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I am off to 3V on Saturday, but haven't been to gym in about 3 weeks. What is the best thing i can do to build up fitness before i leave?

Is it too late - with anything i do this week just being a painful waste of time?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Too late for any real fitness improvement and anything to strenuous could result in an injury. Whatever you do take it easy.
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Depends on what base you're working from but generally it's not worth it. If you were pretty fit before you had them 3 weeks off you'll be fine.

I'm always surprised how quickly I can loose and regain fitness!
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Never too late, every bit helps. Follow this:

http://youtube.com/v/I21XHU-oV7s

Do a bit of yoga and pilates, plenty of YouTube vids around and go for walks/hikes where possible. At home do a few air squats (lose the weight on your squats at this stage), wall sits and then a a good exercise is to get two bits of Kitchen Towel - on a wooden floor, step on a sheet with each foot, spread legs shoulder distance apart and squeeze legs inward until they meet (repeat and go beyond shoulder distance if comfortable). Light non-intense exercises at this stage, it'll take your body too long to recover if you opt for intense exercises now.

Nutrition is key to everything imo, no point in exercising if you don't give your body the right fuel. It'll help you recover quicker and give you plenty of energy for your next workout. Eat clean, never mind calorie counting just eat as much veg as you want, add protein to each of your three main meals. Use fruits and nuts for snacking, occasional square of dark choc to kill the cravings.
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boardiac wrote:
I am off to 3V on Saturday, but haven't been to gym in about 3 weeks. What is the best thing i can do to build up fitness before i leave?

Is it too late - with anything i do this week just being a painful waste of time?


It depends what you were doing up until 3 weeks ago.

If you were fit and doing a ski specific program just drop back into it but reduce the effort/load a touch to avoid injury.

If you were reasonably fit but not from a ski specific point of view then all you can do at this stage is improve your neuromuscular control. By that i mean try to "warm up" the ski muscles and get them firing so that you have better control. So alight strength program of ski specific muscles.There is a limited amount of strength increase but you can get the muscle to work a bit harder with above regimen.

There is nothing to stop you doing a strength program if you were doing one til recently.

There is limited amount you can do for your cardio fitness but if you are reasonably fit and have not done any intervals you could do some.

Jonathan Bell
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