Alpine
Touring
Strength
For the Skin Track.
Alpine Touring is built around the real demands of the uphill. Eight structured phases, progressive uphill cardio, and touring-specific strength work to carry you up the skin track and still ski well on the way down.
Every Phase.
Alpine Touring follows the NASM Optimum Performance Training framework through four progressive phases before the season starts: stabilization, strength endurance, heavy slow resistance, and uphill performance. Each phase carries its own tempo prescription, and each one earns the next. An uphill fitness test in week one and again in week sixteen shows you what the work built.
Skin Track.
Every session is designed around what touring asks of you. Thousands of strides on the skin track, balance through every kick turn, a pack on your back for hours, and enough left in your legs for the ski down. Cardio is an equal partner, with rucking, uphill intervals, and long days that build toward full tours.
in Your Corner.
You'll have a dedicated Certified Personal Trainer from day one. Message them through the OAT Fit App about modifications, progression, or gear. Knees that ache on long descents, a phase that needs shifting around a hut trip, a week you had to miss. We draw on our own time in the backcountry to help you move toward your goals with confidence.
Train Alone.
OAT is built around a supportive community of like-minded people who love spending time outside. You'll have monthly Zoom meetings, the in-app message board, and a network of skiers around the world. Share your progress, your tours, and your stoke with a crew that loves the skin track as much as you do.
What's New for the 2026 Season.
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Real People. Real Adventures.
7-Day Free Trial
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Best if you want to try the program before committing long-term. Includes the full 28-week periodized progression.
- Full 28-week periodized progression
- 1:1 messaging with your dedicated trainer
- Community access + monthly Zoom sessions
- On-demand library of 41+ mobility routines
7 days free · Then $33/month · Cancel anytime
One-time payment. 3 months of full access.
Covers the first 3 months of the program. Great if you have a trip or objective coming up soon.
- First 3 phases of training
- 1:1 messaging with your dedicated trainer
- Community access + monthly Zoom sessions
- On-demand library of 41+ mobility routines
7 days free · Then $85 one-time · Full 3-month access
One-time payment. 6 months of full access.
Enough time to complete the full 28-week program. The best value if you're committed to doing the work.
- Full 8-phase periodized progression
- 1:1 messaging with your dedicated trainer
- Community access + monthly Zoom sessions
- On-demand library of 41+ mobility routines
7 days free · Then $149 one-time · Full 6-month access
All memberships include the same program, the same coaching, and the same community.
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A Program That Builds on Itself.
Eight phases across 28 weeks. Every phase has a purpose. Every week builds on the last.
Stabilization
Neuromuscular patterning, single-leg control, and joint stability built from the ground up. Cardio starts with Zone 2 aerobic base building and a week-one uphill fitness test that sets your baseline. The goal of this phase is to prime the body for everything ahead of it.
Strength Endurance
Load enters the program, the tempo picks up, and the sets get long. Cardio grows to three days a week with a weighted ruck, uphill progression sessions, and long days that build toward three to four hours. This is where your legs build the stamina for long skin tracks.
Heavy Strength
Three heavy resistance sessions a week, each with a distinct emphasis, loaded slowly and deliberately. Stronger legs spend less effort on every step, so your touring pace gets easier. Threshold climbs and four-hour days keep the engine building alongside it.
Uphill Performance
The heavy weights come off. Bounds, jumps, and powerful step-ups turn your strength into a quicker, more efficient stride, alongside hard hill repeats and steep weighted carries. It finishes with your uphill fitness retest, so you see exactly what the build produced.
De-Load
A scheduled reset. Lighter activity that maintains the base while lowering joint and muscle stress. Recovery isn't bonus time off. It's part of how the body absorbs the work you've put in.
Storm Cycle 01
The weekly calendar shifts here. You're touring now, so the gym work reorganizes around your days on the skin track instead of competing with them, and your tours become the long days.
De-Load
A second scheduled reset, mid-season. Enhance circulation, aid recovery, and keep things flowing so the body can absorb what the early season has asked of it.
Corn Cycle 01
Six weeks, the longest block in the program. Spring corn, volcano season, and the big objectives. Heavy strength returns at maintenance volume so your legs stay strong all the way through spring, and the final week tapers into your objective.
Cardio and Mobility
Never Stop.
These aren't separate sessions bolted onto the resistance work. Cardio is an equal partner in Alpine Touring, progressing from Zone 2 base building to uphill intervals and four-hour days, and mobility follows every cardio session as recovery support. The full mobility library is yours at all times.
Endorsed by
Sports Medicine.
“The Alpine Touring Program represents a state-of-the-art dryland preparatory plan developed in an evidence-based, scientific manner utilizing the latest medical research to enhance alpine performance.”
OAT Medical Advisor
Train on the OAT Fit App.
Your full program, coaching, and community, all in one place. Available on iOS, Android, and desktop.
Every session includes full coaching cues and detailed video instruction so you always know exactly how each movement should look and feel.
See your program up to two weeks in advance from your calendar. Drag and drop sessions to fit your schedule without losing momentum in the program.
Train from your phone, tablet or desktop from anywhere in the world. Your program is always available when you need it.
Before You Skin Up.
Seven days of full access to the program, the app, and your trainer. Nothing is held back and there's no limited version. If it isn't the right fit, cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged.
You can train the whole program in a garage or a spare room, plus a hill or stairs for the uphill work. Here's what's required:
- Dumbbells or kettlebells you can progress with. This is the one that matters. The Heavy Strength phase loads heavy and slow at a 3/0/3 tempo, so a single light pair will not get you through the entirety of the program. Adjustable dumbbells or several fixed pairs give you the room to keep progressing.
- A backpack you can load. Rucking builds to 20 to 25% of your body weight. Water jugs or bottles make easy, adjustable weight, and you can pour them out at the top to spare your knees on the way down.
- Two step-up surfaces. A 3 to 8 inch step for step-downs, beginner step-ups, split squats and lunges, and a 12 to 18 inch box or bench for full step-ups and strength progression.
- Resistance bands and mini resistance bands for activation, stability, and mobility work.
- A yoga mat for floor and core work.
- A foam roller and a lacrosse or massage ball for the mobility routines.
- Supportive training shoes.
- Heart rate monitor, chest strap or watch. Every session also works by feel and the talk test.
- Trekking poles for long days
- Bosu ball, for balance and stability work
- Stability ball
A commercial gym covers the strength work, and a stair climber or incline treadmill covers the uphill.
Powder Prep trains you for the way down: resort days, powder, and steeps. Alpine Touring trains the climb. Cardio is an equal partner, with rucking, uphill intervals, and long days that build toward full tours, and the build peaks with an uphill performance phase instead of pure power.
Plenty of members do both. If you've just finished Powder Prep, you can skip Stabilization and start at Strength Endurance. Message your trainer and they'll set it up.
About six months before your biggest objective or the heart of your touring season. Starting in fall puts the build phases before the snow arrives, with the uphill fitness retest at the end of week 16, Storm Cycle through midwinter, and Corn Cycle carrying you through spring.
Starting later still works. The build phases carry you forward from wherever you are, and your trainer can compress or reorder blocks around your trip.
No. Every strength session is designed for a gym or a home setup, and every cardio session includes flatland options: stairs, an incline treadmill, a stair climber, a bike, or the road outside.
The in-season phases assume you're touring, but they flex around however often that actually is.
The progression is built to meet you where you are. Stabilization starts with movement quality and bodyweight patterning before any real load enters, and cardio starts in Zone 2, so there's an on-ramp regardless of where you're beginning.
From there, your trainer adjusts loading, volume, and exercise selection based on what you report back. Every movement has regressions and progressions built in.
Everything lives in the OAT Fit app, on iOS, Android, or any browser. Your calendar tells you what's on for the day, every exercise has video instruction, and sessions come with a built-in timer plus a full follow-along option.
You get a dedicated Certified Personal Trainer from day one, reachable directly in the app. Not a chatbot, not a shared inbox.
Message them about modifications, form, a knee that aches on long descents, shifting a phase around a hut trip, or gear questions. It's the same person all the way through, so they know your history.
Nothing breaks. Pick up where you left off, or message your trainer and they'll adjust the calendar so you don't lose the thread of the progression.
The program is built for people with jobs, families, and travel. Consistency over months matters far more than any single week.
You finish Corn Cycle in far better shape than you started, and that becomes the base you build from next fall rather than starting over.
Plenty of members move to another OAT program for summer, then return to Alpine Touring or Powder Prep when the days shorten.
Yes. Cancel any time in the seven days and you won't be charged. No forms, no phone call, no retention pitch.
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