
Injury Mitigation for the Gravity Athlete
Be you a beginner, local, or pro, we have program’s that will help get the best out of your upcoming season.
Our approach
Stay off the ground. We strive to keep you upright when possible, and control the fall when it’s not.
Our Free four-week balance program combines neuro-adaptive drills to cut down on hillside injuries with strength building exercises needed for long days on the slopes. This program looks to build a base of balance with low impact work to maximize your long weekend in the high country.
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Integrated with Train Heroic
A moment to talk about an incident response on snow as an Athletic Trainer. Whiteout conditions, off piste. A former ski racer was with friends on a vacation, on snow again for the first time in two years. Variable snow, runout of an average western bowl. Ski caught on an unseen mogul, & snap goes the shin bone. I bring this up because injuries all to often happen not on the steep couloirs, but at the bottom of a run completed countless times before.
No program can prevent all injuries. The demands of this sport bears little resemblance to everyday life, and the sport is dangerous no matter your skill level. We can mitigate the danger with preparation that matches the sport. Here's how it works:
Bone, muscle, tendon, and ligament tissue adapts to repeated stress, and this is how we getting better throughout a season. However, our bodies cannot maintain all our adaptions & gains from the season over a summer, let alone a year. The closer we can get to imposing forces found to skiing in our preparation, the better our body will respond to these forces out on the hill.
This program utilizes body-weight exercises centered around balance to generate neuromuscular changes to serves you while fatigued on the hill. Built to fit into the work week before, during, and after the ski season ends. Maintain the form you worked to attain on the hill through the week, between trips, or between seasons.
Nicholas is a Certified Athletic Trainer working with collegiate & elite athletes to cut down on injuries while competing at their best. Nicholas combines this professional experience with eight years as a ski instructor to build a program that accommodates and propels athletes of all backgrounds and abilities.
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"Yo! Just wanted to say thank you! Just had two back to back pow days and the glutes/knees down were wayyy more solid than my last few days on the hill."
— Nick Batchelder
Snowboarder out of Mammoth
Verified Athlete