Big Bear Blog

All of us at Mountain Fitness Center wish you the best for the coming year and want you to know that your health is our business. We strive to keep up with the latest trends and techniques so we can provide the best workout for your particular goals.

My latest research has uncovered an amazing calorie burning workout system that works for everyone! It’s the Super Scooper 5000 fat burning machine. Statistics show that shoveling snow can burn anywhere from 300 to 500 calories an hour! Many driveways in the Big Bear area are long and some are quite steep. These driveways provide a great workout right outside your door.

You can find these incredible machines at finer hardware or department stores and they come in different shapes and sizes but like most pieces of fitness equipment just owning it doesn’t burn calories. Nor does leaning on it while chatting with next door neighbors doesn’t burn fat. You’ve got to use it to lose it!

Try this simple routine…scoop, throw left…scoop throw right…repeat as necessary. So get out there! Shovel your butts off!…literally!

Spreading the love and the fitness, rev

And ‘They’ were right! I woke up this morning to a couple of feet on the deck, a vision of a few more at resort level and a towering berm at the end of the driveway. First things first: Coffee! Then it was on to shoveling. By 7:00 a.m. I had conquered the berm just enough to get the car out of the driveway. The roads leading to Bear Mountain were a bit interesting in places! Pulling into the parking lot – everyone was smiling: Even as we formed a long queue at the bottom of Chair 9 a half hour early. This storm brought everyone out – Heather & Ted Devito, Daniel Morello and my friends Jen and Levi. 

After lapping it up on Chair 9, it seemed heading to Chair 4 was the right call. The Wedge proved awesome and from there I followed the herd to the bottom of Chair 8. Timing is everything! We were third chair loading 8 and Geronimo looked good. At the top I decided to tag along with Patrol as they checked out a few dicey areas in Deer Canyon. While Patrol doesn’t monitor the Canyon’s they do like to see what’s going on with the snow pack – and I did too. Even in So Cal we need to take heed and be careful in the backcountry!

Earning my turns,
Glade Girl

Happy new decade everybody! 2010 is here and living and playing in the mountains of Big Bear is more fun than ever. I’ve lived here since 1999 and it was more than a pleasure to watch a decade come and go. With all the new events on the mountain, new friends I’ve made and new areas we’ve discovered, the next ten years should be even more exciting than the last. To top it all off I also have a new gig at Mountain Fitness Center helping people prepare themselves for all the skiing, boarding, snowshoeing, kayaking, biking, hiking, golfing, tennis, frisbee and ?

It really seems like our adventure community is growing fast and the general fitness of our population seems to be getting better and more aware of the super fun ways to stay fit and healthy. Once you take that first step toward being more active, the momentum of fun takes over and then you’re hooked. It’s kind of like a good virus that gets into your system and then you are contaminated forever! There’s a crazy sick energy on the mountain right now and it’s contagious, come on up and get infected, but trust me…there is no cure!

Spreading the love & the disease to get fit, Rev