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The Best Exercises to Prepare for Ski Season

Vail SkiThe Best Exercises To Prepare for Ski Season

Ski season is here! With A-Basin and Loveland ski areas open, and the others soon to follow, the following is a list of exercises to help you prepare for the 2011-2012 Ski Season!

  • Buy a new pair of gloves and immediately throw one away.
  • If you have children, buy at least 10 pairs of gloves and throw out all the right hands.
  • Soak your gloves in water and store them in the freezer prior to every use.
  • If you wear glasses, begin wearing them with glue smeared on the lenses.
  • Throw away a $100 dollar bill - now.
  • Start wearing a helmet as part of your daily outfit.
  • Find the nearest ice rink and walk across the ice 20 times in your ski boots carrying two pairs of skis, accessory bag and poles.
  • Pretend you are looking for your car… for at least 30 minutes.
  • Sporadically drop things, chapstick, glasses, money, driver license, keys etc.
  • Place a small but angular pebble in your shoes, line the shoes with crushed ice, and then tighten a C-clamp around your toes.
  • Go to McDonald's and insist on paying $10.50 for a hamburger.
  • Be sure you are in the longest line at every available opportunity.
  • Drive slowly for five hours - anywhere - as long as it's in a snowstorm and you're following an 18 wheeler.
  • Fill a blender with ice, hit the pulse button and let the spray blast your face…Leave the ice on your face until it melts…Let it drip into your clothes.
  • Clip a lift ticket to the zipper of your jacket and ride a motorcycle fast enough to make the ticket lacerate your face.
  • Dress up in as many clothes as you can possibly put on, and then proceed to take them off because you have to go to the bathroom.
  • Slam your thumb in a car door…Don't go see a doctor.


Repeat all of the above every Saturday and Sunday until it's time for the real thing!

Posted Thursday Oct 20