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I just got back from a weeks boarding and yesterday tried skiing again. I managed to get parallel turning and did about 5-6 hours. But the front of my thighs were absolutely killing me and I keep on having to stop. Is that normal? I always get paranoid about health issues you see.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What's you general fitness like? What sports / training do you do regularly?
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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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well at the moment not a lot but as I say over xmas I was boarding for a full 6 days which should have prepared me dont you think? I did go to the gym every day in the UK but where I live in France there is niothing really so I dont bother. I am 34 if that makes any difference
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Thigh burn is normal - you're out of practise, next time do the dreaded squats and leaning against the wall before you go.
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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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I just read it could be to do with technique also and I was skidding and steering in my turns I think. Maybe I need lessons.
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Not having done both but I suspect the muscle groups will be subtly different. I am a hockey (field) player and so normally when I go skiing it is well into the season, and it is quite good exercise for your quads. Hubby used to suffer the same before he took up running. He typically runs about 7 miles ago now and commented how much easier skiing was afterwards and how he general fitness made a huge difference. Of course it is possible that improvements to your technique will also help but I bet it is just fitness / muscle conditioning.
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I find thigh burn results if I lean back too much. Pushing on the front of my boots and getting my hands forward seems to put my body in a better position and the thigh burn eases. Could be coincidence though and I know my general level of fitness could be a lot better.
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gravitate, skiing in 2013 is much different to skiing in 1993, so I guess a couple of lessons in how to carve the skis properly would help a lot.
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Err ... well ... (dons very tatty old ski instructor's cap, not worn for decades) ... skiing, physics, and the human frame never change.
It's always been the case that you mustn't ski in the back seat, and always will be. The only thing that's changed is that the equipment just gets easier and easier to use. So there's less and less excuse for not using it!
Invest in hours of high quality ski instruction. Not only does it cut your energy and muscle input by 50%+ - it cuts the fall and injury risk by far more than that (maybe 80%, at a guess).
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OK thanks for the replies. Will do some running and ask for free lessons in my club 
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I was skidding and steering in my turns I think. Maybe I need lessons.
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lots of perfectly respectable turns involve steering! and skidding, too. They won't make your thighs burn if you are properly balanced over the skis - chances are your weight was back so your quads were holding you up. Yes, lessons. And squats won't go amiss. 
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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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Thigh burn can be caused by having too much forward lean, this could either by having boots which have an aggressive angle or even by being too soft, allowing you to get further forward. The burn is from using the muscles to effectively get up from a crouch every time you turn. A stiffer boot, or less lean allows you to work the most efficient, middle part of your muscle, rather than at the extremes of it's range of tension.
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| I was boarding for a full 6 days, admittedly sat down for 3 of them but that should have prepared me dont you think? |
Fixed it for you! 
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You know it makes sense.
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Nobody has mentioned going to a good boot fitter yet!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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In the past I've suffered from thigh burn quite often when doing steep and long reds, never mind blacks. So skiing last week, I tried to focus on always being better balanced over the skis, flexed forward, arms out in front and pole planting as much as possible. The only time I got any thigh burn was on a very steep and long black (where the above techniques went out of the window  ) and a subsequent long red, where I obviously hadn't recovered enough.
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