SKIQUATTRO
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Jillian kicked my a$$ for 20 min, cant wait for more punishment tonight 
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Off Season Conditioning
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gmcunni
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me too.. i've come to the conclusion that my current regime of "hoping to lose weight" and "wishing i'd exercise more" isn't producing results.
Me either. My current fascination with cooking isn't helping me either. If I cook it's generally not going to be good for you... My latest was baking Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies last night.... That ended up being dinner for me... Mmmmm...
discipline is tough. I'm still hitting the weights regularly, but have been slacking on cardio. So, plateaued with the weight loss at about 185lbs. Was hoping for 175 by ski season, but probably not going to happen.
yes!
Thought you'd like that one! I tried to make pasta sauce with bacon in it last night, but I screwed it up. My wife ate it, but I think she was just being nice, I couldn't finish it...
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FYI - I have a really cool excel spread sheet for tacking all of the P90x workouts. Shoot me off a PM with your email addy if you want a copy.
severine
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I found myself craving it today. It could be the fact that the house still smells like it, though. Apple cider vinegar has a lingering aroma...
I hear ya! Though it's more cursing than wishing and hoping. Not enough damn hours in the day!BTW, Jillian's 30 Day Shred is an ass-kicker. I had problems with Level 2, though, because it aggravated my knee. A lot of explosive movements/jumping around that in the end, made my knee very unhappy. Still, I got results. In the time that I did it, I lost 10 lbs in about 3 weeks.
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I have a feeling I'm going to head into this ski season a total disaster; some of it beyond my control obviously. Just hoping to be pain-free and not needing to hold back. The cardio/leg strength will come in time, but I'm likely not going to be able to prepare for ski season.
once you are cleared, get a gym membership. Do 3 sets of 5 reps of squats at the highest weight total you can bare. Do it Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Try and increase the weight you are pushing up by 5% each week. Take you ten minutes a session. Squats at high weights is the fastest way to build leg strength and power. You could ride a mountain ten miles a day every day of the week and will not build muscle strength as fast. Your legs will be steel in very little time.
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The thought of squatting weight like that has little appeal to me right now, if ever (I hate gyms). If K-mart delivers and we might actually be skiing in 6 weeks, I'm just not going to have time to condition myself. Gonna just have to do it on the hill.
ya know, I always, ALWAYS, hated lifting weights / going to the gym. I did so in high school for Football because I was forced to. Last six months I've really started to enjoy it. Maybe it's because I was 30 pounds overweight and it feels good to lose some of that weight and feel stronger.
I think running, biking, whatever is great, but resistance training maybe even more important for skiing. I read an article about Phil Mahre making his come back late in life. His training consisted of very little cardio; almost all weights. Only Cardio he did was running sprints as they develop power, which he said was the most important thing for skiing.
We'll see. Maybe all a bunch of BS that I've read and I'll still be dogging like I have for the past seven years on the hill. :lol:
I think running, biking, whatever is great, but resistance training maybe even more important for skiing. I read an article about Phil Mahre making his come back late in life. His training consisted of very little cardio; almost all weights. Only Cardio he did was running sprints as they develop power, which he said was the most important thing for skiing.
We'll see. Maybe all a bunch of BS that I've read and I'll still be dogging like I have for the past seven years on the hill. :lol:
riverc0il
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I can see his point. But cardio is important. And cardio is the best way to loose weight which may have the most impact for gains during ski season. I think core strength is the most important thing to train. It is also the training I do the least of. Rare are the days that I think "I would ski better if I had just lifted more weights..." but I constantly say I could have better technique and stamina if I lost more weight, had better cardio, and had more core muscles built up for the season.
Squats are actually one of the best core workouts you can do. That's the beauty of them; you build leg power and core strength in one exercise.
Sky
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Squats, dead lifts, cleans all work better for you/your core if you consciously engage glutes and core at the start of each exercise. True, they engage to some extrnt regardless....but if you make a point of thinking about it...you'll get more out of the exercise.
Disagree. You lose weight by consuming less calories than you burn. That is all there is to it. Doesn't matter how you burn them. Studies have shown that cardio isn't the best way.
And building muscle burns more calories when you are at rest. Any workout should have a combo.
SKIQUATTRO
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cracked the 175 mark...174.2 this morning....its not rocket science,,,,,burn more calories than you put in and you lose weight (abiet the right type of calories too) and making smart choices...
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