A New Ski Season Is Ahead - How Will You Prepare?

Good for you Dave - set a goal and push forward.

I just left the Ortho's office for a shoulder follow (nothing compared to a hip!) and received the green light to get back on the water. Sure seems like October was forever ago.

Good Stuff Guys...glad to see many of you are the Gym or working on losing a few pounds. The way it's looking/sounding; you may have to reintroduce yourselves as we may not recognize you!

Truthfully though, are y'all really wanting to lose a few pounds for health reasons or are you just too cheap to buy a larger Barefoot suit?

Keep it the good work Gentlemen!

Getting closer to the season - everyone still progressing?

I have hit the -25 mark and pretty much a wall. Need to change things up a bit to get over this hump, perhaps some ski time will help.

Donald80SN wrote: I still look great Naked !!!!!!!! Donald

Don't bother with pictures. The picture of Kristof in the bathtub was enough!!

81nautique wrote: Looks like I may have a little extra work to do when I get home.

How about eating what Dana eats??

NCH20SKIER wrote: Getting closer to the season - everyone still progressing? I have hit the -25 mark and pretty much a wall. Need to change things up a bit to get over this hump, perhaps some ski time will help.

Donald80SN wrote: Greg, I have hit my wall at 17 lbs. I have been eating less and better and go to the gym five to six days a week. I have forgotten what beer taste like. Been doing this since October. I have been doubling my workout routine and that has begun to move the me down two or three pounds, but then I bounce back two or three pounds. My paints do not fit, but scale does not move fast. I still look great Naked !!!!!!!! Donald

I tell people all the time, if you are putting in a lot of workout time, the inches lost are more important than pounds lost on the scale. Muscle is more dense than fat, so you can add muscle, lose fat and inches without your weight changing much. Muscle burns way more calories than fat both at rest and while moving, so gaining muscle raises you basal metabolic rate (the number of calories you burn sitting still), which means you should lose more fat if your calorie intake stays the same and you consume enough protein to build muscle. Eventually, the muscle building will stop, the fat loss will continue, and fat pounds will continue to come off, then you lose weight. At some point your body fat gets low enough that it becomes very difficult to lose more weight; starve more and you begin to lose muscle, you burn fewer calories, you feel bad and your body does all it can to store fat, but these days, most people in first world countries don't go there unless they have an eating and/or compulsive exercise disorder. In fact most people give up when their weight plateaus, they stop exercising, lose muscle, slow their metabolism and slowly gain fat weight ending up where they started when they began or worse. This is the yo yo cycle that causes so many problems; if you lose enough muscle and gain enough fat, it becomes very hard to overcome the physiology that works to maintain fat stores.

Keep after it Greg and Donald (and Steve and Alan). I struggle daily, but I get to hear myself preach these sermons to patients weekly, so maybe that is why I have managed to keep my weight pretty stable since 2006. There is a part of me that would like washboard abs and a weight in the 160's but I have come to accept that getting there is just too uncomfortable to be worth it.

Greg, that is right up my alley, but that weekend I have committed to the Junior development ski day (Saturday) and slalom tournament (Sunday).

This clip is my motivation........... I CANNOT do this - almost any of those moves! It looks simple but it is killer. She makes it look easy.......... Motivation

Wayne
To bad you can't make this but sure sounds like you have some fun lined up as well.
Hope to see you at WL

8122pbrainard wrote: Donald80SN wrote: I still look great Naked !!!!!!!! Donald Don't bother with pictures. The picture of Kristof in the bathtub was enough!!

That picture is burned deeply in the memory of some CCFaners...
So I guess it will haunt me for many more years to come.

Ready here..... need a driver! Come on down Hollywood!

Can't wait to get home and get back on the water. Hope the wing holds up. May need Dr. Steve / Wayne to help a brother out

The only thing I need to shed is the 4' snow pile that is still in front of my boat tongue and the rock solid lakes and ponds around here.

Great work guys!!! Keep it up!
Last year pounds just piled on or changed to fat... While working (I traveled almost every week since May '14 5 days a week), I also got a Master's degree. So one the weekends, I spent as much time as possible with the family on the lake (lots of beer, brats and burgers...).
I needed to change some habits... While I still travle almost every week for work (so far 41 flights this year), I got lees on my plate (haha) since I graduated 12/12/14.
By now, I'm 2 month into my freeletics training and I can tell I changed (not only my diet and training routine).
While I only lost 11 lbs, I lost some inches and gained some muscle (or so I hope).
Today I had to run 1k, then 4x 100 jumping jacks and 100 froggers, then run again 1k. While it is hard, at the same time, by now I look forward to working out and kind like burpees???

Yesterday the BF suit arrived and I'm looking forward to this season, even thou I still have some more to loose.

A healthy, active lifestyle is not selfish. Eat now and die young or exercise and grow old? I'm sure she prefers the weight, I mean wait.

This isn't communist China man. Your schedule is your schedule.