During hot summer a lot of people avoid exercising but when it gets colder, their bodies urge them to start working out again. It’s worth consulting an exercise expert before attending a gym. He/she will check your body fat rate and physical fundamentals such as heart and lung capacity, flexibility, endurance and strength, and then recommend a workout that’s right for you.
Today we’ll concentrate on the examples of the exercises you can do at home.
Bearing in mind that winter sports require strong quadriceps, hamstring, gluteus and calf muscles, but the muscles of the back are also involved. Core strength is a must in order to maintain balance and agility.
A few more words about preparation for winter sports. In order to enjoy the winter season with minimum pain and suffering you’d better take up some classes to prepare your muscles and lungs for the first snowy run. Because it’s not enough to maintain your fitness just by skiing or riding.
If you want to avoid injury and improve performance, get ready for winter sports. No matter if you like snowboarding, ice skating or skiing, each actvity requires strength, flexibility, coordination and balance. Especially balance and stability are crucial and all muscles need to be strong and able to contract and work together to allow jumps and control movements. Core strength increases your efficiency, balance and execution, making it an essential area to target in all pre-seasonal training.
Today we’ll have a look at two more adventure activities worth having a go.
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Winter Kiting is one of them. It’s a young sport, a result of a mariage between windsurfing and skiing. You’ll need a kite and skis, snowboards or sleds. Probably the best place to catch wild currents is Arctic icecaps where winter kiters are pulled up high mountains, and perform high-flying acrobatics not possible on skies or snowboards alone.
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Paragliding lies between parachuting and hang gilding. All you have to do is to jump from a high point and then soar through the air on thermals. Unlike parachuting, it doesn’t involve jumping out of a plane. In paragliding you can steer, brake and increase speed.
If you’re a beginner, you won’t be left alone. You’ll share your first flight with an instructor as a tandem.
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Canyoneering is another extreme activity for all seeking new exciting activities. It’s quite like rock climbing but the goal is to travel down and through a canyon, not just up. You use technical equipment like ropes and carabineers and, of course, your own finesse. It all depends on the canyon you’re in: you can rappel down by rope, slide down waterfalls, wriggle your way through narrow rock spaces, and jump off cliffs into pools of water. Water fans can choose wet canyoneering but dry option is also available.
True adventure fans always search for new and extreme sports to have a go. To create something new they combine and modify classic sports. Sometimes their imagination gives them the ideas for the new activities.
Here are some wacky things to try:
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