functional training using the ViPR PRO. As with elite athletes, consideration needs to be made when looking at improvement in movement and athleticism. Strength, stamina, mobility, motor control (i.e., the ability of the nervous system to control range of motion and body-wide movements) and power all have to be present in order to achieve long-term success in all of the activities we love. And so it is with skiing, in unique ways.
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