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08/21/2026

Training in the heat feels harder because it is harder. But understanding why changes how you manage it.

When temperatures rise, your body has two competing priorities. Keep your muscles working and keep your core temperature from climbing too high. Blood gets redirected to the skin to dissipate heat through sweat. That means less blood delivering oxygen to your working muscles. Your heart rate climbs even though your pace hasn’t changed.

Add humidity and that system declines even more. Sweat can’t evaporate efficiently, so the cooling mechanism stalls and core temp rises faster.

The good news is your body can adapt. There are plenty of passive heat adaptation strategies for those who truly want every edge they can get but for the bulk of outdoor athletes, training responsibly in the heat, consistently will be the least time intensive.

The trade off becomes when training quality is sacrificed by the heat itself. Keep efforts within desired ranges to maintain training effects and not dip into overexertion.

Three keys to manage the heat:
- Stay ahead of hydration before you feel thirsty.
- Add sodium, water alone won’t replace what we sweat out.
- And slow down. Your perceived effort is honest in the heat.

Train in the heat to adapt to it, and it can become your biggest advantage.

08/18/2026

Most gyms are built around traditional weights. Although we still use barbells and dumbbells routinely, APL made a different choice.

Keiser’s pneumatic resistance system changes the training experience in ways that matter specifically for mountain athletes. The resistance adapts to the speed of movement and is ultra-precise. Meaning we can train in different velocity thresholds, angles and modalities without the equipment limiting us.

Mass based resistance can’t do that. Mass has inertia, and that inertia creates changes at different velocities, angles and joint angles.For athletes who are already putting serious stress on their bodies outside the gym, we opted for access, function, and specificity.

Additionally, traditional means and methods of power development can be a barrier for a number of reasons. We wanted options.
- The Squat Pro allows us to accurately measure and manage variables like velocity and power, while adapting to brand new users and elite athletes alike.
- The Functional Trainers allow us to train movement in all three planes, at any angle, at any speed.
- The Belt Squat gives us all the same feedback as the Squat Pro without any spinal compression.

We made sure our equipment fits the way mountain athletes need to train.

08/14/2026

Most trail runners have never been taught to read their own fatigue, and the sport makes it harder to read in the moment.

Descending damage and vert-driven load both hide from a training log built on mileage, or even hours.

Eight slides on what to track, what actually separates adaptation from accumulation, and why the basics [fueling and sleep] is the first thing to check rather than the last.

If fueling sounds like your issue, that is worth taking to a sports dietitian rather than sorting out on your own. We work with Kylee Van Horn | Running & Triathlon Dietitian | Run Coach for APL athletes’ needs.

If sleeping sounds like you, sacrifices must be made for the sake of longevity in training.

Scroll to discover whether you’re adapting to your training or digging yourself a hole.

08/04/2026

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07/30/2026

Most athletes undertrain the warm up. They show up, do a few arm circles or hit a brief quad stretch, and wonder why the first few sets feel terrible.

Your body needs to be prepped to train. Every session, every sport, every time.

The APL MVP Warm Up takes ten minutes or less and can be performed anywhere — a corner of the gym, a hotel, a crowded strength room. Skiers, trail runners, climbers, cyclists can all benefit from this warm-up. If you’re about to do dynamic strength work, this is how you get your body ready for it.

Want a print out of this warm-up? Comment WARM-UP and we’ll DM you a link!

Train Better, Perform Higher.

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07/16/2026

If your training isn’t the problem, your recovery might be.

Most endurance athletes are putting in serious hours outside and still leaving adaptation on the table. Not because the work isn’t there, but because the body doesn’t have the raw materials to respond to it.

So we put together the foundational supplement guide we use with the mountain athletes at APL. Protein, creatine, omega-3, magnesium, gut health, and how to personalize from there. Swipe through for the full breakdown.    Train Better, Recover Better, Perform Higher.

06/18/2026

Something hurts. Before you decide to push through or shut it down completely, you have to determine the injured tissue.

Muscle, tendon, and bone don’t fail the same way. They don’t escalate the same way. And they don’t recover the same way.

Getting that wrong is where a two-week problem becomes a four-month one.

Swipe through for the framework on how to know when it needs a little rest or when it needs a doctor.

*This is education, not a diagnosis. Anything sharp, localized, or bone-suspicious gets a professional, not a carousel.

06/04/2026

An undertrained stomach could end your next race or long-effort.

Most runners spend months building their aerobic base and zero time preparing their gut for what race day actually demands. Swipe through to understand why it fails and how to train it before your next race.

Fuel Better, Perform Higher.

05/15/2026

Caught coach Danny and crusher client Larry sharing the trail for about 30 seconds before Larry rode off into his mountain bike race with ACC.

This is what training at APL does, it follows you out the door.

Between ACC races and joining us at trail run club, Larry is training 2x a week in the gym with us this summer while he preps for the Lead Challenge: 5 events, 282 miles, all above 10,000 feet. Trail marathon, a 50 mile MTB, the 100 mile MTB, 10k run, and the 100 mile run. Back to back across a two month span.

With just over a month out from his first Lead Challenge event, we couldn’t be more impressed with the work Larry is putting in.

Up up up!

05/12/2026

We don’t guess. We measure.

Every APL member gets a quarterly performance recheck and a momentum coaching call where we sit down with their force plate data and ask one question: is the training actually pushing the needle?

Since opening, we’ve tracked 19 mountain athletes through full quarterly cycles on countermovement jumps with force plates. 13 metrics every test. Start to finish.

The readout:
• 95% improved jump height (+10% median)
• Braking RFD up 30% (14/19 improved)
• Force at depth up 18% (16/19 improved)
• 15 of 19 shifted braking-dominant
• Faster absorption across the group

Output up. Brakes better. Stronger at depth. Absorption quicker.

That’s not luck — that’s what a well-built block is supposed to leave behind in the data. And it’s why we check in every quarter, not every year.

You can do more. You can take more. You can come back faster.

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826 CO-133 Unit A2
Carbondale, CO
81623

Telephone

+19702376762

Website

http://www.apl.training/

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