Improving grip/upper body strength

Originally posted by Grumpf berating the kitesurfers

   Chin ups...

It must be fitness day allround today, this will be the third fitness thread I've posted on, here's what I told the kitesurfers 

earlier today...(they probably love me as much as you lot do   )

Originally posted by Grumpf berating the kitesurfers

Run as a warm up.

Then do the exercise cycle, situps, pressups, chin ups, burpees as a recovery in between each. Do as many as you can in a 

minute then a minute recovery.

Your target? If you want to live to be old and fit like us windsurfers

50 Sit ups per session X 3 sessions

25 Press ups " "

10 Chin ups

25 Burpees, each times 3 with a minute in between for recovery. Or you could use skipping in between as you get fitter 

during the minute off.

Do it 3 times a week and the warm up run before you start sshould be twenty minutes at least.

Ride a mountain bike offroad whenever you can they're always good for stomach and leg muscles and if you push up hills 

you go anaerobic, not that you need that for kite surfing but it helps general fitness.

Rowing machines are also ok if a little boring but serve as a good warm up.

And if you've never done any of that stuff before divide the number by 10 to start with, we don't want any of you kite 

ladies having a heart attack do we?

And yes I did at your age every week in the off season, now, not quite so often but press ups every day, bike every day and 

rowing machine if I feel like it.. I shall probably start back into it in the build up to the clocks going forward..