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Personal Adventure Training

Contact Dr. Jon

Take the Guesswork Out of Training for Your Next Adventure

Are you wanting to train for a new adventure but not sure how to get started?

We have decades of experience preparing for long adventures, such as summiting 8000m peaks, ski mountaineering, ultra marathoning, thru hiking, Ironman triathlons, double century rides, and more. We will design a program that minimizes your planning time, and through periodic check-ins helps keep you accountable and motivated.


Meet the coaches at Dr. Jon's Adventures!


Why Choose Dr. Jon's Adventures as Your Training Partner?

Because we will be just that, your partner in training. You won't be receiving a generic fitness training plan.  We partner with you to develop short and long-term training plans that help you prepare for your goals and work for your unique situation.  


What you'll get from us is a personal training program with a high attention to detail on all aspects of fitness including aerobic conditioning, muscular endurance exercises, strength training, flexibility, mental preparation, recovery, nutrition, and hydration.  All these factors are built into the custom endurance training we provide.


Features of Our Personal Adventure Training Program

While there are many "cookie cutter" type training programs available online, most of the time these programs don't fit your lifestyle, schedule, goals, or current fitness, and are for a specific time period (such as 8 weeks).  What we offer is a totally customized experience:

  • Carefully crafted daily fitness plans for your fitness and adventure goals and preferences.
  • Phone, email, and video support (and depending on the plan purchased, these can be unlimited).
  • Unlimited program duration; we customize a  plan and develop a progressive program for however far away your adventure goal is, building in Transition, Base, Build, Specific, and Taper cycles.
  • Frequent customized fitness tests that allow you to see the progress you are making.
  • A training plan fit to your schedule, your lifestyle, your equipment, your workout preferences. For example, if you dislike or can't run, we won't force you to run in training.
  • A holistic approach that incorporates flexibility, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, strength, nutrition, hydration, metabolic efficiency (ability to go faster using less energy), and recovery.  
  • Mental strategies to stay motivated and overcome fear of failure.
  • Regular check-ins to ensure the training is at the right level of difficulty and to see how you are adapting to the training.


We follow well-researched, scientific training principles in all our plans.


Workouts Delivered Through An App

We use a 3rd party phone app to deliver the workouts to you on a daily basis, providing you all the information you will need to complete the workout.  Of course, if you have questions, you are always welcome to contact us for clarification. 

Hiking, Training, Expeditions, High Altitude, Acclimatization

On an acclimatization hike while training for bigger peaks.

How to Get Started Training With Us

Kilimanjaro, Summit, Seven Summits

Step 1: Set an Audacious Goal for Yourself

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Audacious is relative to you and your situation.  For some an audacious goal might be to climb Mt. Everest, for others it might be to climb a 14,000 ft mountain, or it may be to prepare for a multi-day backpacking adventure, a marathon, or a long biking event.  

Norway, Adventure

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Even if you haven't picked a goal yet, contact us for a free initial 30 minute consult. Also please complete this form:  Onboarding Form. We can help you decide on a goal that's challenging but achievable for you. During this consult, we'll ask questions about your endurance training background, your daily schedule, what equipment and out

Even if you haven't picked a goal yet, contact us for a free initial 30 minute consult. Also please complete this form:  Onboarding Form. We can help you decide on a goal that's challenging but achievable for you. During this consult, we'll ask questions about your endurance training background, your daily schedule, what equipment and outdoor terrain you have access to, and your training preferences.

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Climbing Adventures, Colorado 14ers, Personal Adventure Training

Step 3: Try Out the First Week Free

Step 2: Contact Dr. Jon's Adventures for a Free Initial Consult

Step 4: Continue Following the Training Plan

We'll make a detailed daily training program for the first week based on the initial consult.  If after 1 week you are not happy with the program, you owe us nothing.  With this  endurance training program, you will get tips on nutrition, recovery, and training intensities, and it will also include a couple days of baseline fitness tests.

Wind River Range, Backpacking, Wyoming

Step 4: Continue Following the Training Plan

Step 4: Continue Following the Training Plan

Step 4: Continue Following the Training Plan

Month-after-month, you will see your fitness progress based on your times and how you feel in monthly testing sessions.  You will have access to phone, email, and video consults with us on the frequency that your training plan allows.

Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal

Step 5: Crush Your Personal Adventure Goal

Step 4: Continue Following the Training Plan

Step 5: Crush Your Personal Adventure Goal

Go into your personal adventure goal event with confidence knowing you are well-prepared physically and mentally to have an amazing time!

Endurance Training Principles

At Dr. Jon's Adventures, we apply the following high level principles to properly train you for your next event.  Questions?  Please get in touch with us.  Interested in training with us?  Check out details on our custom Monthly Endurance Training Packages below.

We start with when your goal event is happening, and then work backwards in creating a long-term plan that allows you to progress through the phases of training.  This is oftentimes referred to as the "Annual Training Plan".  


With endurance training, we cannot increase the duration, distance, and intensity forever.  That's where the Annual Training Plan is helpful.  There are certain types of training and workouts you want to do at specific times in the training cycle related to when your primary goal event takes place.


When looking at training on an annual basis, each year can be split into periods and the type of training you do each period can vary. The names used for these periods in the fitness and endurance industry can vary, but in general they are:

  1. Preparatory Period (some call it the offseason)
  2. Preseason Period 
  3. Competitive Period 
  4. Postseason Period (after the goal event)

In general, as you go through the phases, your training shifts from general fitness to more specific fitness related to your goal event.  The concept is starting with simpler skills and workouts and progressing to more complex ones. 


We're not talking about politics here.  We are talking about gradually increasing the training intensity to progress your fitness.  This can be done in many ways by doing any of the following over several weeks or months:

  • Increase the number of weekly training sessions
  • Add more exercises, reps, or weight to a strength training session
  • Increase the duration of an aerobic workout
  • Increase the intensity (effort / heart rate) at which a workout is completed.

Progression over time should also account for what stage of training an athlete is in (offseason, preseason, in-season, peaking for a big goal event, etc).  Also, to avoid overtraining and overuse injuries, a training program cannot continue progressing in a linear fashion forever. 


Progression is implemented in more of a stair step approach:  increase workout intensity / duration for a couple weeks in a row, then cut back for a week to recover and allow for overcompensation.  At a certain point, duration and frequency cannot increase anymore but intensity / effort can still increase. The general rule of thumb is to not increase intensity, frequency, or duration of training more than 10% from week to week.  


When you first begin training, your workouts should be more general and then as you get closer to the big event, the workouts become more specific.  It's like building a house.  You can't install the cabinets or flooring (specific) until you've poured the foundation and built the frame (general).


In training for endurance adventures, in the early stages of training we focus on building general strength, aerobic endurance, and flexibility.  For mountain climbers, you can build that aerobic endurance many ways:  running, cycling, swimming, skiing, hiking, etc.


Once that foundation is laid (over a period of months), then we transition to more specific training.  This means focusing on the specific muscles, movement patterns, gear, nutrition, and conditions you'll be using and experiencing during your goal adventure.  We do more training sessions that are simulations of the big event (just not the same duration or intensity).


Overload means training at an intensity, duration, or frequency that your body is not accustomed to.  This principle can apply to training for many different sports and in the weight room.  It's a staple of endurance training programs and why an an athlete training for a marathon can go from a long run of 6 miles early in a training program to 20 miles a few months later.


Without an overload stimulus, it will be difficult to see improvement in athletic performance.  Going back to the marathoner example, if all you do is a 6 mile long run each week, you will get really good at running 6 miles but will not be prepared for 26 miles.


Placing greater demands on the exercising musculature leads the body to overcompensate and adapt to the new training stress in many systems including neural, cardiovascular, muskoskeletal, endocrine, and respiratory.


Overload can lead to a short-term decrement in performance, but when an overload workout is followed by a brief recovery period of days or a week, will lead to supercompensation and improvement in performance.  However, you have to be careful with this and allow adequate recovery or you will increase your risk of overtraining.  


"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."


Ben Franklin

Custom Monthly Training Plans

Basic

Advanced

Advanced

Colorado Hut Trips, Mountaineering, High Altitude Training, Colorado 14ers

  • Free initial phone consultation
  • Custom endurance training plan, delivered via an app and designed around YOUR lifestyle and circumstances
  • Unlimited email correspondence
  • Free Dr. Jon's Adventures trucker hat

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Volcanoes, Mountaineering, High Altitude Training

  • Free initial phone consultation
  • Custom endurance training plan, delivered via an app and designed around YOUR lifestyle and circumstances
  • Gear and travel logistics advice
  • Mental training techniques
  • Unlimited email correspondence
  • Two hours per month of phone / text / video support
  • Free copy of one of Dr. Jon's books
  • For a discounted fee, optional onsite mountaineering training with Dr. Jon in Colorado.
  • Free Dr. Jon's Adventures trucker hat and hoodie

Contact Us to Inquire about prices

"What is within you is stronger than what's in your way."


Erik Weihenmayer

Mountaineering Courses with Dr. Jon

Mountaineer training

Live One-on-One Training

We also offer in-person, one-on-one mountaineer training courses with Dr. Jon, customized to your fitness, goals, and needs. Come spend a day or two with him in beautiful Vail, CO where he will teach you the skills you need and answer all your questions.  This can include:

  • Beginner climbing and rappeling skills with ropes/harness
  • Interval training in the mountains
  • Winter camping 
  • Backcountry skiing
  • Specific balance and strength training exercises
  • And more.....


Mountaineering Course Info

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