The only skiing I'll ever do is on water during a 80degree or better day.
A freakin MEN.
It's interesting that water skiing burns way more calories than running and works ALL your muscles. You’re essentially working your body from your toes and ankles in the ski bindings and boots to your neck to your thumbs giving us older folks: leg stability, inner thighs, back, core and forearm strength. Slalom is a better workout physically. Cutting back and forth, it really gets the blood flowing (Major Cardio). But even just being pulled is harder work bc one ski vs two.
The Health Benefits of Water Skiing
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Health Fitness Revolution
March 20, 2014 (Yeah, I know: it's an old article BUT it 100% STILL APPLIES):
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Do you love the water, going to the beach, or surfing? If so, you might love water skiing too! Not only is water skiing super fun, but there’s also a healthy adrenaline rush, similar to
surfing and
kitesurfing. Whether you’ve never tried it or you’re a seasoned professional, we’ve compiled this list of health benefits of water skiing to feed your curiosities!
Muscle Toning: There’s a misconception that water skiing is all about the lower body, but it’s simply not true. Water skiing uses every muscle in your body! It develops your posture, your shoulders, and your arms become quite strong in order to hold on to the rope.
- Increased Balance and Core Strength: Getting up on the skis- and staying up- require you to develop both your balance and core strength. You have to have a lot of strength to prevent the waves from sweeping you away!
- Resistance Training: Water skiing forces you to hold yourself up and keep going using resistance. It works core muscles, arm muscles, leg muscles, and all the muscles around them. It’s also a lot safer than using free weights which can strain your muscles.
- Easy on the Joints: Water skiing uses just about every muscle in the body without wearing down joints because it’s all body weight resistance in free range of motion.
- Promotes Strong Legs: Tones up your legs fast. They absorb the energy of crossing the bumpy wake behind the boat, control your direction and are bent in a half-squat throughout, giving you particularly strong quads.
- Meditative Aspect: Being on the water, much like in sailing, can have a calming effect on the mind and forces you to focus on the task at hand, forgetting about the day to day stresses and worries. Not to mention that the endorphins from being active will keep you happy and healthy!
- Calorie Burning: a moderate (who does that? Most of us will burn this in 20 minutes [of actual ski time]) hour session on water skis can burn about 400 calories.
- Overall Health: As with all forms of physical exercise, water skiing can reduce or eliminate your risk for many health problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity. It can also reduce your risk for coronary heart disease by reducing your triglyceride levels and increasing your good cholesterol.
An interesting statement from a President of a snow skiing teaching company:
Bruce Brooks
President (1988–present)
Which is more difficult: snow or water skiing?
I have snow skied a lot for 45 years, was an instructor for 5 years, a race coach for 12. I have taught many people who had never skied to be able to have fun in a day and fairly proficient in 10 days on the hill if they would listen and do as instructed.
I took up water skiing when I was 44 years old, traded the off road race car for a boat. I live just 5 miles from 2 lakes, so I got into skiing pretty hard. The first two years we tried self teaching and just go as fast as the boat would go. We had daily horrible crashes and were not getting much better. I got involved with a local water ski club and began getting top notch coaching from a couple of world class skiers. I was sure that with my snow ski race background I would be able to run the full slalom course by the end of the summer and very vocally said so. Other club members were quiet. End of the summer came and despite excellent coaching and skiing 5- 8 times a week (lunch hours and evenings) I was not making full passes in the slalom course. It took several dedicated years to be able to consistently run the slalom course and shorten the line length.
I would say in my case snow skiing is easier, both are extremely fun and good work outs. I like to ski fast and it is easier to ski fast on snow, much more freedom, as well as variety.
