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Page 1: How to Keep Yourself Fit and Active While Sailing

How to Keep Yourself Fit and Active

While Sailing

Page 2: 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.

Page 3: How to Keep Yourself Fit and Active While Sailing

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.