Wholistic Fitness

my dad – who passed away three years ago last week – was a supremely tough German…stubborn as the day is long. if young ilg would so much as begin to utter a complaint or whimper about doing yet another one of his regularly assigned 10,000 chores for me? he’d immediately interrupt my balking tendency to roar (while usually throwing something he had in his one good hand), “Oh for CHRISTS SAKES!!!…FORGET IT…I’LL DO IT MYSELF!!!! Why don’t you just go inside and cut out paper dolls with your mother!?!?”

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FREAKIN’ AWESOME 65 mile Club Ride (Cherry Creek) with 14 miles of dirt! rode the last 22 miles with a broken spoke; way to hold up my precious ROLF wheels! we hit the final roller at 33mph! you kiddin’ me!?!?! soooo beautiful! Sacred Sweat, baby! ilg was stoked to finish with the whittled down by attrition lead group of 5! thank you WHOLISTIC FITNESS®!! immediately transitioned not into rest, no, no, no…had to step up into the endlessly energetic demands of being a Conscious Daddy to a 5 year-old…not feeling too much like

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Phew…after 37-miles and 2k of climbing, i attacked our lead group at 800 meters to go into a headwind then (once again) used HP Yoga Prop Workout core strength to kick again like a half dead trout to take the final sprint by half a wheel over my…

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some of the creatures were stirring…
…others were not…

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“It was a genuine please having Steve Ilg in my {spin} class today. I became aware of Steve in 1988, when our Outdoor Adventures staff used his book, The Outdoor Athlete, for sport specific training. It was even more exciting to have such an endorsement of my spin class instruction. Many thanks Steve! I look forward to Saturday.” – Scot Davis,

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for WF.com Members ONLY here is my choreography of what we did…you can mimic a similar class on your own, using it. note that in reverse direction (what else is new about ilg, right?) i hammered the students with 20+ minutes of wholistic core work in the style of HP Yoga® BEFORE spinning to pre-fatigue the core and THEN superimpose the 60-minute high intensity SPIN! this is old-school WF philosophy, and, trust me; it worked as well this morning as it did over 30 years ago!

here you go:

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Brotha’s y’ Sista’s!
Though it runs against my “America’s Outdoor Athlete*” reputation, spiritual lineage, and my inner tendencies to spin indoors (which, BTW, is precisely why God created nordic ski racing!), feeble ilg is attempting to hold down the fort for our most preciously sweet and huge-of-lung and fleet-of-foot Swede, Marisa Asplund, this Saturday morning at 8:15am for her amazing 90-minute spin/core workout at the Durango Rec Center.

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“Every time we step into the gym we strengthen more than mere flesh…we strengthen our our mental focus, emotional intelligence, our dreams, and our spirit.”
– coach steve, THE WINTER ATHLETE (1999, Johnson Books).

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