Wholistic Fitness

There is a saying…”Judge not a Teacher save by the nobility of his or her Students…” Ready to be inspired once again by one of your fellow Wholistic Fitness™ Warriors? Maybe next February, YOU could do what it takes to yogi squat on the summit of this Sacred Pilgrimage of Wholistic Fitness™…. WF Shishya PY halfway through her recent solo 75-kilometer, 4-sport Sacred Pilgrimage at the one and only; Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon…here is her own Race Report…buckle up! photo courtesy of Julie “PY” Mueller. Coming up next; my own Race Report!

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(all access) Flash Race Report: coach and dana defend Mixed Pairs at Mt. Taylor…by only 4 minutes in a see-saw Battle of Spirits, Wind, and Guts!

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I’m here in Grants, New Mexico…at the base of the Sacred Peak of the Diné; Tsoodził …it’s the night before i attempt to defend my Mixed Pairs title…

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One of my most Precious Shishya’s; PY from Kinlani, AZ who has such Trust in feeble ilg as her Teacher, she will toe the Start Line of the 75-kilometer, 4-sport Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon this Saturday…without even ever having nordic skied before in her life! See my Interview with this inspirational Doctor of Statistics and Daughter of Shiva below. Now…how Brave are YOU willing to be along YOUR Wholistic Fitness™ Journey? Spots available for the two other Sacred WF Pilgrimages: IRON HORSE BICYCLE CLASSIC on Memorial Day or the IMOGENE PASS RACE the second weekend of May. See you on the Start Line, Most Noble Multi-Disciplined Yogi!

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“In that moment I was in another cave — filled with Powder. Then I died and was resurrected back in the cave of champions — collapsing, and very humbled. And what was that final pose that Ilg showed us? He was levitating!”

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as he’s done from the Beginning, Coach takes aim at the conventional fitness world’s latest notions of Warming Up and provides his Tribe with the cOMmon sense of proven wholeness. Here is Part One of his Wholistic Fitness™ Warm Up Protocol for endurance athletes which optimizes pranic, mental, and physical environments. Endurance athletes following his Warm Up Protocol will find greater power production via neuromuscular function and decrease the rate of lactate concentration while increasing the rate of lactate removal. photo of coach in northern Arizona by Ananda.

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“Coach Steve Ilg raced the first year’s event some time ago with snowshoes even though there was no snow — now that’s courage. Try it sometime. He was the cheerleader encouraging snowshoe racing at the Nordic Center, and the race gives him his credit for leading the way.” – Snowshoe Magazine

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i received SOOOOO much more than the admittedly high effort i put in to produce Durango’s first annual snowshoe race, the Winter Warrior 10k which took place today under the most unbelievably, jaw-dropping, sattvic conditions any new Race Director could have dreamed.

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