weight loss and skiing

**fat yeti** · 10-05-2006, 08:00 AM

I am just wondering how wieght loss has effected your skiing. This year the fat yeti has slimmed down a bit from 5' 8" 198 to about 173. We had a contest at work who could losss the most weight, the pot is $300 and if all goes well i shoudl win, at least I hope. I hope to loose more weight by the time the bird open's I hope to weigh around 155 to 160 at that point. I have been working out but running, mt biking, stationary bike and the eliptical. Im wondering how this weight loss will effect my ability to ski the bid daddies that I own, i hope the muscle I have gained will make up for the weight I have lost. Any imput would be great and any other work out suggestion for ski tranning for the up comming season would be great as well. Thanks

**steve** · 10-05-2006, 08:05 AM

between 04-05 and 05-06 I lost 20 lbs.
it made a huge difference.

**scarlet begonias** · 10-05-2006, 08:09 AM

IMHO weight loss (currently at 10 pounds down and lots more to go!!) impacts everything very significantly. Even just carrying 10 pounds less around now is easier on my joints, knees etc.

Keep up the cardio and lift weights. My nutritionist has me on a very high protein, low fat and low carb diet. It is tricking my body into eating/burning fat versus burning up my lean mass (muscle). To date (since 9/11), I have lost 10 pounds of pure fat. My body fat % has gone down ~5% and I have gained 4 pounds of muscle. What is happening is my metabolism has sky rocketed and I am just burning lots of fat.

I can't wait till ski season to see how much better I feel when I ski. It is going to be so much better on my knees in the bumps, park and pipe (gotta keep up with the kiddies that I coach ya know?). I think overall my ski season is going to be stellar not only to being in better shape, but due to the weight loss.

Good luck Yeti!!! More power to you my friend. Keep up the good work and
THINK SNOW!!!

**sea2ski** · 10-05-2006, 08:10 AM

I lose about 5 to 10 lbs. a week when I'm skiing hard.

Also less stress on the joints.

**Sensisnow** · 10-05-2006, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by steve

between 04-05 and 05-06 I lost 20 lbs.
it made a huge difference.

Agreed, I lost 50 lbs. between 03-04 and 04-05 and it made me a much better skier. You don't have nearly as much weight to manage and since you've been working out all Summer your muscles are in much better condition. It's amazing how much of a difference you'll notice after just one run.

Congrats on the weight loss and good luck losing a bit more! Now just keep at it and don't let that weight return!

**72Twenty** · 10-05-2006, 08:14 AM

I've been trying to trim some pounds this year too. I've always been a little pudgy my whole life, but this year I gained weight after I quit chewing, then started taking a little off, then the baby came and I started gaining a littel back, and now I am working out again to burn some back off. I think it will make a huge difference in everything. I, too have Big Daddies now, so I am focusing alot of my exercise to leg strength, abs and flexibility. (I am moving up to Big Daddies from Pocket Rockets

). Keep at it!

**steve** · 10-05-2006, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by bumpskier

I can't wait till ski season to see how much better I feel when I ski.

nor can I.. I've lost even more weight this year, and will probably lose another 10-20 lbs before skiing gets under way.

**yooper** · 10-05-2006, 08:15 AM

(not so fat anymore) Yeti,
First off, congrats on the weight loss! You should be pretty pleased. Personally, I don't know if I would try to get any lower than you are. 5'8 173 is pretty balanced and healthy, I would say. 155 would border on scrawny. I think you would compromise strength at some point. Obviously, its up to you. Only you know how you feel, but don't get too obsessed!

**skibee** · 10-05-2006, 08:34 AM

Hey who you calling scrawny at 155/ 5'8. Those are mntlion's normal dimensions and right now he is 147, but I don't recomend his weight loss program. He has always skied big long but SOFT skis as a light weight and finds that if he skis a stiff ski they tend to ski him a bit. As for the big daddy, as a heli ski guide working with guests on that ski, you had better be a performer if you want to weigh 155 and still be in contro of that gear... some of my fellow guides would ski that ski but they would weigh in at 170 and then add 30 lbs of gear to their profile before they went out each day. (and be putting in 100 days a year and the big daddys never came out of the shop until feburary anyway).

Get strong, gain some weight in muscle an dthen be sure you are not suffering from testosterone poisioning on your ski choice.

B

**4matic** · 10-05-2006, 08:39 AM

Less weight, much easier on the knees.

**The AD** · 10-05-2006, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by 72Twenty

then the baby came

Off topic, but this expression always cracks me up. I have this mental image of a stork dropping the baby off at your house unexpectedly

**berko** · 10-05-2006, 08:53 AM

Last season, I went from 155 to 145 and was shocked how much easier skiing was.

**Anxious Mo-Fo** · 10-05-2006, 08:56 AM

If you're a diabetic, you can try the drug that made me lose 30 pounds in two months: Symlin for Type 1 or Byetta for Type 2. It's a synthetic version of a protein found in the gila monster, no joke, and it basically makes you stop eating. I'm surprised that more non-diabetics aren't using it. Bad news is it sometimes makes you really nauseous.

Very cool to be back to my high school weight.

**BushwackerinPA** · 10-05-2006, 08:57 AM

In 2002 coming off a hernia surgery I weighed 240lb. Un hunh that skinny ass kid at ullr fest was the fat kid. Last season around May after 7 months of skiing that year and 4 years staight I weighed 165lb. I started MTBIng alot and I look thinner but oddly I now weigh 175lb.

Skiing quite possiable saved my life. 240lb was way to much for some like me to weigh.

It goes with out saying skiing at around 165 I am much better than 200+

**yooper** · 10-05-2006, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by skibee

Hey who you calling scrawny at 155/ 5'8?

Hey, I said borderline

Plus, it depends on your build... Y'know big boned or thin. But I would say for most people, 5'8 170 or so is fine. I'm 5'10 180 and I am a pretty thin built guy. Definitely not even approaching thick.

My main point is, don't lose weight to the point that you start losing muscle. And DON'T attempt Mtn lion's weight loss program!

**Rontele** · 10-05-2006, 09:24 AM

I need to lose twenty pounds. law school really crimps into my eating habits and exercise routines, unfortunately.

**Tuckerman** · 10-05-2006, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by 72Twenty

I quit chewing

I guess now you just swallow. Good for you.

**altagirl** · 10-05-2006, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by sea2ski

I lose about 5 to 10 lbs. a week when I'm skiing hard.

Also less stress on the joints.

How is this possible? Do you just not eat? Are you on the Trackhead, skinning 20,000ft every day plan? Do you weigh 300lbs normally? Are you a skeleton at the end of the season?

**Sphinx** · 10-05-2006, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by yooper

Hey, I said borderline

Plus, it depends on your build... Y'know big boned or thin. But I would say for most people, 5'8 170 or so is fine. I'm 5'10 180 and I am a pretty thin built guy. Definitely not even approaching thick.

Fatass.

When I lose weight my butt looks smaller in my ski pants. It's really weird.

**yooper** · 10-05-2006, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Sphinx

Fatass.

When I lose weight my butt looks smaller in my ski pants. It's really weird.

I'm not a fatass!!!

Does my ass look look fat in these pants????

**addict** · 10-05-2006, 09:40 AM

Yeah ski season's a killer. I start the season at 6'3" 185-190lbs of muscle and end up at about 170-175lbs of skeletor muscle. Even a solid diet of 3 plates of meat pasta a night followed by 2 mixes of instant pudding can't keep that weight on when you're skinning all day.

**Rontele** · 10-05-2006, 09:43 AM

That is a picture of Leland Turner, one of my buddies. Where did you get this photo? Leon?

**yooper** · 10-05-2006, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by Rontele

That is a picture of Leland Turner, one of my buddies. Where did you get this photo? Leon?

I think I saved it off a thread on here. It's freakin hilarious.

**Rontele** · 10-05-2006, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by yooper

I think I saved it off a thread on here. It's freakin hilarious.

You should see the video from that day.

**ski_faster** · 10-05-2006, 09:54 AM

I used to weigh 230 and serveral years ago. Then I just deciced that I need to lose weight. I got down to 180 before that winter. I am 5'10''. My skiing improved my leaps and bounds. I have keep it off and its kind of funny cause usually each summer I usually gain 5-10lbs because I am out boating and drinking beers. I always lose that summer weight about this time of year because I bump up the training for skiing.