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Happy Monday! You made it through week one! If you’ve looked ahead at the plan, you’ll see that the flow of the weeks will be similar as we move forward. If you need to swap days around due to your schedule, please do so. One thing to remember is not to have two harder workouts in a row. Hopefully the aerobic threshold baseline made sense and you were able to do it. We’ll cover how to make sense of the results in our Zoom call Tuesday (at 8am-more on that later in the email), but here’s a video that walks you through it. Some of you have asked about stretching, and I shared a couple of mobility videos, one for the hips, and one for the lower leg/feet. If you have ideas for other areas, please let me know and I’ll make them. However, our good friend Bree Dillon, founder of Motive Yoga Co. has an online platform for yoga that is body-part and sport specific, with videos 15-60 min. long. She’s offering a discount code for all of you that we hope you’ll take advantage of! Use the code SKIPREPYOGA for 50% of three months of Motive Yoga Online. There’s also a free week to try if you want to check it out first. As an athlete herself, her understanding of the anatomy and mechanics combined with her thoughtful instruction is the best yoga I’ve ever done. The other instructor she has is also a PT so it’s all very thoughtful and effective: give it a go! There was a question on slack about breathing, which made me really excited. Breathing plays such a critical role in our lives that we often don’t pay attention to in normal life, let alone while exercising. I plan to write a more comprehensive post on the topic, but until then, the book Breath by James Nestor is a great book that goes into the massive topic. My favorite clinical book is called Anatomy of Breathing, by Blandine Calais-Germain. The author brings her perspective as a dancer to a resource that does a great job explaining the processes and muscles involved with breathing (she also wrote Anatomy of Movement, and The Female Pelvis which I highly recommend). Finally, the book The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama is another resource for how to find more awareness around your breath. Finally, as you start doing more training or increasing the intensity through adding strength or intensity workouts, make sure that you’re eating enough. Here's a post our RD wrote on optimizing nutrition for recovery and injury prevention and here’s one on post-activity snack ideas, two very common questions as nutrition relates to training. We’re excited to have our first zoom meeting this Tuesday at 8am PDT. If you have any questions for us, plop them in Slack, or feel free to reply to this email. We’ll record the session to watch later if you can’t make the live version. Cascade Endurance is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Ski Prep Zoom Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85949618032?pwd=QS9LKzMvQWNNLzZmYkNIeDQyVXcrdz09 Meeting ID: 859 4961 8032 Passcode: lovetheup --- One tap mobile +12532050468,,85949618032#,,,,*601734453# US +12532158782,,85949618032#,,,,*601734453# US (Tacoma) --- Dial by your location • +1 253 205 0468 US • +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) • +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) • +1 669 444 9171 US • +1 719 359 4580 US • +1 720 707 2699 US (Denver) • +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) • +1 646 931 3860 US • +1 689 278 1000 US • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) • +1 305 224 1968 US • +1 309 205 3325 US • +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) • +1 360 209 5623 US • +1 386 347 5053 US • +1 507 473 4847 US • +1 564 217 2000 US Meeting ID: 859 4961 8032 Passcode: 601734453 Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kc8Ue5bWpX See you soon! -Alison and Sam
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