>Any personal trainers/paddlers out there? I am looking for advice on >exercises that will strengthen the muscles used during the Eskimo roll hip >snap. I'd suggest an old yoga/karate exercise where you lie on your side on the floor and lift both legs as high towards the ceiling as you can. If that's too hard to start with, lift just the top leg and work towards lifting both legs with sideways tipping of the hips. Whatever you do, do it slooooowly!! The slower you exercise the better your form will be, the safer it will be and the harder it will work you better, resulting in better results. Advice from a 64 year old strong fat guy, who spent a couple of years working as a personal trainer in a 24 Hour Fitness place. I wouldn't feel to sanguine about the degree of knowledge of the average personal trainer. 98% of those I knew didn't know _at_%^_at_ about exercise. I had to take all of 32 hours of training to get to be a "Certified Personal Trainer". If I didn't have a BA in Biology from Harvard I'd be just as ignorant as most of them are. At least 75% of the class time was spent learning how to con people into signing up for personal trainer sessions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net Go Sea Kayaking!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 13 2002 - 19:49:47 PDT
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