Cross country skiing

20Sep 2017 by DS News Team

Read This If You Are Skier With Love Handles Issue

Time to confess: how many an amateur Nordie have you come across sporting a bit of a stomach, spilling over that tight waistband of his Lycra-enhanced ski racing suit? And does that include the man you see every day in the mirror? If you are one of us, perennial “love handles” fighters – rejoice! Because the good scientists at the Columbia University Medical Center have just come up with a skin patch that dissolves the said 'love handles' – in overfed mice so far, but that's a start, ain't it? According to the story in Science Daily, quoting the authors of the research, “Microneedle skin patch that delivers fat-shrinking drug locally could be used to treat obesity and diabetes”. "Not all fat is equal," says Professor Alexander Pfeifer from the…

15Sep 2017 by DS News Team

Legkov Repeats Personal Best In Test. First Salvo In Psy War Fired?

Leaders

Boxing great Vitali Klitschko once said “the fight begins long before the first bell” John McEnroe made a comment on his opponent-to-be that people remember decades after: "I've got more talent in my pinkie than ( Ivan) Lendl has in his whole body" While commonplace in martial arts and other pro-sports with huge payday check, psychological pressure & attacks on opponent (s) is not normally associated with cross country skiing. Or is it by now? Perhaps, the first salvo of the Olympic season was fired today https://www.instagram.com/p/BZD16_-Hprc/ The comment to the video posted by Egor Sorin, an assistant to Markus Cramer ( and world-class skier on his own right) reads: 2 tests today: the first to determine aerobic/anaerobic treshhold, the second - maximum exertion. @alexanderlegkov has repeated his personal best…

14Sep 2017 by DS News Team

Op-Ed: I Am Amateur Skier But I Always Buy Top Line Gear

Newsfeed

EDITORIAL COMMENT BY THE DAILYSKIER: We neither endorse nor disagree with a point of view expressed here. But we believe that the author ( who insisted on anonymity) had some interesting things to say. Published with minimum editing, trimmed for length. Enjoy What you about to read are personal observations and ideas, not an attempt to show off or some kind of trolling. I shall not waste your time with my personal story of coming to cross country skiing because I don't think anybody really cares. Or maybe I will one day – anyway, I'd like to talk about something anybody could associate with – buying skiing gear & accessories. There will be no specific advise and no brands or models mentioned by name – first, it's not an advertorial,…

13Sep 2017 by DS News Team

(Some Of ) Most Exotic Innovations In Cross Country Skiing

Trivia

..Once in a while there is a new invention, some exotic device that is meant to give a skier that much talked about "winning margin". Most of those invention have come and gone. Some, however, could be purchased if you really wish so. Here is our selection of the most outstanding ones: 1.Nordic Torpedo. Glide Wax Testing Tool 'Traditional race ski selection glide-out tests are time consuming and generally not cool'. That must have been the logic behind invention of something called Nordic Torpedo. The device has Ultra High Molecular Weight polyethylene-covered surface, similar to real skis – except that it's used on four sides. The idea is simple and quite elegant: instead of waxing up four pairs of skis for for glide-out , you wax four sides of single…

11Sep 2017 by The Daily Skier Editorial

Know-How From Sweden: Executive Ski Club For True Achievers

Training & Outfitting

Cross country skiing is changing and evolving. It's no longer the sport practiced in faraway snow wilderness by a few of "the strong silent type". We all got used in the last couple of decades to snowcat-groomed trails, warm changing rooms – even to pasta-parties at the finish line. What did not change – and never will – is that cross country skiing more than any other sport demands determination, strong will, character to overcome difficulties, ability to shut that lazy man inside yourself. Plus careful preparations and good tactics. ...Wait a second, isn't that a set of essential qualities straight out of "How to Become a Successful Executive" book? That must have crossed Swedish entrepreneur and top amateur athlete (11 Vasaloppets, 4 Marcialongas and 2 IronMan races) Fredrik Erixon's…

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