The 08 / 09 Workout thread

[Sky]

So who's started getting in shape for skiing? I know some of you have alternate sports (Mountain biking etc).

I'm talking the wall-sits, lunges, running (sprints etc), weights?

I started Monday. I tried starting a couple of weeks ago...at a hotel gym...but subsequent travel and more work just caused a false-start.

So Monday...still with too much going on @ work, I noticed it was 12:45 when I finally looked at a clock. Plans to run @ lunch fizzled. I just did a quick set of weights and stretches and more weights @ home before bed.

Tuesday I was back on the basketball court @ lunch, then some light weights before showering.

Today I ran 2 miles, then other weight work.

Tomorrow will probably be hoops again.

I've got till next week to get into good enough shape to start the program with a co-worker. He's a rugby coach, PhD Anthropologist, and full time work-out enthusiast. We refer to his program as the "Space Program"...(long story).

Two years ago (cuz I was way too busy last fall to do the program) we did one legged hops, then broad jumps around the ball-field's infield...then some other crazy stuff. Alternate days were running (100 M sprints, 400 M runs, etc...with "throwing a medicine ball over your head, the guy behind you lets it settle, you (after throwing it) run behind him to "settle" his throw...repeat the length of a football field). Yes, we looked like the three stooges I'm sure.

Anyway, that's sort of what I'll be doing for the next 10 weeks or so.

How about you?

 

[deadheadskier]

....got going about 6 weeks ago. I'm not as disciplined as I'd like, but I'm doing better than I ever have in the past 10 years.

My routine is pretty much rowing machine, push ups and sit ups. I've been trying to get up extra early and hit the rower, which I have done pretty much 4 days a week. I'm up to 50-75ish push ups and 50-75ish ab rolls prior to getting on the erg. Starting to show some signs of improvement. I've lost ten pounds.

I still slack more than I want though. I need to be doing this routine 6 days a week, not 3-4. I've been out of shape going into season since high school. I really want to be literally as solid as I can possibly be for this year.

....gets tough though. tomorrow I have to be at a meeting for work 2.5 hours away at 8:45. There's a limit to how early I can get up and get cracking on getting in shape.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

surfing, lots and lots of couch surfing...some playing horsey with my 3yr old...that's about it. its worked out the last five seasons...

 

[drjeff]

I've had to cut back on my "impact" cardio stuff basically alll summer due to nagging and various injuries. As someone who really enjoys running outdoors, this has been tough. Basically, I've gone through bouts of shin splints in both legs on seperate occasions, and then in between the shin splints, I managed to pull the muscles around my left hip responsible associated with the extension movements of your leg.

As a result, I basically haven't been able to run any decent mileage and/or with any regularity all summer long. I have been substituting some recumbant stationary biking, inclined treadmill walking and regular use of my Skier's edge for conditioning. Not the same as running though, especially this time of the year since usually in about 2 weeks I run a half marathon so this time of year for me is typically filled with 30 to 40 miles a week of running, and it's not this year.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Swimming for cardio and toning, stretching for some flex, I do a lifting program that is more focused on lower body including hips, lotsa leg presses at various weights, and occasionally the elyptical machine for cardio if there's a few hotties on the stairmasters or other gizmo.

 

[chase]

mtn biking, lifting and a little running...I just exercise whenever i feel like it.

 

[chase]

....got going about 6 weeks ago. I'm not as disciplined as I'd like, but I'm doing better than I ever have in the past 10 years.

My routine is pretty much rowing machine, push ups and sit ups. I've been trying to get up extra early and hit the rower, which I have done pretty much 4 days a week. I'm up to 50-75ish push ups and 50-75ish ab rolls prior to getting on the erg. Starting to show some signs of improvement. I've lost ten pounds.

I still slack more than I want though. I need to be doing this routine 6 days a week, not 3-4. I've been out of shape going into season since high school. I really want to be literally as solid as I can possibly be for this year.

....gets tough though. tomorrow I have to be at a meeting for work 2.5 hours away at 8:45. There's a limit to how early I can get up and get cracking on getting in shape.

Nice work...but make sure you switch up your routine once in a while...if you do the same stuff all the time your body adapts to it and your progress slows...

 

[hardline]

do the same thing i do every year. middle of last month started running 2 miles every other day.by the end of oct ill be up to 5 or six. i also do 100 crunches, 100 leg lifts, do 40 or so lifts for my calves. every once in awhile i jump on my neibors tramp for an hour.

 

[Beetlenut]

I've had to cut back on my "impact" cardio stuff basically alll summer due to nagging and various injuries. As someone who really enjoys running outdoors, this has been tough. Basically, I've gone through bouts of shin splints in both legs on seperate occasions, and then in between the shin splints, I managed to pull the muscles around my left hip responsible associated with the extension movements of your leg.

I had a lot of those problems for a few years before I stopped running all together and switched over to swimming. Get a much better aerobic workout, with no impact issues, and it seems to better target the ski-related muscles in my legs/thighs. So swimming year-round for me.

 

[mondeo]

Since beginning of September, I've been at the gym most days after work for 1-2 hours. Today was half an hour on the bike, half an hour on the elliptical.

Most of what I do is cardio; bike and elliptical, with some stpper and treadmill thrown in. I figure if I push myself hard on that stuff, my legs will be strong enough without weights, for the most part. Lift weights for the upper body on days my legs need rest. I don't particularly believe the absolute numbers, but as a gauge of workout effort I keep tabs on the calorie counters on the machines. An lighter day for me is 1000 cals, as long as I get out of work on time (my main issue at the moment) the goal right now is 1500. Takes about 2 hours of effort, with cool downs between machines, stretching, and the like.

I was intending to go all summer, but I was sick for a month, then unmotivated for a month, then had a few good weeks, and then I screwed up my Achilles for a while. So, I'm looking to knock of 15lbs before ski season, starting Sept. 1st. Already down 3-4.

 

[severine]

Sadly, my routine has gone wayside. Between breaking my bike a few weeks ago, school keeping me busy, dwindling daylight, and screwing up my right ankle (not a sprain but something is definitely wrong with it), I have not been doing any of my usual stuff. I hate it. I need to figure out how to get back into that routine with all this new stuff going on ... but the lack of daylight is a huge problem. I don't feel comfortable running in my city after dark. Too many weirdos, too many hoodlums hanging around. Not a safe thing for a woman to do alone.

I'll figure it out. Even if it means I have to go back to doing my pilates, Yoga Booty Ballet, and Walk Away the Pounds DVDs. They've helped before when conditions weren't conducive to outside exercise for me.

 

[Edd]

Hitting the gym. Warming up with 15-20 min of rowing and then some lifting, 3-4 times a week. I've been slacking on this basic 20 min yoga routine I used to do. Flexibility is number 1, in my mind.

 

[deadheadskier]

Nice work...but make sure you switch up your routine once in a while...if you do the same stuff all the time your body adapts to it and your progress slows...

thanks

I'd like to, but I'm limited by space/equipment and can't stand jogging. I'm going to try and hike on Sundays until the season and come down hill in a rapid dry land skiing type fashion. Also might do some suicide sprints a day or two a week. Read a Phil Mahre article once and he said that was pretty much his primary skiing exercise as it builds the power you need.

Someday I'll have a bigger place where I can have more equipment (can't stand the gym), but right now the home gym is also my office (work from home) and spare bedroom / storage. Ideally I'd love to have the erg, elypitical, skiers edge and a work out bench with dumbells. someday.......

 

[Greg]

Lots of mountain biking. That's about it. I'm not one for "working out". I need to have an activity to get a workout.

 

[Geoff]

Lots of mountain biking. That's about it. I'm not one for "working out". I need to have an activity to get a workout.

+1

I don't "work out". I find outdoor activities I like to do and do them. Cycling, hiking, and rowing top the list during the non-skiing months.

 

[drjeff]

I had a lot of those problems for a few years before I stopped running all together and switched over to swimming. Get a much better aerobic workout, with no impact issues, and it seems to better target the ski-related muscles in my legs/thighs. So swimming year-round for me.

Yup, I know, the pool. My business partner is a nationally ranked masters swimmer and keeps urging me to join his regular work out group for their 3x/a week 5:30AM swim sessions at the YMCA. One of these days i just might have to buy the old speedo and join them

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I'm down a few pounds but I really haven't exercised yet...once I get moved into my new place..I want to start using the eliptical machine.

 

[wa-loaf]

I've been rehabbing my knee, by doing leg presses, squats, lunges and balance work. It's all mostly focused on my left leg, so I'm walking around with one sore leg all the time. Some muscle tone has come back, but it's still much skinnier than the right leg. I also throw in some crunches and push-ups at the end of the work-out.

I'm seeing my doc again in early Dec and he told me not to ski until then. If the season kicks off early I don't know if I can wait that long.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I've been rehabbing my knee, by doing leg presses, squats, lunges and balance work. It's all mostly focused on my left leg, so I'm walking around with one sore leg all the time. Some muscle tone has come back, but it's still much skinnier than the right leg. I also throw in some crunches and push-ups at the end of the work-out.

I'm seeing my doc again in early Dec and he told me not to ski until then. If the season kicks off early I don't know if I can wait that long.

Is this from last seasons ACL tear??? It's gonna be tough to hold off until early December with daily TRs on here starting in early to mid November..

 

[wa-loaf]

Is this from last seasons ACL tear??? It's gonna be tough to hold off until early December with daily TRs on here starting in early to mid November..

Yep.