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One
of the best all-around physical activities
for improving your health and fitness
just got better. What activity am
I talking about? It's cross-country
skiing! However,
what I'm about to tell you could change
the way you look at cross-country
skiing forever... [Note:
if you're not into cross-country skiing,
but have friends or family who are,
please pass this information on to
them - it has the potential to dramatically
improve their skiing and they will
have you to thank for turning them
onto it!] If
you've ever tried cross-country skiing,
you know exactly what I mean when
I say it's one of the best all-around
physical activities for improving
your health and fitness. It's truly
one of the most effective ways to
get your body into shape quickly.
Not only does it work practically
every muscle in your body, burning
large amounts of calories in short
periods of time, it is one of the
absolute best forms of exercise for
developing your cardiovascular system. I
think we all agree that cross-country
skiing is a great form of exercise,
but what do you do when there's no
snow on the ground? What if you live
where there is no snow? What if you
do if you have snow but there are
no trails close to you? Enter:
the CAT Ski. "CAT
Ski" stands for "Classic
All-Terrain Ski" and its goal
is to allow you to cross-country ski
on any terrain on almost any surface
in any season! Does the CAT Ski achieve
this goal? You're going to find out... Recently,
I met the inventor of the CAT Ski,
Dale Niggemann, at his manufacturing
facility in Wisconsin. After touring
the facility and learning how the
skis are made, I took a pair of CAT
Skis out for a "test drive." The
construction of the CAT Ski is deceptively
simple. At first glance, it appears
to be a fairly regular ski complete
with a sliding foot plate with strategically-placed
bungees attached to it. It
can be tricky to visualize just through
a written description alone but, basically,
you plant the ski on the ground and
your foot slides forward on the ski,
stretching the bungees. Then you do
the same thing with the other foot.
While you are doing it with the other
foot, you lift the ski off the ground,
removing your bodyweight from the
ski and the bungees pull the slider
back into the start position where
you can go again from there. In
essence, the ski itself isn't actually
sliding - you are sliding on top of
the ski, using the top surface of
the ski itself as snow instead of
sliding on the ground. Click
here to see a video demo of how the
CAT Ski works. Sliding
on the ski rather than the ground
is an extremely powerful and useful
concept - the bottom surface of the
CAT Ski is basically just a stable
surface upon which you slide. You
can place this stable surface on practically
ANY other surface, from pavement to
sand to grass to gravel and still
be able to slide freely on top of
the ski itself. The ski doesn't slide
on the ground - you slide on the ski! In
a nutshell, yes. The CAT Ski is extremely
effective in terms of not only mimicking
the "Classic" style of cross-country
skiing (the diagonal style you normally
associate with cross-country skiing,
as opposed to the "skating"
style), but also in terms of cardiovascular
benefits. Cross-country
skiing holds undeniable benefits to
the person interested in improving
their cardio capacity and losing bodyfat.
CAT Skiing, in my experience after
testing the CAT Ski as compared to
many years of cross-country skiing
on snow, is actually MORE challenging
to the cardiovascular system than
regular snow skiing. And, you can
do it anywhere, any season! You
will know you've done a workout when
you get done with a CAT Ski session!
It does get easier as you develop
your technique and get more comfortable
on the CAT Skis, but the challenge
is definitely still there as are the
tremendous cardiovascular benefits. I've
also found the CAT Ski to be an excellent
piece of equipment for teaching better,
more efficient cross-country skiing
technique. Let me put it this way...as
a former cross-country ski racer myself,
I felt I had reasonably good skiing
technique. After using the CAT Skis
for only half an hour, I could feel
EXACTLY how my technique could be
improved to dramatically increase
my skiing efficiency and speed. It
wasn't something that could be easily
explained or demonstrated with standard
teaching methods - the "feel"
of the CAT Ski and how it operated
actually taught me how to better transfer
power and improve my stride. The
CAT Ski will work best for you if
you are already comfortable with basic
cross-country skiing technique. The
more experienced a skier you are,
the easier the technique for the CAT
Ski will come to you. Unfortunately,
it's not a piece of equipment that
you will be able to jump on and immediately
start skiing down a dirt road like
it was snow. You can definitely achieve
that level of skill but it does require
some practice. The
first session is not going to be easy.
In fact, you will get a great workout
just learning the basic technique!
Once you've started picking up the
technique, improvements come quickly,
though, and those who are more recreational
skiers will certainly be able to benefit
greatly from the CAT Ski. If
you have never cross-country skied
before, however, this is honestly
probably not the equipment for you. But
if you are an avid cross-country skier,
interested in improving your skiing
technique, you're going to LOVE the
CAT Ski. It is an extremely powerful
piece of training equipment that can
help you dramatically improve your
technique in a very short amount of
time. It
will also help you get in and stay
in amazing shape for skiing year-round!
When you hit the ski trails in the
winter, you'll already be at the top
of your game. Is
the CAT Ski a useful piece of training
equipment? Absolutely. Is the CAT
Ski for everyone? Probably not. But
if you're familiar with cross-country
skiing and looking to make rapid improvements
in both technique and cardiovascular
capacity, the CAT Ski could be one
of the most powerful training tools
you have at your disposal. To
learn more about the CAT Ski, how
it works and where you can get a pair,
please visit (http://www.catskier.com)
now! Sisu
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