TRAINING PROGRAMS
Train for Mountain Goals, Outdoor Performance, and Lasting Fitness
Casaval offers clear, progressive 12-week programs for major mountain objectives, better performance in the activities you love, and a stronger foundation of endurance, strength, and fitness. Programs are available for beginner, returning, intermediate, and advanced athletes.
To begin, choose and purchase your coaching level. After signing up, you’ll complete a short training questionnaire where you can select the program you want or tell me what you’re preparing for. I’ll then recommend or confirm the program that best matches your goals, experience, schedule, and available equipment.
EXPLORE THE PROGRAMS
A Training Program for Every Goal and Starting Point
These programs provide clear starting points for different objectives, activities, and training needs. Explore any program to learn more about its focus and weekly structure.
You can select your program after you sign up for coaching. Once you sign up, you’ll receive a training questionnaire that helps determine the right program and starting point based on your goals, current fitness, experience, schedule, and available equipment. You can choose the program you want or leave it to me to apply the best fit based on your questionnaire.
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Mountaineering Training
Prepare for major climbs and long summit days with progressive aerobic training, strength work, uphill conditioning, and loaded movement. Build the fitness and durability to move efficiently for hours over steep mountain terrain.
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Hiking & Backpacking
Build hiking strength, uphill endurance, and durability for day hikes, backpacking trips, and consecutive days on the trail. Designed for beginner and intermediate hikers who want a manageable and progressive training schedule.
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Backcountry Skiing & Splitboarding
Prepare for ski season and improve your ability to climb, descend, and repeat long days in the backcountry. Training develops aerobic fitness, leg strength, uphill efficiency, and durability.
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Ski Mountaineering
Prepare for bigger ski objectives that combine sustained uphill travel, mountaineering, and demanding descents. Training emphasizes aerobic capacity, uphill endurance, muscular endurance, and durability for long mountain days and expeditions.
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Trail & Mountain Running
Develop running durability, aerobic capacity, climbing strength, and fatigue resistance for trails, mountain routes, and longer events.
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Mountain Endurance
Build the aerobic base, strength, uphill capacity, and muscular endurance that support nearly every mountain sport. This flexible base program prepares you for future sport-specific training or stronger year-round performance in the mountains.
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Outdoor Strength & Fitness
Establish a sustainable fitness routine with short strength and movement sessions, aerobic training, and a flexible outdoor workout. Designed for beginner and returning athletes who want to feel stronger and more capable outside.
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Strength & Conditioning
Build full-body strength, improve conditioning, and support body-composition or general fitness goals. Training can range from three short weekly strength sessions to a more complete strength and aerobic schedule.
“From struggling to do ten squats at the start to feeling genuinely strong on the mountain, this program completely changed my body and my confidence. Dane adapted the training when my knee flared up, and thanks to that, I made it to the summit injury-free.”
Joanna Oseman
ATHLETE SUCCESS
START TRAINING
Start Training With the Right Level of Support
You can choose a program after you sign up. Start by selecting the level of coaching and support you want. After enrolling, you’ll complete your training questionnaire, choose a program or ask me to recommend the best fit, and confirm your start date.
Coaching starts at $149 per month with a 12-week commitment.