• Training

    Nordic Walking Training

    Nordic walking training might seem to be simply walking with trekking poles. It’s much more complicated than that though. When I was in Russia for Elbrus Race 2013 I had the opportunity to spend a few days with the women members of a Russian Nordic Walking group that stayed with us and did some training at altitude on the slopes of Elbrus. I enjoyed watching their morning stretching routine and certain aspects of that portion of Nordic walking training made its way into my recent book Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging. CLICK HERE If you cringe whenever you see someone ambling, shuffling slowly, poking forward with…

  • Workout

    Farmers Carry Workout

    Here’s the Farmers Carry Workout I’ve developed over the last few weeks. It’s good for my trail running and hiking and I’m sure it would be worth your while to watch the short video for my own variation on a Farmers Carry Workout, posted to my youtube channel. With this Farmers Carry Workout I’m doing the following: 25 Trapbar Deadlifts at 65 lb. 100 steps with Trapbar 100 Kicks – running high knee, high heel drill Walking back to the Trapbar and picking it up I did 12 repetitions of that sequence over a total of 1.5 miles. Over that distance I did 300 Trapbar Deadlifts. I did 1200 steps…