Do you go to the gym? A good trainer can recommended exercises to strengthen weak areas.Any tips for aging tele knees?
In general, hamstrings are important for supporting knees. Learned that during knee rehab about a decade ago. Also worked with a personal trainer during pre-season for several years, with an emphasis on ski conditioning and knee support. Often we used the TRX.Any tips for aging tele knees?
I hear you, sister! I’m 73, don’t have osteoporosis yet, but am accumulating minor ligament injuries. Also exercising, focusing on general health, because skiing is life! I’m also hedging my bets by engaging more in cross country skiing, bought a pair of really good snowshoes, started kicksledding, just to ensure that if I can’t downhill ski as often as I do now in the future, I will still be active and having fun! You will still be in the game!I'm 70 and until recently I thought I would ski until 80+.
But my osteoporosis diagnosis and my recent injury have me wondering. I hope that taking Prolia improves my bones. I will have had 4 shots by the time I'm due for my next bone density scan in June.
In the meantime I am exercising and dreaming about the coming ski season.
You've got this @skibum4ever I have full faith that you will be skiing until your 80+I'm 70 and until recently I thought I would ski until 80+.
But my osteoporosis diagnosis and my recent injury have me wondering. I hope that taking Prolia improves my bones. I will have had 4 shots by the time I'm due for my next bone density scan in June.
In the meantime I am exercising and dreaming about the coming ski season.
Wait until you ski with Caroline!!!
The NY Times has an article about the folks still skiing advanced terrain in their 70s and 80s. The "Wild old Bunch" at Alta is featured. I chatted with a few of them last April when I was meeting up at Alf's mid-morning with a schoolmate who is over 80 now. She's a regular attendee at our school's alumni gathering at Alta Lodge in April. Her ski/travel buddy is in his 70s. While she sticks to groomers these days, he does not.
March 16, 2024
These Skiers Are Still Chasing Powder in Their 80s and 90s
For the Wild old Bunch of Alta, Utah, getting older means more time for the mountain. And anyone over 80 skis free.www.nytimes.com
Unfortunately those drugs don't really help bone strength. They appear to by bone density tests but the density is all at the outer part of the bone and the inside is more brittle. Must better is Vit D+K, weight training, vibration plates, etc.I'm 70 and until recently I thought I would ski until 80+.
But my osteoporosis diagnosis and my recent injury have me wondering. I hope that taking Prolia improves my bones. I will have had 4 shots by the time I'm due for my next bone density scan in June.
In the meantime I am exercising and dreaming about the coming ski season.
such an awesome article!
The NY Times has an article about the folks still skiing advanced terrain in their 70s and 80s. The "Wild old Bunch" at Alta is featured. I chatted with a few of them last April when I was meeting up at Alf's mid-morning with a schoolmate who is over 80 now. She's a regular attendee at our school's alumni gathering at Alta Lodge in April. Her ski/travel buddy is in his 70s. While she sticks to groomers these days, he does not.
March 16, 2024
These Skiers Are Still Chasing Powder in Their 80s and 90s
For the Wild old Bunch of Alta, Utah, getting older means more time for the mountain. And anyone over 80 skis free.www.nytimes.com
this is beautiful...and at the age of 69, is exactly how I feel. Every run is beautiful, and a gift...I love carving turns on groomed trails, taking in the views from the summit, biting into a great sandwich at lunchtime with truly earned hunger, and zooming with my friends. I'll be skiing for as long as I can!Have any of you read this? It's from SeniorSkiing.com:
My Ego As A Senior Skier
Marc Liebman
The aging process does weird things to the mind. We remember days of yesteryear winding down through moguls on a steep run all day, thinking it was fun. Or floating through knee-deep powder all day from when the lifts open until they close. Today, in my dotage, when confronted with a steep pitch full of knee-high, well-rounded moguls, I go around. Or, after two long runs through knee- or thigh-deep powder, my legs say we’re done for the day. The mind is willing, but the body says, “Hell no.”
Unfortunately, I don’t live near a ski area where I can ski seven days a week. Each year, I work hard to get in less good shape than the previous year. And, what trainers tell me, getting into good skiing shape gets harder with every coming year. The message is that you can’t beat Father Time.
So why ski? Given the image the marketing folks want to portray, if one is not blasting through the trees in deep powder, or bouncing through the moguls, or leaping off rocks, one right after the other, why do I ski?
Because I love it. At 78, my ego no longer needs to be fed by a run through knee- deep moguls or skiing fast down a double diamond. Instead, I enjoy making a round carved turn that controls my speed on any pitch. I now only ski on groomed runs no matter how steep and stay out of trails that look like a hockey rink, bumps and now, even glades unless they are wide open. Nor do I ski in soft, mushy, clumpy snow. So what?
Now I take my time, stopping more often. Each run is precious because it may be my last – not because of death, but because of injury. Like most senior skiers, I am most afraid of being injured by an out-of-control skier who is either stoned, inebriated, skiing
way too fast for the conditions, on a run well beyond his/her ability, or a combination of all the above.
My bones no longer break; they are more likely to shatter. A simple fracture that will heal in a 40-year-old body in a month or two may take major surgery and heal in six or more months if it ever does. So, yes, I am careful where and what I ski and in what
conditions.
I even find myself taking in the vistas around me. There’s not a photograph that does justice to the majesty of snow-covered mountains, whether in Vermont, California, New Mexico, British Columbia, Austria, or New Zealand. There’s nothing like breathing in the cold, crisp air while giving your thighs a breather and admiring the work of Mother Nature.
Double diamond, expert, intermediate, beginner, if it is groomed, I’m in. To me, the degree of difficulty of the trail is irrelevant.
My ego is in doing what I must to keep skiing for as long as Father Time allows. My ego is the simple act of being able to turn a pair of skis and carve a turn in any condition I choose.
My ego is in the fact that I am skiing, not what I am skiing.
That was a fun article!!! I retired last fall and I’ve celebrated this winter by doing 3 ski camps! (Alta Lodge and Jackson Steep & Deep + Lady Shred—-all were terrific).
The NY Times has an article about the folks still skiing advanced terrain in their 70s and 80s. The "Wild old Bunch" at Alta is featured. I chatted with a few of them last April when I was meeting up at Alf's mid-morning with a schoolmate who is over 80 now. She's a regular attendee at our school's alumni gathering at Alta Lodge in April. Her ski/travel buddy is in his 70s. While she sticks to groomers these days, he does not.
March 16, 2024
These Skiers Are Still Chasing Powder in Their 80s and 90s
For the Wild old Bunch of Alta, Utah, getting older means more time for the mountain. And anyone over 80 skis free.www.nytimes.com