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What should I be doing fitness and stretching wise?
I've also heard of people taking asprin on arrival to the ski resort?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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depends on how bad the hangover is on your arrival
read the thread on the cross trainer
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've also heard of people taking asprin on arrival to the ski resort
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Just to remind those with a dodgy gut NOT to take asprin.
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Nick-o,
You should have done it all by now and should be looking to get to wind down into the last week...!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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lol great
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Nick-o, take it easy now, go for a walk rather than a run, etc. You don't want to damage anything before you go.
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Nick-o, Stretching and excersize would do you the world of good, even if just mentally.
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Nick-o, jump in a time machine go back three months and start regular exercise and eat nothing but pea and lettuce soup.
Oh - nearly forgot - you'll need some " Windcheaters ".
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You should be up to 2 or 3 raclettes a week by now, a bottle and a hald of red wine per night, luke warm table water, oh - and you should have perfected how to get a weeks wear out of one pair of thermals! 
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Nick-o, what Paul Mason said (except for the eat nothing but pea & lettuce soup bit).
Yr about 6months too late, mate. Ask question again when you've got that kind of time up yr sleeve.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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OK... i've taken note and although i'm off to meribel on saturday i've start to plan for next years trip.... what do i do?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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IMHO, you need a base level of fitness from doing whatever you do when you are not skiing ~ I do swimming, mountain biking or walking about 3 times a week (not each, in total!) plus Canadian Exercises most mornings ~ which are basically just a set 15 min workout of sit ups, push ups, leg raising, star jumps devised for the Canadian Air Force in the 70s, but still the standard stuff that's peddled nowadays.
Then 3 or 4 months to go, I do a "Ski Fit" video (which admittedly, is pretty girlie, but it works all the relevant muscle groups and there is probably a more macho equivalent out there). Also do a bit of cross training at the gym, but not a great one for the gym because I get bored and feel like a hamster on a treadmill.
Also go to the nearest dry ski slope once or twice just before I go ... I read a theory you can avoid DOMS [Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness] on the slopes by doing this. DOMS is caused by tiny tears in muscles, which then heal and make the muscles stronger so by doing this you get over the soreness in Blighty before you go. It all sounded a bit unlikely to me, but has actually seemed to work... Anyone else know anything about this?
Also watch a few DVDs on skiing techniques just to remind myself of the basics. And print out piste maps off the web.... and spend hours looking at !
Well, that's all folks! Not that i get really excited about my ski holidays or anything.... 
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