Pre-season Fitness

[parrothd]

This is very true. The biggest issue is we eat far too much food. Eating huge portions not only is far too many calories, but it also stretches out your stomach, exacerbating the problem. Eat smaller portions of whatever, you'll feel hungry for a bit, until your stomach adjusts. Then it's much easier. Eat whatever you want, just eat less of it.

That and avoid sugar, Check labels sugar is added to everything from lunch meat to ketchup.

[Matt0520]

My point was that when losing weight, when the needle on the scale doesn’t move, the inexperienced often will drop calories under their basal metabolic rate and they will still not lose weight.

When in fact they need to eat more to lose weight.

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Yep! I've helped a few friends and they're baffled when they ask me how to lose weight and I tell them "eat more". Everything in the body is in balance, if you starve yourself, the body down-regulates your metabolism while also triggering more fat storage.

I like the broccoli comment earlier, don't put salt or butter on ______ and see how much you eat. You'll be amazed how it's hard to stuff your face when you're not hijacking your pallet with add-ons. Case in point: I destroyed a whole bag of sweet potato chips last night without even realizing it.

I used to sell to food manufacturers and I was amazed at how much sorcery goes into the flavor profiles, ingredients, etc. of our food. And it's all designed to make us eat more and actually shut down the hormones (ghrelin/leptin) that should be released to tell us to stop eating.

That and avoid sugar, Check labels sugar is added to everything from lunch meat to ketchup.

BINGO. This is so huge. Cutting out sugar (as well as dairy) has been night and day for me in a ton of ways. It's hard, because it's everywhere (even in vitamins) but it has caused an epidemic here in the US.

Another sugar-related thing to cut out is sucralose, HFCS, etc. Worse than sugar, bc your body doesn't have any idea what to do with it. 100% gets stored. And it destroys your gut.

I work part-time in EMS and virtually every diabetic I've worked with is on diet/chemical sweeteners. Sadly, they never get better.

[Matt0520]

Anyway, more on topic...I'm newer to wakeboarding - is stretching a lot beneficial?

I've never been that flexible, wondering if focusing more on mobility will help keep my summer season long? Yoga? lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COBW2F69wto

[BrentC5Z]

IMO stretching is beneficial to everything you do. Especially high impact activities like wakeboarding. Most people forget to stretch AFTER.

[larry_arizona]

Big fan of yoga. About 10-11 years ago, I picked up a yoga book written by Diamond Dallas Page. It’s a form of power yoga and controlled breathing. I don’t get into the yoga culture/spiritual, but the poses are legit.

https://www.diamonddallaspage.com/fitness-guru/

I still do it to this day, I found about 5-6 weeks I achieved my maximum flexibility and that 1x per week after the beginners phase was all I needed to maintain.

Yoga, compliments any sport, but the balance alone would translate directly to surfing.

Flexibility and Balance were the two greatest gains. Even when I have gotten out of shape and fat, my flexibility and balance are still above average, it’s due to muscle memory.


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[rdlangston13]

I work with a guy from Mumbai and he is not too pleased with the American butchering of yoga lol. But he meditates for like a half hour every day after he showers and refuses to do yoga on the ship because it can only be done on the ground and ships float. Also, you can’t do yoga if you’re not on the ground floor of a building apparently because you’re not connected to the earth or something like that.


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[larry_arizona]

I work with a guy from Mumbai and he is not too pleased with the American butchering of yoga lol. But he meditates for like a half hour every day after he showers and refuses to do yoga on the ship because it can only be done on the ground and ships float. Also, you can’t do yoga if you’re not on the ground floor of a building apparently because you’re not connected to the earth or something like that.


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Have you ever had Chinese food in China? It sucks!!!!


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[parrothd]

Yep! I've helped a few friends and they're baffled when they ask me how to lose weight and I tell them "eat more". Everything in the body is in balance, if you starve yourself, the body down-regulates your metabolism while also triggering more fat storage.

I like the broccoli comment earlier, don't put salt or butter on ______ and see how much you eat. You'll be amazed how it's hard to stuff your face when you're not hijacking your pallet with add-ons. Case in point: I destroyed a whole bag of sweet potato chips last night without even realizing it.

I used to sell to food manufacturers and I was amazed at how much sorcery goes into the flavor profiles, ingredients, etc. of our food. And it's all designed to make us eat more and actually shut down the hormones (ghrelin/leptin) that should be released to tell us to stop eating.



BINGO. This is so huge. Cutting out sugar (as well as dairy) has been night and day for me in a ton of ways. It's hard, because it's everywhere (even in vitamins) but it has caused an epidemic here in the US.

Another sugar-related thing to cut out is sucralose, HFCS, etc. Worse than sugar, bc your body doesn't have any idea what to do with it. 100% gets stored. And it destroys your gut.

I work part-time in EMS and virtually every diabetic I've worked with is on diet/chemical sweeteners. Sadly, they never get better.

I also do time restricted eating, climbing and onewheeling really keeps me in shape all winter. Just snowboarded 4 days in Whistler, my legs held up..

[rdlangston13]

Have you ever had Chinese food in China? It sucks!!!!


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Chinese food sucks in general but yeah. I imagine it would be worse in China that it is here. That's pretty standard for nearly all "ethnic" foods. Tex-mex is better than actual Mexican food, pizza in Italy doesn't have sauce (wth), ect ect...

[Shoebox]

Chinese food sucks in general but yeah. I imagine it would be worse in China that it is here. That's pretty standard for nearly all "ethnic" foods. Tex-mex is better than actual Mexican food, pizza in Italy doesn't have sauce (wth), ect ect...

You guys are smoking crack. All ethnic foods are far better in their countries of origin.