A love of the mountains inspired Lisa Marie Mercer to abandon a sucessful New York City fitness career to move to Colorado. Now, she's the owner of Mountain Sport Fitness and the author of Open Your Heart With Winter Fitness. Lisa has worked as the fitness coach for Ski Portillo and other prestigious ski camps.

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This article is part of Denver's Holiday Guide

Holiday gifts for potential snow-sliders

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November 30, 12:53 PM

by Lisa Mercer, Colorado Mountain Fitness Examiner

Most skiers and snowboarders know at least one person who refuses to get involved with winter sports. The person can be a friend, a lover, a parent, or all of the above.

Open Your Heart with Winter Fitness: Mastering Life Through Love of the Slopes describes the physical, spiritual and psychological benefits of learning a snowsport as an adult. The second part of the book features a detailed fitness plan, which is designed to enhance balance and improve the agility and coordination required for skiing and snowboarding. Written with humor and empathy, even experts such as Kristen Ulmer, Deb Armstrong and Lito Tejades Flores have enjoyed this book. You can order it here.

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Copper Mountain wants you to eat healthy

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November 27, 4:10 PM

This year, healthy eating on the slopes is a focus of my SOS kids. Needless to say, given the propensity for junk food on the mountain is rather high. In the past, many have complained about that after lunch sense of fatique. What the mentors... Read More
Topics: healthy eating

Give the gift of ski fitness

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November 26, 8:40 AM

If you read this page on a regular basis, you probably have friends who are skiers or snowboarders. So when holiday season comes around, what do you get them? Thye no-doubt have neck gaitors and gloves up the wazoo, so why not give them something of... Read More
Topics: Gifts

Rethinking your warm-up

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November 20, 3:39 PM

Stetching is not a warm-up, but warming up for skiing or snowboarding is a great idea. That said, in the past decade, opinions regarding how to warm up for sports have changed considerably. Today, we view pre-ski warm-ups as a dress rehearsal for your... Read More
Topics: warm-ups

Five stations of a skier's body video

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November 18, 1:38 PM

I'n the past, I've made a number of posts about the Five Stations of a Skier's Body. Now for those of you who are auditory learners, my friends Alex and Tommi have put together a video on this subject. Check it out! While there are many ideas about ... Read More
Topics: ski conditioning

Boomer fitness

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November 13, 8:28 AM

Having come of age with Jane Fonda workouts, along with the wisdom of Kenneth Cooper, many baby boomers feel that we actually invented the fitness movement. Indeed, the "work for the burn" and "no pain, no gain" philosophy of... Read More
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An Odd ski fitness machine

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November 10, 8:15 AM

The phrase "train the chain" is one of the most common pieces of advice used by sport conditioning professionals who are "in the know." They arereferring to the kinetic chain, which is a connected sequence of events that when put... Read More
Topics: ski fitness machines

Pilates and the Athletic Skier

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November 4, 7:14 PM

Many people consider Warren Witherall's Athletic Skier to be the bible of ski technique. In his book, Witherall discussed the distinct qualities of skiers who could be described as athletic. It's interesting to note that these qualities are somewhat... Read More
Topics: pilates , the athletic skier

Winter fitness Colorado style

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November 2, 12:17 PM

This photo, courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western History Collection, was taken in my neck of the woods: Breckenridge, Colorado. In 2009, Breckenridge will be 150 Years Old! The photo was taken long before Breckenridge was a famous... Read More
Topics: winter fintess , breck 150

Stations of a skier's body: Knees

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October 28, 10:52 AM

My good buds Alex and Tommi of Discover Movement have continued their discussion of the Stations of a Skier's Body. In my last post on the subject, I spoke about the feet and ankles. Do you remember that old song, the knee bone's connected to the thigh... Read More
Topics: knees