any help before camp.

[irish_rider]

going away to the wbc after christmas. i dont want to be in bits after the first day so i wa wondering if there was anything i could do, like some kind of exercise) so i wont be so sore so soon. i cant wakeboard right now at home due to the climate and/or lack of boat [sold]

any help would be appreciated
thanks

[Byrd]

You might want to run or cardio some to keep up the endurance. You are going to be sore anyway, so work on the endurance....

[pooser]

make sure you have some good callouses worked up. if youre sore you can still ride but if your hands are torn up its pretty tough.

[Sinkoumn]

Drink a lot of water all day when you get there and ride, that's one of the best ways to avoid being sore the next day IMO

[criswb]

stretch and do cardio to work on endurance... also might want to eat well... drink lots of water... and stretch some more

[bmartin]

If you got a month and have access to a gym or weights, some high rep (25-60 rep) - lighter weight strength training would be beneficial. I would work the core (abs) sit ups leg lifts + others , general upper and lower body workouts (too many to list), but would focus a bit more shoulders (row type). This will help a lot with the 'the morning after first day back - holly crud my muscles are sore'. Stretching and toughening up the hands are solid recs.

[brianw21]

Having a friend who is an olmpic trainer let my tell you what he said:

"The most important thing to work on in this order: CORE, Back, Arms, Shoulders"

Here is a website that has some "core" excersises. Specifically the following excersises he added to my "wakeboard" routine:

Cable Woodchopper (Motion above to below) Pulley in High position.

Reverse Cable Woodchopper (Motion below to above) Pulley in low position.

Horizontal Dumbell Swings. ( Use the middle position on my cable stack)


I started doing these the last month of our season and saw an immediate improvement. Wakeboarding uses a lot of "core" stabalizing muscles that don't see much work in a typical lifting routine.


http://www.bodyresults.com/S2coretraining.asp

[karkid]

dude, lets keep it easy. do pullups like crazy, that'll build callouses and help with back strength.

then for legs and "core" strength, pick up heavy stuff and walk with it, do one legged squats and lunges with heavy stuff.

and alternate sprinting and jogging, endurance is for the birds.

[irish_rider]

practically everyone in my class are taking creatine or protein shakes for rugby. do they help at all, like get you stronger faster?

[Rainther45]

They will help you get stronger but they are also gonna put weight on you.

[karkid]

any extra muscle is gonna put weight on you, regardless of whether or not you are taking creatine and protien. don't waste your money on that unless you are getting serious about lifting weights.

[Rainther45]

Taking Protien is going to put more weight on you than just lifting w/o supplements. It boosts the regrowth of your muscle and its going make your muscle grow back w/ more mass due to the muscle having more protien in your diet. Creatine probably wont put as much weight on you cause the weight that it tends to put in is usually water weight that you can just cardio off.

[Partyb]

That's all good advice above, I don't think you have enough time to make any sort of difference with the protein/creatine. My advice would be to do the above, but above all take it easy the first couple days, you don't wanna get terribly sore the first day or two.