get a decent harness...
its the bar pushing into your gut that makes them hurt unless your technique involves bending your body back in some grotesque shape...

lol, decent excludes seat harnesses... actually go for what ever you want

20 mins better harden up as a kitemare takes about 30 mins if u are lucky
50 sit ups three times a day do that till the end of jan
you will thank me

Now, I'm only a Newbie to Kitesurfing and know stuff all about it at the moment. In fact I can hardly get up on the board at the mo, But I am a Personal Trainer and have been in the fitness industry for years. Prob longer than most of you youngsters have been kiting. LOL

AND No amount of "Sit-Ups" will harden your ABS, Sit-ups are ONLY good for your EGO!!!!

You need to be doing "CRUNCHES" and variations of them. Your Abdominals can be trained every day, as they are the quickest recovering muscle in the body. BTW the abdominals are 1 muscle NOT upper Or lower abdominals as most people would think. It's just that when you work your abs you actually recruit muscle fibres at different stages of an exercise, which gives you the impression you are working upper or lower.

Anyway the moral of this story is: If you are getting sore abs, "GO WITH IT" that just means that you are working muscles you haven't worked before.

Your body will adjust and you'll have great looking abs as a result. That is of course if you don't have a layer of FAT covering them. HaHa!

Chopper says, "Harden the **** up!"

Kite through the pain barrier until you are used to it!

STOP being a big sissy!! BTW welcome to seabreeze

bellzz u got a lil girly wirly gut.. but dude just kite through it and as they all hav said.. harden the f*ck up! haha.. mine usd 2 get like that 2 and its because you use alot of weird muscles kiting that you probably didnt even know existed!! as he said kitecrzy if u read his message.. LOWER abs not upper abs/ rib cage! a harness wont make much difference.. and a seat slows down ur learning and stops you from being able to learn alot of tricks ay.

Beer will numb the pain of the abs...but cause you to react too late to prevent the kiteloop that crushes your kidneys.

I reckon' you may just have to get a little harder on yourself as mentioned, and life in general will be a lot easier. Especially kiting.

Did you know that the average Australian puts on a KG over Christmas and then takes a year to lose it?. If you don't lose it...guess what happens next year.

Merry Fat Arsed, Christmas to all the pagans out there.

bellz said...

kite through it!! and u will have abbs of steal just like mine!!!

AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Yuck Yuck Yuck Yuck cough spit vomit HAHAHAHa OMFG, <clutches chest and falls down dead from laughing too hard>

Good winds,

Do around 100 sit-ups (or crunches) each night- Whichever floats your boat.

I would suggest that moving to a waist harness (from a girls perspective) actually increases your use of your abs! Just keep battling through it and she'll be jake.