10 Reasons To Add Rollerskiing To Your Life

10 Reasons To Add Rollerskiing To Your Life

Gear News, Newsfeed, Trivia
...Seen those men and women with bodies of athletes and stamina of ostrich? Those are pro cross country skiiers. What's the secret of their remarkable physical shape? Well, there are many – they ski, they bike, they run cross country, the lift weights – but probably the biggest part of their training is spent doing something that many still find exotic – they rollerski! We are not preaching here to already converted – it is out firm belief that those who tried rollerskiing, shall never stop coming back to it. For those fortunate ones, however, who are yet to experience one of the biggest pleasures of their lives – but don't quite know it yet, here are 10 Reasons To Add Rollerskiing To Your Life, plain & simple 1/ the…
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Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

Gear News, Money & Finance, Newsfeed
Cross country skiing is a technical sport where both the results and the fun of participating benefits hugely from advances of technology ( unless you're a die-hard retro race fan). Sadly, the size of the market for cross country skiing is a shadow of its fancy cousin, alpine skiing – and much smaller than, say, running or biking. Which means the innovations are headed first to them, where the fatter profits are to be made. Let's take a look at some of the latest – and dream that one day we, "the real skiers", could get similar. 1/Recon Snow2 Manufacturer says: A powerful omnifuncional computer in compact form and heads-up display, that attaches inside an alpine ski helmet and projects the data direct-to-eye, in real time. Without obstructing one's point…
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Most Successful Skier Ever Turned 50!

Most Successful Skier Ever Turned 50!

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Bjørn Dæhlie turned 50 this week! Amazingly, this news had very little play in the English language media – which is totally wrong & we try to fill that gap. The Norwegian made history in three different ways First, as an outstanding sportsman. In fact, the most outstanding of all of them, winter sports practitioners, with 8 Olympic and 9 world championship gold medals ( including relays) in cross country skiing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlFY6YwQEW8 Secondly, as a supremely developed individual - Dæhlie once measured a VO2 max of 96 ml/kg/min (  millilitres of oxygen per kilogram ) - unsurpassed world record for a decade until a cyclist Oscar Svensden measured a mind-boggling VO2 max of 97.5 a few years ago. Thirdly, Bjørn Dæhlie is the richest cross country skier ever – and thus a shining example to…
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