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G3U Presents How To Get Out Of Deep Snow With Your Ski Poles

In this episode of G3U, Melanie Bernier explains how to use your ski poles to get out of deep snow. Instead of wallowing in the powder like a stuck hog, use your ski poles to help you get up and out of the deep snow. Learn How To Get Out Of Deep Snow With G3U Watch More G3U Official Description From YouTube: Melanie Bernier shares a quick little trick for how to get up from deep snow if you crash…

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Skiing Tips So that Beginners €“ The Basics

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[insulin-aholic]

Just a few random cold-weather hints from a diabetic who loves the snow and needed to post something or another.

Remember to keep your feet and hands warm. Diabetics are already at risk for vein and artery disorders that result from high blood sugar, neuropathy, and numbness in the feet.  Keeping them away from extreme temperatures, especially the cold, will be beneficial and help protect your feet from the complications we are all at risk for.  I didn’t know this and thought my cold appendages was just from the snow and would do little to no harm, just like it would anyone else.  I was wrong, and ever since, I’ve had a great excuse to hoard fuzzy socks.

Don’t be like me and forget to tell your ski instructor that you are a diabetic.  I haven’t always lived up north, and I didn’t think skiing would be any worse than running and a good temporary basal and some extra carbs floating about would keep me fine. I was with my friend’s family, and thank God that lodge had a lot of cookies. (I was like eight, haha.)  Remember the cold weather will likely make you run much lower than usual, and to plan accordingly, tell your instructor that you are a diabetic, and have the ski patrol number even if you think you won’t need it. (This is pretty common-sense for anyone old enough to have a tumblr, but not everyone lives where it snows and knows how cold weather can affect you.  Altitude can, as well, and if you’re coming from a lower elevation, load yourself with carbs. I’m no endo, but you will almost positively drop faster than ever before.)

Hydrate and check at the end or beginning of every run.  Again, don’t be me at eight years old and think it’s easy to check on a snow-covered hill.

Vitamins C and D can be very beneficial during the cold and flu seasons. My endo was all for it, especially living where I do, so check with your endo if you think it will help protect you from sicknesses.  These can also help you avoid other complications, including mental illnesses.  Don’t go and put yourself on a huge does of the vitamins before you check with your doctor, but it wouldn’t hurt to mention it.

So, even though my post has mainly been common-sense reminders, I hope you enjoyed and all can rock your diabetes in the new year.

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Hi, I’m Taylor McCabe, physiotherapist here at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy in North Vancouver. This is the seventh video in a series that we are posting each week to guide you through the exercise to get your body ready for ski season. Now ski season is really only a couple weeks away so it’s time to get off the floor, off the wall and put together everything we’ve been working on in the lateral lunge. I’m going to show you two versions of this exercise.

In the first one, your weight is going to be one foot while the other one is on a towel. You are going to lower down into your lunge, you other leg is going to stay straight and slide out to the side and then come back up to the start. So like this.

In version two, you’re going to have your weight on the foot that is on the towel, this time pushing away from your planted foot, dropping into your lunge and then returning to the start.

Ok, a couple of things to keep in mind for both versions, you want to make sure you are synchronizing your breath with the movements you avoid breathing with the tension. Make sure your bending knee is lining up over your second toe.  When you lower down, really think about that crease in the front of your hip, sticking your tailbone back and your sit bones staying nice and wide as you lower into the lunge. And finally, getting the power from your glutes to bring you back up to the starting position.

We are going to have a few more videos coming your way on balance training as well as a good dynamic warm up and cool down for skiing, these will be presented by Jamie Snow. I hope you found these exercises helpful, dare I say fun. I had fun showing them to you, thank you so much for watching.

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Hello, I’m Taylor McCabe, physiotherapist here at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy in North Vancouver. This is the 4th video in a series that we’re posting each week to guide you through the exercise to get your body ready for ski season.  If you’ve been following along then you’re already working on the endurance of your thigh and glute muscles as well as your hip abductors so this week we’re going to put that all together and work on the dynamic wall squat.

I’m going to demonstrate this will a ball, it can just as easily be done without and the technique points are going to be very much the same as for the wall sit so choose your floor surface and your footwear combination to make sure you’re not going to slip. Start with your feet hip width apart and far enough away from you so that as you lower down you create a 90 degree angles at your hips, knees and ankles.  Now instead of hanging out here like we did in the wall sit right away you’re going to drive with your glutes to get your hips back up in the starting position.  So more continuously it looks something like that.  Make sure that your knees are tracking over your second toes.  This is the job of your hip abductors; really focus there if you’re having trouble keeping that alignment.

A sample program to start might be 3 sets of 20 repetitions taking 2 minutes to rest in between sets. If you want to up the difficulty as always you can increase the number of reps, increase the number of sets or decrease the rest time.  You also can experiment with the pace of the exercise, taking lots of time to do the movement especially the downward phase to really challenge your muscles.  You also want to practice at a pace that mimics your skiing rhythm.  Now skiing is a two legged activity but we know that we have most of our weight on one ski at a time as we’re carving so when you feel like you’ve mastered the two legged wall squat challenge yourself to a one side more.  Some of the ways you might do this could be putting one foot further in front or like we talked about in the wall sit taking some or all of your other foot off the ground. Now you’re going to have to shift your weight to allow this but it shouldn’t involve any tilt of the trunk or pelvis, try to keep all that level.  And that’s it.  Get to work.

Remember to check out Body Works Sports Physiotherapy on Facebook, You Tube and our website body-works.ca for next week’s video.  If you have any comments to share about our videos we would love to hear them so please leave a comment on Facebook.  Thanks for watching.

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What to Remember When Learning How to Ski

If you are new to skiing, you might think that all you would need to do is to slide from the top of the hill to the bottom.  Unfortunately, there is more to skiing than sliding.  You need to learn a lot of things like what to wear or how to ride a lift. It seems like there are more ways to do it wrong than right.  So, what are the things you need to remember when learning how to ski?

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Don’t Wear Jeans

When learning how to ski, you’d likely fall on your bottom a few times. Avoid jeans to keep yourself warm while skiing.  Wear dungarees instead.

Use a Helmet

Helmet reduces the likelihood of head injuries by 50%.  So, the next time you go skiing, make sure to use a helmet.

Ski Within Your Level

As much as you’d like to try routes that seem more exciting, you need to stay within your ski level.  Skiing above your level is a surefire way to wreck your day.  Avoid areas with danger signs and black diamonds.

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Get a Professional to Teach You How to Ski

Don’t ask your significant other to teach you how to ski unless he or she is a professional skier. Get a professional to teach you how to ski especially if you are a beginner.

Observe the Skier Responsibility Code

This code is a common sense guide to staying safe.  You cannot ignore them.  This is the road map of what to do and what not to do.  Here’s the code below:

Don’t Be Rude

Skiing will have you rubbing elbows with other people.  Skiing requires building camaraderie with other people in the slopes. Generally, skiers are polite and helpful.  So, try to be polite and helpful.  Don’t be rude.

Avoid Skiing Close to Children

Children skiing are super cute, but they can be fidgety.  You need to have a quick reflex when skiing close or near children. Avoid skiing close to children.

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Don’t Ski Drunk

Don’t knock a few back before you hit the slopes. Don’t ski while drunk. You’ll be a danger to yourself and to other skiers.

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3 Tricks to Staying Out of the Backseat When Skiing

One of the easiest ways to blow a knee when skiing is to get in the backseat. The angle on the leg creates enough strain that the ACL tendon has known to just snap right off its attachment. It’s safe to say that that is feeling no one wants to feel.

So, how do you keep yourself from falling victim to getting in the backseat? Here are three tips that will help you keep your weight where it should be…right over center.

1. Pretend you are a waiter at a white glove restaurant and it is your job to serve fancy champagne that costs $1,000 per glass. Obviously, in this scenario it is imperative that you don’t drop a glass off of your tray. So, how do you do that? Make sure that the tops of your poles are staying at a level angle.

There are no major shifts of the positioning of the hands, helping to make sure that the invisible tray of champagne glasses stays right where it’s supposed to. This imagery trick helps your body to stay level and to avoid hand movements that make you look like you are waiving to the camera (which will lead to falling on your butt).

2. Focus on the ball of the foot. When it comes to the exact placement of body weight for ideal ski angulation, the best place is right over the foot. Make a point with yourself to stay in awareness of where exactly the majority of your weight is falling. Is it the heel? Is it the outside of the foot? Always try to bring your weight to the ball of your foot and you will find that everything else falls into place.

3. Use your knees. A common mistake by people is to be afraid of gravity and not use their knees to absorb the sensation that comes with gliding down a mountain on a pair of skis. Skiing is a very dynamic sport of absorption. It is the bending of the knees that allows the body to go with the flow of the mountain. If this is hard for you, slow things down and over exaggerate the bending of the knees. With time it will feel more comfortable and will help you ski lines that you never dreamed possible.