Ohhh S#*t do you really have to do that in winter.
I thought you put weight on in the winter so you did not become anerxic during the summer kiting.

Abs? I think I got 1 of those. 1 really big 1!!!

I thought I could cut em up to 6 with the use of kiting??? Let me know if im kidding myself

i walk to the pub for exercise and drink guinness, its good for you after all.
i also have a passion for pies, meat pies in particular.
I am fat
My skin is grey
and i am unfit
and i plan to do nothing about it except drink more guinness and eat more pies.

My wife suggested a personal trainer - mainly because my paunch was so big it could hold down a waist harness hooked into 3 kites - leaving me 2 hands free to shovel in donuts.
When I mentioned to the trainer that I was into kitesurfing, it gave him something to concentrate on. Apart from a gut with its own postcode that is.
From 30 sessions this is what I've learned...
Core Strength - kiting is all about this - the midsection is where the power is delivered from the kite and then distributed through the rest of your body. The more strength and endurance you have in this part of your body, the better you'll kite.
Excercises for this include the regular abs excercises, crunches, leg lifts etc but what also surprised me is that kicks - in fact all types of martial arts translate in to directly to better performance on the water. Not sure which martial arts are best, but Boxing Training is also something which builds on core strength really fast. My advice - get down to the local dojo and throw some schnap kicks to the head mate You'll be kiting like Aaron Hadlow in weeks.
Jumping up and down on a platform at about knee level (starting and finishing with slightly bent knees ) is great for training the quads to absorb chop and still have something left for jumps. Chin up, chest up, back straight... The trainer said something about training for lactic acid buildup and pushing through it, though by the time I have done about 20 I'm bleeding from the eyes, and by 30 I'm pretty sure I've urinated myself.... but I did notice a huge effect on the water after doing this excercise over the past few months.

The great thing is that up here in Cairns, Winter IS the kiting season, so while you're all layering up and going to the gym, we're still out throwing down huge moves in nothing more than zinc cream and budgie smugglers (of course we keep a hook knife and spare sock in the harness - just in case)

From the rowing machine at the gym you can watch the babes bouncing up and down on the step machines. Don't know if it keeps me fit, but it feels good, do it.

Surf in Winter, kite in Summer, swim in between and have looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootttttttttttttttttssssssssss of funky sex with a beautiful girl, then your stoke levels will be permanently cranked to high

I'll be staying fit this winter by having to run (to cold to walk) everywhere. No money for fuel for the car

Just paid for 3 new toys for summer!!

Seriously, yoga is great and I'll be working on building my overall fitness and strength.

The best training for kiting is a 4 hour sessions on the water!

When I heard that 6 packs were cool, I thought "fantastic" my 30 can block means I am 5 times as cool!

Classic! - I thought most kiters would be fitness nuts so you could do the stuff in the magazines! I'm training hard to keep fit .. it's one of those things where you starting training to get fitter, but then find out that you really enjoy the training, so you exercise for fun (with the bonus of having a better time on the briney!)

Haha..might try selling Seabreeze.com.au branded chocolate & beer through the site!!

It is important to have vocation-specific training. In the lead-up to summer, I will make sure my carrying-kite-and-board-upwind muscle groups are finely honed. I'll start off with doing a few laps of Pelican point, then run the length of Lucky Bay. Then I'll be able to complete a Scarborough-to-Leighton walk-of-shame marathon.

I will be tough - and beyond shame.

Then I will buy a 5th line and exercise my untangling-on-the-beach muscles.

(I'm still trying to remember where the "schnap kicks to the head mate" line comes from-- is it Guido Hatzis or Fat Pizza?)

BLOWN AWAY

Please marry me you sound delicious.
I too have breasts, filled to brimming with succulent milk to satisfy.

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When i'm not shovelling donuts down my gob i'm usually kiting. My kiting doesn't stop over winter... it picks up. Infact i find bodyfat a handy thing during winter kitiing.

Being fat is good. I look a like a pregnant pamela anderson with all that bludda flappin around. The paunch is lookin good (6 packs??... what r they??? Just one real big one..... which is as white as snow).

I have enough bodyfat to gimme some sizeable tits. top that off with a hairy bellybutton and a fat white ass with dimples and a tan line to make Homer Simpson green with envy and i'm one helluva sexy beast .

I don't believe in exercise. i'm too lazy to do that sorta stuff. I spend all my time shovelling high calorie goodies dripping with fat and pumped full of sugar down my cakehole so when i'm typin all my BS and drivel in various forums my ass has totally swallowed the chair.

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thats just scary BLOWN AWAY - you sound like my ex girlfriend <shudders>

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Mark...

now ur ex sounds scarry!! jk

later - no wind again this week by the look of things - not for ages... not good 4 me when I need the practice...

better winds 4 all...

Elizabeth - Wello Grommit