POST TIME TELEVISION: Season Transitions

Click here to watch video  for great shots of the four seasons in the Roaring Fork Valley--especially winter in Aspen.

Add comment October 13th, 2007

Getting Ready for Ski Conditioning Class

With winter around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about getting your body ready for ski season.

I have taught ski conditioning on and off for the past five years and I am consistently hearing the same question from clients: “How do I get my body ready to take a ski conditioning class?”

Going from zero to 60 in 10 seconds is OK for a car, but our bodies need a little bit more of a warmup. Pulled hamstrings and twisted ankles are no way to start the ski season. Those who did not do much physical activity this summer except maybe a couple hikes may want to get their heart rates up before the first class.

Continue Reading Add comment October 2nd, 2007

RocKtober

By AspenSpin

When the calender strikes October, one thing comes to the forefront at Aspen Spin. That one thing ----- SKI CONDITIONING. Our entire staff is hitting it hard at the super-posh Aspen Club and Spa. Since the weather is still awesome we're continuing to hike and bike like bi-atchs. But, as of today it's www.AspenClub.com each and every day.

With the help of a wellness counselor at The Aspen Club we designed a daily fitness and nutrition routine that should allow all of us at Aspen Spin to have a healthier, more productive ski season. So here it is. Cardio--45 minutes. Core and strength exercises using the bosu ball, medicine ball and fitness ball and some light weights. What can we say--we like to ball. We're concentrating on balance and core specific exercises for skiing ---some of the same ones that Bode Miller does. The whole thing is followed by some serious stretching.

Continue Reading Add comment October 1st, 2007

Ski Conditioning

We will be offering a public ski conditioning class that will focus on strength, power and explosive moves. The ski conditioning class we offer through group X offers plyometrics and a great cardio workout. We want to supplement this program with small group trainings.

Continue Reading Add comment October 1st, 2007

CON GAMES: Welcome To Worker's Paradise

It's all coming back at me now--all those nasty quips about Mayor Mick Ireland and his foot-in-mouth Aspen City Council being Communists.

Now people are telling me without prompting that Mick and his minions really are Communists--no joke.

Still it's funny. I opened the Sunday newspaper this morning to see Aspen being "nickle and dimed" to death because everything costs a limb, even little things. And then there was the story under the headline "Council Visualizes Ajax Base" about how what we really need is affordable housing where the Lodge at Aspen hoped to put (gasp!) a hotel. Mick made the statement that what we really need is affordable housing and a lift that comes right into town.

Continue Reading 1 comment September 30th, 2007

Don’t Stop Now

Many of us live our lives in a truely cyclical nature. Meaning that we do things based on what time of year it is. In some respects this is great because it gives us some variety and we don’t get sick of doing the same old things everyday. But, we also need to be careful as the weather starts to change here in the Valley. Soon it will be too cold to go up smuggler or ride to the bells in short sleeves. Yet, you won’t be able to hit the slopes or bust out the snowshoes, either.

Continue Reading Add comment September 12th, 2007

The True Mission of Challenge Aspen

After a freak skiing accident left her paralyzed fifteen years ago, all Amanda Boxtel did was found Challenge Aspen and become a motivational speaker who never tires of telling her story. That story includes her trip now underway to India in hopes of recovering function from experimental embryonic stem cell research therapies banned in the United States.

Continue Reading Add comment June 19th, 2007

Klug Takes A Ride

ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug is considered nothing less than the embodiement of all that's good about America--and Aspen. His ride to a bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a kidney transplant still has to be considered one of the great sports stories of the aborning 21st Century.

Klug's wild ride will be commemorated and celebrated Tuesday night at the Paramount Theater in Denver in the "Ride of Your Life," a documentary that tells the amazing story of what happened after Klug contracted Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in 1993, a rare live disease.

Continue Reading 1 comment April 15th, 2007

Skico's Auden Schendler Tells All

Auden Schendler: It just changed. I’m now “executive director of community and environmental responsibility.” The idea is that in most corporations there’s a department called “Corporate Social Responsibility.” And we figure in reality caring about the environment is no different than caring about how your kids grow up. It’s the same issue of responsibility and respect. And we’re now taking over Skico’s philanthropy. When Skico comps lift tickets, my department is in charge of that. We also work with the Crown Family Fund.

Continue Reading Add comment March 12th, 2007

Brazilian Snowboarders 'Surfing The Mountains'

ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--"Surfing the Mountains" is a trilogy about two brothers searching for the best snowboarding mountains. Snowboarding is the instrument that the use to go “surfing” through local cultures and philosophies. Renowned Aspen cameraman Greg Poschman was a key part of the production.

Continue Reading Add comment February 16th, 2007