Archive for the ‘ski basics’ Category
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How to Fix Your Skiing Form
At some point during your introduction to skiing, you notice that your muscles adapt, your core gets stronger, and you no longer get sore after a good long day of skiing. But if you continue to have pains or soreness in areas that might not even include your muscles, you might want to think [...]
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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 [...]
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How to Get Ready for the Skiing Season
With the winter months rolling around and the northern hemisphere once again retreating away from the sun, skiing and snowboarding fanatics are getting excited: ski season is ready to begin again. For the avid skiing junkie, the skiing season is year-round as they chase the best places on Earth, but for the local [...]
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Why Do People Ski?
Let’s face it, there are a lot of hobbies out there that not everyone understands. There’s such an infinite variety that it would be impossible to list them all here, except to give a brief outline of some particular hobbies people enjoy: cricket, scrabble, hiking. But if you’ve ever looked at a [...]
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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 [...]
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What Type of Skier are You?
If you are into skiing then you should know what type of skier that you are. This is an important question because ski resorts label their slopes accordingly. Are you a beginner, an advanced skier, an expert, or the extreme skier? You might not think that it really matters but it does so that when [...]
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What Is Alpine Skiing (And How Do I Do It?)
What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “Alpine skiing?” Do you see flashes of the French and Swiss Alps, with professional skiers nearly falling down the slopes of mountains at near-suicidal angles?
Well, you’re not too far off (though you might be thinking a little too dangerously about it), as Alpine skiing – [...] -
How to Know When You Have a Bad Skiing Instructor
For many skiing novices, the decision to let a ski instructor help you out with your technique is a no-brainer. It’s always good to have someone evaluate your talent and hone your skill so that you’re better prepared to handle the slopes. But that doesn’t mean every skiing instructor will be ideal for [...]
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To Ski or Not to Ski (Downhill)
Many of us, when we hear the word “ski,” simply imagine a type of skiing that is known as Alpine skiing. Alpine skiing refers to downhill skiing, the kind of skiing you undertake when going to a ski hill, not the type of skiing that occurs on flat environments like flat winter-land or even [...]
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5 Tips to Take Your Child Skiing
While skiing is one of the most enjoyable experiences there is, it can also be fairly dangerous. So what do you do when you go to the ski resort with your family and you have a child? Well, you have more options than you think as there are plenty of things to do [...]
