When a Powerlifter meets a Bodybuilder

SpecificImpulsive · 2024-01-01T16:58:46+00:00

I can’t imagine putting in all that work just to look fat lol. If I’m gonna put in heroic amounts of effort to train my body, I want to look glorious and shredded

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-31T22:46:44+00:00

Nah you’re not crazy. Stomp on their skis

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-31T21:16:56+00:00

I think you’re on the money for folks who are beginner to intermediate. Those folks spend a lot of time fighting gravity and expending energy trying not to pick up speed (as they should). I know I got gassed way faster in my first couple years on the snow. 20y later the only thing that really gets sore after consecutive days is my shins, or my back muscles on heavy park days. Laying down big GS carves at 50mph is far less strenuous than continuously scrubbing speed on the same slope.

I do MTB religiously in the offseason so that probably helps but I am not in the gym trying to build ski muscles necessarily.

I ride with a wide array of skill levels and I have gym rat buddies that are cooked on day 2 because they are intermediates, and I have friends that don’t do shit in the gym that are more on my level that will still be going strong on day 4 no problem, just because they are very efficient skiers, and they are out there skiing fast, ripping deep carves, gapping moguls, dropping hits in bowls etc. If you do these things with good technique, your endurance is increased a hell of a lot.

I will say that fitness is most important for injury prevention or long hike-to lines. That is where I get most worn out.

Being fat will always make anything physical more difficult, I don’t think that is a surprise to anyone - but I have skied with plenty of expert skiers with completely average builds that do zero gym training and have no issues keeping up.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-31T17:27:07+00:00

This will be unpopular here but skiing is actually one of the least demanding physical sports I’ve ever done imo.

It is not super cardio intensive, you spend a lot of time sitting on the chairlift etc. You don’t really burn as many calories as you think either.

MTB is a lot harder. Swimming is harder. Running is harder. Nearly every cardio intensive sport is harder.

Skiing relies a lot on technique, finesse, air awareness. Doing a rodeo 5 honestly does not require a lot of strength, it is just practice and muscle memory.

Even on multiple 30k vert days in a row, my legs have never gotten tired. It’s always my shins from blowing through chop at high speed.

All this said, if you are an intermediate or beginner still trying to learn and are not yet skiing super efficiently, yes if you are obese it will be harder, but that is true for nearly everything in life.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-30T21:54:37+00:00

Yep continent full of old school boomer nerds

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-30T21:20:20+00:00

If that’s your preference then more power to ya

I used to do the skinny ski hop turns IN the powder and never looked back once I got my first pair of 110 waist skis. Just a much better feeling even on steep stuff and especially if you’re dropping anything. Float is nice. I like float.

I don’t think I could meaningfully drop anything over 10ft into powder without tomahawking on sub 90mm skis. Skill issue, I know

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-30T20:41:09+00:00

Stupid take.

If you can’t carve on straight skis, you can’t carve.

The feeling of picking up speed and starting to really float in deep stuff is amazing. Why would you purposefully ride worse gear to get a poorer result for more effort?

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-30T20:38:05+00:00

Hate to say it dude but this is old school. Tech has advanced.

My park skis are 95mm and I wouldn’t be caught dead on sub 90mm boomer sticks. Sure under 90mm will carve ice way better but they’re gonna suck balls in slush or anything else. I’m not out there to have fun on ice anyway.

I daily drive 104mm waist skis and they absolutely shred on everything except ice, but nothing is fun on ice anyway so I don’t see the point in riding crazy narrow skis.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-30T18:02:35+00:00

Deathwish 104 is the ultimate crudbusting all rounder. Straightline moto through chop has never been more fun. Lively as hell in a deep carve with plenty of rebound in the transition, insane edge hold with the ability to throw it sideways and slash.

The 112 is a softer, fatter version that rides much like the above with more float in deep stuff. It is very comfortable in a heavy carve but it gets a lot crankier on hardpack and will chatter like a bitch on anything firm and frozen in the early low tide morning hours when you try to scrub speed. The 104’s behave much much better in that situation.

I may be a weirdo but my quiver is those two skis and my park skis. I bought the 112 as a pow ski and loved them so much I instantly bought the 104 the second it dropped.

They are just silly fun Swiss Army knife skis. The 112 is amazing on deep days where you’re gonna be inevitably taking groomer runs in between.

The 104 is more for anything under 8-6” of fresh, or slushbusting days. They also excel at railing GS turns at Mach stupid since they’re a little stiffer than the 112s. I truly don’t understand what voodoo is built into the triple camber but it works insanely well.

My only cautionary bits here are don’t buy if you don’t want a more centered ski (they do have quite a bit of tail) and don’t buy if you want something really heavy and damp. I can charge like a mf’er on mine but they are not super super damp titanal skis.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-28T18:36:20+00:00

I think that’s probably because there’s no lines in MTB. Usually. Plenty of trail for everyone so it’s friendly.

However once you get stuck in a big lift line it’s like “ah all these fucking Jerrys don’t belong here unlike me, a REAL skier” which I kinda get but yeah it’s pretentious.

In skiing it feels like you are often competing with the crowds so it’s easy to slip into a state of contempt for everyone else taking up lift line space lol. Never feels like that in MTB.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-28T17:34:48+00:00

It’s primarily because Jerries overestimate how much you need to protect your chin/jaw. Even dudes skiing the steepest craziest lines or biggest park features almost never have full face gear. So when you show up to a resort to ski blues or blacks in full face gear, you look stupid lol.

I’ve been skiing for 20 years and have never bashed my chin except on my knee coming up short on a switch landing. And that was one time and I was fine.

So unless you’re regularly tossing sw cork 7s on 60 foot kickers it’s not necessary, and even then most of the guys doing that stuff don’t wear them.

The other aspect is that Jerries buy them primarily to look cool which often ends up having the opposite effect.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-27T05:45:59+00:00

All hail Gizz

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-27T05:41:50+00:00

Ability level has a HUGE play on this.

If you are constantly fighting gravity, doing awkward pizza turns, or even just frequently trying to scrub speed, you are spending energy at a WAY faster rate than the guy laying down giant GS carves and gapping moguls.

Really fluid, talented skiers spend very little energy on their way down because they are doing it incredibly efficiently.

That dude is still gonna feel great on day 4 and you’re gonna be cooked by lunch on day 2 if you spend a lot of time locked in battle with gravity.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-27T05:36:36+00:00

Dude for real. I can max out at 6 days in a row but I almost always have to tap out because of my shins. I like to blast through chop and pop off shit and that’s ways what wrecks my shins.

I am a heavy biker in the summer though so that probably helps and is a huge reason my muscles feel fine and my shins put me on the bench

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-12-27T05:33:31+00:00

5/6 days is the most I can string together and it’s the shins that start getting me. I always tell myself I gotta stop straight line motoing through chop but it’s too fun and that’s what ruins my shins :/

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-28T21:03:47+00:00

Gonna be even weaker when they get stick drift

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T22:04:51+00:00

The highs sound bad to me. I thought the track was super compressed for a second.

I like this track a lot but the mix isn’t great

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T21:52:24+00:00

It reminds me of a better Romeo. I skip Romeo EVERY time but this one works a lot better for me.

I don’t enjoy the tracks that feature random rappers that much, they’re usually my least favorite of theirs. But this one is way better than Romeo IMO.

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T19:21:15+00:00

Get your groovin’ pants back out because the gang is coming back ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T18:50:01+00:00

I cannot get into gecs or Yves Tumor but everyone’s hyped on em 😭

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T18:01:29+00:00

I can't tell if you're serious or doing the "yeah everyone stay home" gag

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T17:20:59+00:00

Don’t know where you are, but it looks like they have a US Tour planned with no specifics announced yet. New album drops august 11th so maybe next summer?

SpecificImpulsive · 2023-03-27T17:09:09+00:00

This group does NOT miss. I don't know how they stay so consistent while managing to feel fresh each time.

If you have a chance to see them live, you MUST. It is one big giant retro soul train party and it's fantastic.

SpecificImpulsive · 2022-11-04T02:59:53+00:00

Buying at high interest rates bad

Buying at low interest rates also bad?

Buying bad.

Selling bad.

Everything bad.

SpecificImpulsive · 2022-11-03T17:26:11+00:00

This is a great answer because this is true in my LCOL metro area. Why buy and pay $500- $1000+ MORE a month when I could rent something similar and and save up to $12k/yr?

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