The Last Plateau

The American Journal of Sports Medicine sets the record straight.

You’re a skier first, parent second, right? Even so, leave it to the pros when it comes to indoctrinating junior with your love for the sport. Here are seven tips on when and how to book ski lessons for the kids.

Win a four-day trip to Utah for you and a friend.

iPhone app charges you for every workout you skip and pays you for every one you don't.

Study concludes what potheads have always hoped: Marijuana in moderation won’t damage your lungs.

Have you already given up on your 2012 resolution to finally get fit this year? Here's some of the latest research that might motivate you to crank up your weekly workout. And we like where this is heading: Coffee, chocolate and beer might actually boost athletic performance.

Tactics are key when your line gets tight. A well-planned entry begets a successful exit.

Hailey Duke demonstrates single-leg RDL's as a way to strengthen the posterior chain and hips.

Skiing a spine, with fall -away turns on both sides of it, isn’t easy. But it’s a great way to sharpen your technique.

Harbor chop, Sierra cement, mank, moguls: These are all tough conditions to ski in—the uneven snow and terrain can make minced meat of you—so it’s natural to respond in kind, with brute force. But the flailing arms and gyrating hips that come with it betray a skier absorbing too much impact with his upper body and not enough with his legs. Experts’ upper bodies, on the other hand, remain smooth and steady—like a duck’s above the water’s surface—while their legs and feet do the work of absorbing uneven terrain. Only when you move your feet, ankles, knees and hips through their full athletic ranges of motion can you respond to rough terrain with fluidity and grace.