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asked to provide this. The idea is to give
employees something in exchange and to
keep them motivated”. The training ses-
sions are carried out regularly in groups
and this is increasing team spirit. After all,
the participants want to remain “active” for
a very long time.
Impressive performance in all
types of weather conditions
As Hans Dorner, managing director of the
ALPINE Group shows, it is not necessary
to be born with the vocation of becoming
an ambitious athlete or to undergo rigorous
training from childhood. He did not discover
the pleasure of resistance sports until he
was 30 years old and started to do some
exercise by bicycling after work. After a de-
cade, the list of competitions in which he
has participated is quite impressive: a total
of four triathlons, two marathons, and more
than 40 mountain bike marathons. Hans
Dorner also participates in the “Mountain-
Attack” cross-country skiing race know for
its difficulty that requires the highest level
of resistance from those who participate
in this sport. “For me, sports is the ideal
counterweight to my work”, Dorner, who
does follow a fixed training plan, explained.
“I train more before competitions but the-
re are also periods that are more relaxed
and I do less exercise”. Regardless of the
weather conditions and in all seasons, there
are always training modules since compe-
titions also take part in places with extreme
temperature conditions, either hot or cold.
Dorner succeeded in the triathlon in Lan-
zarote (Canary Islands) in 2012. “With the
temperature at 30 degrees centigrade and
wind, the bicycle circuit was particularly
difficult”, this native of the region of Estiria
and father of two sons, said. In Lanzarote,
he was just a few minutes short of classi-
fying for the Ironman in Hawaii.
A 12,000 metre climb in an Alpine
landscape
The situation is similar (although not that
extreme) in the case of Kurt Müller, from
ALPINE ARGE’s accounting department.
During his summer holidays, he crossed
the Alps from north to south in his moun-
tain bicycle. He travelled through impressi-
Medical check up at the start of the “PRO Fit” program .