Archive for the ‘exercise’ Category
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Ski-Specific Exercises to Help Build the Right Muscles
Almost every skier – minus the truly devout – have to deal with the inevitability that living on a planet with a tilted axis brings: changing seasons. Even if you live further from the Equator than most, there’s a good chance that once spring and summer roll around, you’re left wondering where all of the [...]
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What Do Bodybuilders Think About Alpine Skiing?
When you think about bodybuilding, the first phrase that pops into your head probably isn’t “Alpine skiing.” You would be surprised at the kind of exercise benefits you can get from an endurance-testing, core-strengthening sport like downhill skiing. But does that mean that downhill skiing is a good idea for body-builders, or would they want [...]
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The Skier’s Body: Five Tips for Better Skiing
We’re familiar with the body-types of many top athletes: we know that swimmers tend to be tall, muscular, and lean like Michael Phelps, and that cyclists tend to be smaller, strong-legged people like Lance Armstrong. But when you see skiers on television, you don’t really see what their body looks like. So it’s understandable if [...]
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Skiing vs. Hiking: To Go Down the Hill, or Up It?
The classic question of summer sports against winter sports is probably a question that will never totally be answered, but it can be narrowed down: when it comes to getting some exercise in the great outdoors, are you an uphill kind of person, or a downhill type of person? That simple question doesn’t address all [...]
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How to Fuel Your Body for Skiing
If you plan on spending most of your day skiing – particularly when you’re on a skiing trip – it can be easy to forget to keep yourself fueled. After all, skiing can be exhilarating and fun, and somewhere in there we don’t remember that we’re exercising. When you’re burning more calories than usual, you [...]
