A year-round training system built for skiers over 50 — periodized programming that knows where you are in your season, a full exercise library with video, and a method refined over decades on the gym floor and on snow. Not a workout app with a ski label. A complete system for skiing hard, all season, for seasons to come.
Most ski-fitness programs are a list of exercises. This is a system — three training pillars that work together, sequenced across your year so each phase builds on the last.
Primary barbell lifts, unilateral and lateral work, loaded carries. The strength base that protects your joints and holds your edge through a long day on snow.
The A+A protocol and statodynamics — building ski endurance without the burn and the grind. More runs, less gassed, faster recovery between them.
Progressive balance that actually transfers to snow — static through dynamic through reactive — plus core trained as iron, not rubber, for control when the terrain turns on you.
Everything you need to train year-round, in one place. No guesswork about what to do this week — the system already knows where you are in your season.
Tell the app where you are relative to ski season and it surfaces the right program — Summer foundation, Fall prep, in-season maintenance, recovery. The training meets you in the right phase instead of leaving you to guess.
Every movement demonstrated with setup, coaching cues, and progressions. From the Peterson step-up to Copenhagen planks to the primary lifts — you always know exactly how to perform it and why it's in the program.
A full library of periodized programs spanning the entire training year. The seasons connect — your summer base sets up your fall sharpening, which sets up an in-season that maintains instead of interferes.
The full methodology behind the programs — the reasoning, the research, the masters-athlete principles — drawn from the complete Ski Strong for Life manual. When you want the why behind a protocol, it's there.
I spent years as a competitive powerlifter with a strong squat and a strong deadlift. And none of it was making me a better skier. Adding balance, unilateral work, and core stability to the foundation changed everything. That discovery is the foundation of this program.
Ski Strong for Life is the result of decades of training experience, a competitive powerlifting background, StrongFirst and Anti-Glycolytic Training certifications, and a 2016 seminar with strength coach Charles Poliquin that shaped the knee-resilience protocols at the core of the method. Every principle in the app has been tested — on the gym floor and on the mountain — over decades of continuous training. The full system began as a 33-chapter manual. The app is that system, made trainable.
Before it was an app, Ski Strong for Life was a 33-chapter manual — the complete methodology, the research behind every protocol, and the masters-athlete principles the programs are built on. Members get the full manual inside the app's knowledge base. It's the "why" behind every workout you'll do.
Want a taste first? Get Chapter 22 — Injury Prevention & Joint Resilience, the knee-resilience protocols shaped by that 2016 Poliquin seminar — free.
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Early members are shaping the program as it grows. In exchange, your rate stays locked for life as long as you remain subscribed. Cancel and return, and you'll pay standard pricing.
A coached tier — everything in Self-Guided plus weekly check-ins, form-review videos, and quarterly progress reviews — opens later this year to a limited number of members. Join now and you'll be first to hear when it does.
This program comes from decades under the bar, decades on snow, and a simple belief: skiers do better when they train with intent.