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06-01-2017, 05:38
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Boat: 36' Cape Dory
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Working Out While Underway
I know it's a lot of work to provision / load cases of Two Buck Chuck, but wondering what everyone does for exercise while underway?
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06-01-2017, 06:45
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Grampian 26, Mercury 15, Formosa 41
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Not to sound like too much of a hippy, but some simple yoga really makes a lot of sense on a boat. I also incorporate aikido drills called aiki taiso, and do a bit of high speed bokken kata in a spot of the cockpit where the rigging doesn't get in the way. I do a lot of the standard body weight exercises too, sit ups, hanging pushups, pushups with feet raised up on the companionway boards, crunches, squats, etc. I had a set of weights on the boat but never wound up using them.
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06-01-2017, 07:23
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Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Do 12 oz curls count?
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06-01-2017, 07:30
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Location: Cowichan Bay, BC (Maple Bay Marina)
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Re: Working Out While Underway
You don't think moving the boat counts? It's when you're anchored or docked that exercise is needed, so that is no different than being in a house. Whatever floats your boat then should still be applicable.
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06-01-2017, 08:08
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
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Re: Working Out While Underway
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Originally Posted by Stu Jackson
You don't think moving the boat counts? It's when you're anchored or docked that exercise is needed, so that is no different than being in a house. Whatever floats your boat then should still be applicable.
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Which is why I believe coastal cruising can be a decent workout.
You get the workout from the motion of the boat and winching etc then once at your destination there's kayaking, hiking, swimming, diving on the boat, foraging for food (going to the nearest store for more beer) etc...........
Then if you end up at an exposed anchorage, there's the workout of trying to stay in your berth while attempting to sleep
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06-01-2017, 08:43
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Laying Palmetto, Fl.
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Re: Working Out While Underway
I found a heavy duty elastic band was great for arms & shoulders. The kind found at a gym...Big 5 carries them I believe.
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06-01-2017, 08:51
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bend, OR
Boat: Brewer designed Pacific 43 in fiberglass. Center cockpit set up for long-distance single handing.
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Ocean sailing is perhaps the best workout unto itself you will likely ever encounter. The constant act of holding on, sheeting in and out, hoisting this that and the other thing will leave you fit as a fiddle in no time. Couple this exercise with an initial lack of appetite and you'll see the pounds melt away. Even in your sleep your body will be working out.
Edited to add: I see Thomm225 beat me to the post
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06-01-2017, 08:52
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Kingston Ont Canada
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Re: Working Out While Underway
The sailing lifestyle is workout enough for me...always exhausted by the end of the day. And if that's not enough, there are always lots of places on a boat to do push-ups, chin-ups, and sit-ups. Or grab a 4 litre bottle of water for some curls and upper body work. I agree with the previous poster who recommended yoga. Stretching is what's needed while on a boat.
I should mention I have never used a windlass (and I anchor a lot, sometimes several times in one day), and although I eventually bought an outboard for the dinghy, I prefer to row about and leave the outboard on the rail.
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06-01-2017, 09:07
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Kingston Ont Canada
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Re: Working Out While Underway
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Originally Posted by seasick
Ocean sailing is perhaps the best workout unto itself you will likely ever encounter. The constant act of holding on, sheeting in and out, hoisting this that and the other thing will leave you fit as a fiddle in no time. Couple this exercise with an initial lack of appetite and you'll see the pounds melt away. Even in your sleep your body will be working out.
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I lost about 30 pounds crossing the atlantic, and still felt exhausted weeks later.
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06-01-2017, 09:10
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Newport, Rhode Island
Boat: Cheoy Lee, Luders 36
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Re: Working Out While Underway
A few years ago I bought my son a very nice set of exercise bands. They came in a nice bag, have handles, allow for pretty much all exercise routines. Simulates weights from 5lbs up to 50lbs by combining some bands. I am buying a set for the boat. That and I run in every port. Not fast, just run around looking at stuff, where to eat, where to shop, etc.
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06-01-2017, 09:21
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Newport, Rhode Island
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Re: Working Out While Underway
I pray almost constantly while sailing. Pray for safety, pray for good decision making, pray for everybody else in this world as most have more problems than I.
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06-01-2017, 09:21
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
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Posts: 12,822
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Underway nothing. But in port I go to the gym.
Resistance exercise is very I.portant as we get older.
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06-01-2017, 09:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Kingston Ont Canada
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Re: Working Out While Underway
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Originally Posted by Sailsarefull
I pray almost constantly while sailing. Pray for safety, pray for good decision making, pray for everybody else in this world as most have more problems than I.
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Although I am not religious at all, I will say a prayer under my breath that the rig does not fail when the wind is blowing hard, or that the engine continues to run when I find myself powering into a big sea, fighting a strong current, or just in a tight situation.
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06-01-2017, 09:42
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Probably in an anchorage or a boatyard..
Boat: Ebbtide 33' steel cutter
Posts: 5,030
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Quote:
Originally Posted by seasick
Ocean sailing is perhaps the best workout unto itself you will likely ever encounter. The constant act of holding on, sheeting in and out, hoisting this that and the other thing will leave you fit as a fiddle in no time. Couple this exercise with an initial lack of appetite and you'll see the pounds melt away. Even in your sleep your body will be working out.
Edited to add: I see Thomm225 beat me to the post
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Don't think I've been in those oceans
Turning the page on a kindle doesn't quite cut it.
Only certain muscles seem to get use when at sea for weeks, just walking up the hill to find immigration can have a few which haven't seen any action for a while complaining. I'd step up and down from the lockers to the cockpit sole five, ten minutes a couple of times a day which seems to help.
And don't forget on extended passage is an ideal place to workout the mind as well with meditation
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06-01-2017, 10:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Cleveland, Oh.
Boat: cal29
Posts: 92
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Re: Working Out While Underway
Now your talking, Chief
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