how to keep yourself fit and active while sailing
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How to Keep Yourself Fit and Active
While Sailing
One of the best things about applying for marine loans and getting
approved is the fitness benefit that sailing can bring a person. In fact,
even when one gives up living on land to spend much time sailing free
on blue waters, one can still be as fit, or even in a better physical state
and form than to stick to the land lifestyle where the every-other-day-
gym-routine is a huge part of.
Sailing in itself is a decent and a very effective form of exercise. Even
amateur sailors who are yet beginning to love catching the winds on their
sails and those who are yet learning to perfect their rigging are gaining
the benefit of being able to burn at least 150 calories per 30 minutes on
the vessel.
Basically, the activity is one where the muscles in the abdomen and in
the back, the neck and the shoulders, and the muscles in the arms and
hands are put into action. No wonder, it is quite a challenge to find
expert sailors who have poorly-toned muscles in these areas.
Note, however, that this toning of the muscles mentioned will not be as
evident on those who sail by catching and befriending the wind than
those who don’t. Sailors who opt to turn off the engine and let their sails
down, giving themselves the time and the chance to work their core
muscles, are of course the ones who get the most out of this fitness
benefit.
Now, if you don’t want to regret ending your membership on the local
gym to favour your boat finance repayments and your new found love for
sailing, think that you should really shake regret off your shoulders. This
is because even when your vessels make calls for the need for it to run
mostly on fuel than on wind.
Sailing gives you the best of all the chances to go swimming. And
swimming is one of the best forms of exercise. It puts the whole of your
body into action while sparing you from the worries of injury.
Ocean swimming, has been found to be more beneficial than swimming
in a pool. Ocean water contains high sodium content plus other trace
minerals which can drive toxins out of your body through the skin.
Calisthenics also offers you a very decent option at keeping yourself fit
and prim whilst sailing. You can perform a number of exercises that tone
and form any group of muscles in the body that you want to target.
The great thing about calisthenics is that you don’t have to worry about
boarding your weights and gym equipments on board just so you can
perform your routines. Should you ever need “workout equipments” it will
mostly be flex bands, bars and sticks that virtually weigh nothing.
The next time you see yourself worried about giving up your “active
lifestyle” because you’ll spend much of your “me time” sailing after your
boat finance Australia lender gives you the thumbs up, think that you
have at least 3 high-power fitness options to choose from.