Getting fit for skiing

I ached all over for two days after tuesday and I think I'm quite fit :shock:
my forearms hurt the most which was from going up the draglift about 50 times and hanging on for dear life, whereas mr-a must've been hanging on in a different way because it was his groin that hurt the most.
It's back to yoga for me, I felt that the most important factor on a board was balance. While I was actually boarding I felt like I wasn't using any muscles. I know I must be wrong but that's how it felt.

Caron,
I reckon you must have pretty good balance already. A friend of mine had a week of boarding lessons in Austria, and at the end of the week I don't think she was as good as you, after one day of lessons :thumbup:

I have been doing weight lifting exercises as part of my get fit to ski regime. I've been lifting 2 Kg weights, which I know are pretty light, but I do 20 lifts both arms at a time - arms hanging by my sides to up 90 degrees sideways (like doing star jumps), then the same but lifting in front of me, and then 20 like the weight lifters do over my head, and then 20 like I'm using one of those chest expanders. I find these help with my arm strength. Maybe you should try them?

When I was full time farming I used to be very strong. I used to be able to lift 50 Kg fertiliser sacks to load the spreader, and load and stack a couple of thousand bales of hay in a day, unload a tonne of cow cake and stack it in small 25 kg bags on my own etc. But I've gone pretty weak now.

I haven't tried yoga, but I guess that would be quite good for strength, flexibility, and balance.

Ally

started at the gym last May after suffering really badly with thigh burn on the last ski holiday (nothing to do with the spare tyre honest!) 8 months on and after lots of hard work i've dropped 4 inches off the waist and about 2 stone plus my quads are now much stronger. Off ski-ing in4 weeks so the proof will be in the pudding so to speak. I found that the thigh burn was seriously detracting from my technique so fingers crossed i can concentrate on my technique this time round.

Freezywater,
That's most impressive. Well done :thumbup:

You'll be able to feel quite smug now as you whiz past all the poor people resting in various places on the slope because their legs hurt too much :D

I have to admit I feel quite smug when other people in my ski class are complaining about their legs (or 'les jambes' in my French class) or collapsed in a heap on the snow, and I'm feeling fine. But it is a lot of hard work, getting that fit.

I reckon it's good for me anyway, at my age, to try and keep my weight down and my fitness levels up. But if it wasn't for ski-ing I don't know that I'd bother. It is a very good incentive.

Ally

AllyG wrote:Freezywater,
That's most impressive. Well done :thumbup:

You'll be able to feel quite smug now as you whiz past all the poor people resting in various places on the slope because their legs hurt too much :D

I have to admit I feel quite smug when other people in my ski class are complaining about their legs (or 'les jambes' in my French class) or collapsed in a heap on the snow, and I'm feeling fine. But it is a lot of hard work, getting that fit.

I reckon it's good for me anyway, at my age, to try and keep my weight down and my fitness levels up. But if it wasn't for ski-ing I don't know that I'd bother. It is a very good incentive.

Ally

Thanks Ally, I can do smug very well :wink: I decided that at 35 years young it was about time I did something other than potatoe couching :oops:

So I'm doing a duathlon in May around Silverstone and one of the Chiltern 100 bike rides in June :shock:

You wont ski as fast now you have lost 2 stone )

Freezywater,
How far is the Chiltern bike ride? I used to do quite a bit of biking in my young days. In fact I biked down here when I 'emigrated' from London - 250 miles in 4 days over the Chilterns, Cotswolds, Black Mountains etc., about 60 miles a day, and on my Dad's old bike he had made for himself in about 1950 - a real classic bike.

Ally

Tony_H wrote:You wont ski as fast now you have lost 2 stone )

haha, I had thought of that as it goes :lol: