The NuStep TRS 4000 Recumbent Cross Trainer is part of High-Powered Mt. Everest Training Program
Veteran mountain climber, Lynn Prebble, used the NuStep TRS 4000 as part of an intensive training program for a climb of Mt. Everest.
Prebble
was a member of Ford Motor Company's 2002 "No Boundaries All American
Expedition" - the first all-American, all-woman mountain climbing
team to attempt to summit Everest.
NuStep Part of Regimen
To prepare for the biggest climb of her life,
Prebble designed a high-powered exercise program that included workouts
three times a week on the NuStep TRS 4000, high-altitude runs, snowshoeing
up mountain peaks in the winter, and hikes carrying a backpack that
was weighted to 50 percent of her body weight. Her NuStep regiment was
one-hour of stepping at level 10, three times per week.
A physical therapist for 28 years, Prebble is the director of physical
therapy at Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. She began mountain
climbing in 1990, and has climbed more than 300 mountains, including
Cho Oyu (26,905 feet) on the border between Tibet and Nepal, Mt. Blanc
in France (15,800 feet and the highest mountain in Western Europe), Grand
Teton in Wyoming (13,771 feet), and the Matterhorn in Switzerland (14,691
feet). She has climbed more than 300 Colorado mountains 13,000 feet and
higher. "The best training is to train by doing," says Prebble. "But
that is not always possible or practical. The NuStep supported my love
of climbing because it allowed me to get efficient, intense aerobic exercise
using a stepping motion."
Prebble and her "No Boundaries" teammates successfully reached
the south peak of Everest at 28,750 feet. They were turned away 285 feet
from the north summit of Mt. Everest due to bad weather. She says that
the experience was exhilarating, and she expects to make another go at
it. "When I saw the foot prints going to the north summit, I knew
that I had properly trained for this expedition. I felt great and strong."
Reaching Our Everest
"Climbing is my avocation. I love it. But
whatever your personal Everest is, my experience proved to me that our
goals are achievable with planning, preparation, persistence and concentration." |
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