
How to Administer and Analyze a Heart Rate Drift Test
Heart Rate Drift Test This test has become our go-to test for all our coached athletes. We like it…

Talking Health, Performance, and Longevity, with Jesse Charles, M.D
Scott Johnston is joined by Doctor Jesse Charles, M.D. Jesse is a rural medical doctor and longtime adherent to the…

Nose in a Day in the Time of COVID-19
Our Nose in a Day project wasn’t supposed to take so long. COVID closures, issues with training, the California wildfires—nothing…

Breath Intensity Monitoring Physiology
In this article about the physiology of intensity monitoring, we define terms and explain the underlying metabolic processes that determine…

The Future of Alpinism
Recently I attended the annual Guide’s Festival in Courmayeur, Italy, which is home to the second-oldest guide office in the…

Scott Johnston and the Roots of Uphill Athlete
I got my start in climbing in high school, while growing up in Boulder, Colorado, in the late ’60s and…

Commitment Is Not Discipline
For a very long time I thought I understood athletic discipline. I thought it had a lot to do with…

5 Reasons Why a Strong Core Makes You a Better Ski Mountaineer
The core training that ski mountaineers do should be as functional as possible. Your core is basic to many of…

Roller Ski Training for Skimo Racing
Over the last decade the sport of ski mountaineering racing, or skimo, has seen a dramatic increase in participants, most…