Doormat

Get some doormat you don't really need anymore.
If you want "easy", cut it down to maybe eight or
ten inches wide. If you want "more difficult"
leave it as it is, probably sixteen inches wide or so.
Draw a centerline down the length of it.

Lay it on the floor, and in bare or stocking feet,
stand on one side of the mat, with both feet held
together, hands extended (in general maintaining
a basic skiing stance), look straight ahead and
jump both feet (held together) to the other side
of the mat. Because of the bare feet, you can
feel if you've cleared the mat. Now jump back to
the side you started from. Be sure to completely
clear the mat each time.

The idea is to repeat the jumps from one side of
the mat to the other in rapid fashion, while still
maintaining good skiing form, the basic body
position.

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat. In other words, your body stays
in one place above the mat, only your legs move
side to side as you jump both feet across the mat
and back again.

Repeat one hundred times in a row, and report
back with comments.

You don't need no stinkin ski machine. All you
need is a doormat.

Actually I'm only kidding about the 100 times in a
row. If you can do it five times in a row and hold
form, you're doing OK. Take it easy when you
do this and build up to more reps slowly.

foot2foot wrote:
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One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a dozen
jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer out of
the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is *below* the
center line I drew on the matt.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

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//-Walt
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foot2foot wrote:
snip details of exercise program

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

Walt" wrote in message

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a dozen
jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer out of
the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is *below* the
center line I drew on the mat.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

--
//-Walt

If you can get a dozen jumps in over a 16 inch
doormat in rapid fashion, clearing the mat each
time, and maintain good form (hands extended,
feet and knees together, eyes forward) while
keeping your belly button centered over the center
line of the mat, you don't need to worry about
much else.

I can't do twelve in a row holding perfect form.
I fall apart after about the third or fourth.

.. .

Foot, is it my imagination or have you managed to make your lines a bit longer?

ant

In , Walt typed:
foot2foot wrote:
snip details of exercise program

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a
dozen jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer
out of the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is
*below* the center line I drew on the matt.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

Move the beer above the doormat


--
Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

www.suffolkvikings.org.uk

MoonMan wrote:

In , Walt typed:
foot2foot wrote:
snip details of exercise program

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a
dozen jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer
out of the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is
*below* the center line I drew on the matt.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

Move the beer above the doormat

I tried that, but it keeps spilling when I jump.
Plus the doormat does a lousy job of keeping it cold.
Any other ideas?

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//-Walt
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in article , ant at
wrote on 9/24/03 11:55 PM:

Foot, is it my imagination or have you managed to make your lines a bit
longer?

ant
Kerrison, is it my imagination or have you managed to stop being a
psychopathic bitch?

In , Walt typed:
MoonMan wrote:

In , Walt typed:
foot2foot wrote:
snip details of exercise program

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a
dozen jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer
out of the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is
*below* the center line I drew on the matt.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

Move the beer above the doormat

I tried that, but it keeps spilling when I jump.
Plus the doormat does a lousy job of keeping it cold.
Any other ideas?

Move the Fridge above the doormat, get a length of plastic tubing place one
end in the bottle of beer and the other in your mouth


--
Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

www.suffolkvikings.org.uk

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:57:16 -0400, Walt
wrote:

MoonMan wrote:

In , Walt typed:
foot2foot wrote:
snip details of exercise program

One more thing, once you get going, be sure to
keep your belly button above the center line you
drew on the mat.

This is where I lose it with this exercise program. After about a
dozen jumps I get the urge to go down to the basement and get a beer
out of the cooler, and that's when I notice that my belly button is
*below* the center line I drew on the matt.

Happens every time. Any ideas how to correct it?

Move the beer above the doormat

I tried that, but it keeps spilling when I jump.
Plus the doormat does a lousy job of keeping it cold.
Any other ideas?

Depends. Do you actually get the urge to "go down to the basement and
get a beer out of the cooler"? Or is it more simply the urge to have
a beer? Is this about the voyage, or the destination?

I'm guessing it's about the voyage, much like skiing itself, where
it's about the act of descending, rather than the arrival at the
bottom. If this is the case, you should carpet the stairs with plenty
of padding, and then descend by hopping down with your feet together,
from the left side of one tread to the right side of the next lowest,
then to the left side of the next, etc. until you reach the bottom,
at which point you loudly congratulate yourself (preferably in a Texas
accent) on having nailed that bump run, and have your well-deserved
beer.

If it's about the destination, just put the damn doormat in front of
the cooler. As for the spillage, that's because you have too much
upper-body movement; your upper torso, shoulders and beer hand should
be relatively static while your legs do all the moving. When you can
get through the beer with no spilling, you'll know you're ready for
the season.

bw

bdubya wrote:

... you should carpet the stairs with plenty
of padding, and then descend by hopping down with your feet together,
from the left side of one tread to the right side of the next lowest,
then to the left side of the next, etc. until you reach the bottom,


Well, plenty of padding may be just fine if you wanna prep yourself for
western skiing, but I think I'd be better off polishing the stairs to a
hard luster and maybe even coating it with soapy water for that Eastern
Firm (TM) workout. And I probably need to close half of it off as the
basement stairwell is a bit wide.

But the real question is: will going down an entire flight of stairs
over-train me for the Michigan hills?

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