Shape Up Or Ship Out
– A WORKOUT IDEA FOR
GETTING IN SHAPE THIS SUMMER
Author: Kayle McMillen
Alright Ladies! It’s that time again, at least for us Canadians, to start riding again. But if you have some serious goals for this summer and really want to push yourself, you are going to have to get prepared. Particularly us girls in Canada only have a short wakeboard season, you don’t want to waste it getting back into shape. You always realize how much strength and endurance it takes to wakeboard/wakeskate after the first session each season -and at least for me the few days after that recovering.
Ideally you are looking to increase your cardiovascular endurance, muscle strength, flexibility, core strength and balance. A good workout routine will increase all these aspects as well as contribute to injury prevention by practicing proper technique and increasing muscle and joint strength.
Some things wakeboarders should concentrate on is joint stability especially within the knee. Arm, back and shoulder strength is also important, as well as balance, flexibility and core stability. . . . . .so pretty much everything!
I have tried to make a overall workout routine using minimal equipment that you can find at home or get for a small price. These exercises can be used for a variety of levels by altering the sets, reps, weight/resistance. I have tried to include some basic exercises and hopefully some you haven’t heard of before. The workout is as hard as you want it to be and I have also added in some ways to increase the difficulty of some of the exercises. Don’t kill yourself the first time, the last thing I want is for anyone to get hurt. So try out the exercises and then start to add more weight/resistance and increasing the difficulty. Hopefully you will learn a few things about exercising from this article and a few new exercises. I have tried to suggest proper technique, which I can’t stress how important it is and how difficult it is to explain in an article, especially on some of the more complex exercises. (more…)
Workout of the Week – Travel Core Routine
Here is a work out article written by Erika Langman (It’s not recommended that you try this work out on a rail, it’s just all we had to work with at the time being stranded in the middle of the lake!) : (more…)
