The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
The hosts Mitch and Bart discuss fitness, fatherhood, and guy stuff to help men live a great life, have fun, laugh, and get a little more fit in this weekly Podcast.
The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
Fitness for the Slopes: Winter Ski Tips and Family Fun
Ever wondered why eggs don't tell jokes and what Humpty Dumpty's royal status is all about? Join us as we crack open the ski season with a laugh and gear up for what promises to be a record-breaking year on the slopes! While excitement mounts, we can't ignore the potential for mishaps, particularly those dreaded ACL tears. Drawing from our own misadventures, we stress the importance of stability and the art of not falling on your face in front of your kids. Get ready to embrace the thrill of skiing with tips on mastering both the slopes and your dignity.
Preparation is key, folks! We reveal our secret recipe for a successful family ski trip by focusing on both the body and the mind. Think of skiing as a high-stakes sport, much like soccer or basketball, where leg strength and cardiovascular fitness are your best allies. We’re throwing some practical exercises your way—air squats and punter kicks, anyone? And if you're bringing the kiddos along, ski schools are a game-changer, giving them professional guidance and you some well-deserved freedom. Learn how to make the most of your ski day with our insider tips.
Safety harnesses more than just helmets; it's about crafting unforgettable family memories. Discover strategies for managing costs, like snatching up used rental skis, and why investing in personal ski boots is a comfort game-changer. As we share tales from a snowy adventure in Park City, Utah, the importance of balancing adventure with caution becomes clear. From unexpected spills to heartwarming hot chocolate moments, it's all about savoring the journey. So, gear up for safety, fun, and some hilarious stories along the way that ensure your family ski trip is one for the books.
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Welcome to Dad, bods and Dumbbells. Thanks for listening or watching. Wherever you listen or watch podcasts.
Speaker 2:We don't. This isn't going to be watched.
Speaker 1:I'm Mitch.
Speaker 2:I'm Bart.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening, guys All right, let's get going.
Speaker 2:We've got a couple of things today. First of all, we've got to do our Dad Bod joke. Come on now.
Speaker 1:Dad Bod joke. Absolutely, bart, this one's gonna really bad joke coming up, this one's gonna get you coming in hot. All right, uh. Why don't eggs tell jokes?
Speaker 2:why don't eggs tell jokes? Uh, because their yolk is I don't know, honestly, close.
Speaker 1:You were close. I mean you could have said they don't have any yolks, or you could have said the answer, which is they might crack up so you get it because they're eggs and you crack them. You got to be careful, because if they told a joke, they might crack, they might crack up. Here's the other side note. Do you remember the fairy tale about? Uh, humpty, dumpty, yeah?
Speaker 2:down on the wall. Yeah, had a great fall.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, all the king's horses and all the king men's could have put humpty the other again. Yeah, do you know that humpty dumpty's the king?
Speaker 2:is he?
Speaker 1:yeah, this is the first time in my like I saw this meme or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, forget the internet he's not just some rando. No, that's what I figured it was like oh, all the king's horses and all the king's men he is the king right, it's crazy. There you go. Hey, perspective humpty dumpty, not a slouch, he's king, he's king.
Speaker 1:That's why, on his wall, tell everybody what to do probably like all the shrek and the puss in boots and those movies kind of like opened up fairy tales to a lot of imagination. So I'm there, but man today. I'm excited to talk about a few things, bart. I think we have a lot of things coming up.
Speaker 2:It's November, it's the month of November. You know what's coming Snow.
Speaker 1:Snow Exactly, and we are at a point in our life where skiing and snowboarding, the sport of skiing and snowboarding, the sport of skiing and snow, is at its all-time high. It's basically going to be the most record-breaking ski season of the year.
Speaker 2:I read this I don't, I don't, I can't qualify that at all, but but I do know. I just mean, like, whether or not people show up en masse to go ski this winter is debatable, but regardless, those who do, you know a lot of people are going to get injured, more so than pickleball.
Speaker 1:Dude, it's worse man.
Speaker 2:So we got to make sure, this is what we're going to do today. We're going to help the people out, help those dads out there, all you dad, bods and all your, your spouses.
Speaker 1:We're going to try to help prevent those ACL tears, because that is huge.
Speaker 2:Or just too many multiple falls and just you know, just looking bad. I don't want you to look bad in front of your kids. That's essentially what I want you to figure out today by listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1:I mean you're like six, eight.
Speaker 2:So we ever skied before? Uh, I did, and I've dislocated my hip and my shoulder at two different skiing. Uh experiences all both. Uh, while I was before dislocated my hip in eighth grade not a good idea vertical leap. I blame my entire lack of vertical leap on the fact that my hip was dislocated in eighth grade.
Speaker 2:Um and then in 11th grade I just I went out. I literally hadn't skied you know much at all since the eighth grade because that was obviously a huge blunder. I went back up to shasta no squaw valley. I skied again. Bam, landed on my shoulder, dislocated my right shoulder. Concussion Woke up. Woke up in the hospital.
Speaker 1:What yeah, dude, so ski patrol had to get you probably.
Speaker 2:I've gone down in the sled Twice in my life.
Speaker 1:And you've only skied twice In your life. I've skied a lot more than that, but I mean, these were the two most memorable.
Speaker 2:So let me tell you From personal experience. You don't want to do, just don't ski, that's your advice you need to be stable and you need to have some pretty smart, you know, thinking about how you're going to train to get ready for skiing.
Speaker 1:So we had a listener reach out and ask a question, which we love, and so here we are, we're going to tackle it so because ski season is now this year, they're considering it going to be the record-breaking ski season and because most of those ski resorts are owned by the same company, they can tell based on passes bought ahead of time, season passes, all that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:How do we make sure that, ultimately, that families that are traveling for skiing and snowboarding, that, as they hit the slopes, what kind of exercises can they do to help improve, minimize injury? Any kind of practical tips, whether it's leading up to it or actually even on the slopes themselves, before you hit the slopes, you know stretching, whatever it is, I think the big thing would be is what can we do right now to maximize the fact that we're going to hit the slopes? I'm going to hit the slopes with my family. I can tell you what I do not want a knee injury. I do not want to hurt something, I don't want to break something. So what do I need to do? What do families need to do right now to get prepared for the season?
Speaker 2:great question, uh. So first of all let me qualify a couple things. Snowboarding is very different from skiing in the sense that you're you are you know, harnessed in, or you're on a snowboard, both feet like secured onto the snowboard, versus skis, which obviously each foot is in a different ski. So there's some differences in how you might train for snowboarding versus skiing. Snowboarding you would probably want to do a lot more. Um, just lateral, like ability to rotate your trunk well, like a lot of quad and glute strength for uh abs.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, a bit more like rotational work, like med ball, rotational throws and, and you know, kind of cable twists in different directions and things like that. It's important to note that, like strength training does not one-to-one translate to athletic performance as well as, as strength and conditioning coach would like you to believe right, um, plyometrics probably are the like somebody who can jump really far is probably uh, some is also somebody who can run really fast. So plyometrics and speed tend to be uh, kind of more comparable. But when it comes to skiing, you think about okay, I want to be able to have strong enough quads and glutes and core to be able to like kind of sit in a half squat, yeah, for the most part all day long without getting tired.
Speaker 2:So there's going to be some stamina, some like quadricep endurance, like kind of holding the wall sits would be a great one if you're like you don't like doing squats or you're not going to habitually out there doing some sort of like you know workouts with squats and lunges and that kind of thing, you might start out with some wall sits. The other thing that's super important with skiing and I'm going to talk skiing versus snowboarding more so in this conversation is that your inner and outer thigh are constantly stabilizing your leg as you're going through the snow. So as your ski slices through the snow, there's a very, very yeah, fine, like fine motor kind of stabilization that's happening with your inner and outer thighs. So what you would would make some sense to do would be like, if you're doing a wall sit, stick like a squishy ball, like a nerf ball between your thighs and squeeze and activate your inner thighs okay or or vice versa put a band around your knees wall, sit and and drive your knees away from each other.
Speaker 2:Activate your outer glutes. Those medial glutes and inner thighs are going to be key. You just want them strong and healthy so that when you get to the slopes you just have those stabilizer muscles that are going to help support your knees.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:They also help with the acl you know, preventing acl, like the the lateral or the the side glutes or the medial glutes, are a big part of keeping your knee from from buckling in which is part of how we blow out our acls and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So when somebody's like in a sport where they're you know where acl injuries are very common a lot of glute work, adductor work, that kind of stuff is important for just developing a system that's strong and stable so that so the simplest movement we can make at this point, before you know if you're first time working out wall sit we used to do in gym class.
Speaker 1:It's literally you put your back against the wall and you squat down to like you're sitting in a proverbial chair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean and it's the closer you can get to 90 degrees, the better but, you could start off at, like you know, a much higher angle for longer periods of time. Uh, and that kind of thing you can also if, like those are boring, you don't want to do them. Just you can squat all you want.
Speaker 1:But just air squats, air squats.
Speaker 2:Adding a hold a couple light dumbbells again. It's probably not effective to do a bunch of like heavy squatting that's not going to translate all that. Well, okay you're probably more.
Speaker 2:You're better off doing like 20 to 30 reps on stuff okay it's gonna not gonna hurt as much, you're not gonna get injured doing it, but also you're gonna develop a little bit more of, like you know, the muscular endurance that you're going to want for skiing. Uh, the other thing I would say is side planks. Now, side planks can be done, and the cool thing is I've got some videos, uh, in in the show notes.
Speaker 1:I can actually link these videos and I'll put them in the youtube.
Speaker 2:Uh, I'll put them in youtube under our youtube channel, under like skiing videos.
Speaker 2:And you can see like a side plank. There's like three ways to do a side plank that I really like you know, all of which are on your elbow, but one of them is just the typical side plank you see all the time. The other one is where you put your right, the top leg on like a bench or something and then the lower leg squeezes in towards the upper leg and you actually get a massive inner adductor, which is the inner thigh activation, as it stabilizes and holds your body up, and then the opposite of that is where the knee of the lower leg is down and you're lifting the whole body up using that glute. So there's, there's a way to work the outer glute, the inner thigh and the core stabilizers in that side plank.
Speaker 2:That, I think, is beautiful that's great so important and an easy one to do on a daily basis. It doesn't require you to hire a trainer or go to the gym. You can just do it with your kids. Kids can do side planks. Kids can do wall sits. You can challenge your kids like who can hold the wall sits the longest? Kids will go like five minutes, they're just built for squatting, right so.
Speaker 2:But you know, as adults we tend to be a little bit less mobile, a little bit more, um, like you know, knee pain, joint pain, so so, you know, it's a good benchmark for time for us.
Speaker 1:You know, I think a lot of it has to do with your body weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like if someone's 200 plus pounds, a wall sit for a minute could be pretty challenging. Someone who's much lighter which means that really the wall sit is you're just holding your upper body off, like basically in that position. So somebody who's lighter could go easily two, three minutes. So it really depends on a lot of factors.
Speaker 1:How long can you do a wall sit?
Speaker 2:I don't know You're so tall. Yeah, being tall might factor in, but I mean, I could probably like guts it out for two or three minutes.
Speaker 1:Two or three.
Speaker 2:Two or three, yeah, yeah, I think. And then just for everything else, like, even though you think about you're going down, you're facing forward, going down a mountain on skis, there's so much moving your legs back and forth, like in the way that we we need to be able to like, adjust and get over the moguls or go around stuff and so. So, with that, you're going to want to look at making sure that you're doing some sort of rotational movement that couldn't just be hopping back and forth. They're doing lateral, uh, hopping movements and things like that. Or it can be using a, a dumbbell or a ball to twist with, and things like that anytime. Or it can be using a dumbbell or a ball to twist with and things like that Anytime. We're working the core in multiple directions, probably better for you than just doing sit-ups. You know something like that.
Speaker 2:So, creating some dynamic training can be helpful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are some great tips. I love the wall set idea because you can do that anywhere, anytime. Multiple sets with bands, or even that Nerf ball.
Speaker 2:I definitely am gonna try it could be just like your kids soccer ball just squat, put the soccer ball and squeeze it. You can also do that in a plank you can be holding a plank and just squeezing your inner thighs together, just put some sort of squishy thing like a yoga block or a ball could just be a great way to just engage. It engages your inner thigh. It actually engages your pelvic floor muscles too.
Speaker 2:That's more of a term that ladies might know more about helps with sex right maybe but after after giving birth, pelvic floor oh god, birth my bad can can we need to sometimes like consciously activate them or train them, got it, but anyway, so yeah, and I think the last piece would be um, you know, the more cardiovascular endurance you have, you know, going for some jogs or going for some hikes or doing some elliptical, anything that's going to improve your cardiovascular ability.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you're going to be high altitude, probably no matter what.
Speaker 2:You know you're in a very aerobic state because you're not, unless you're, like you know, crazy fast, you know downhill skiing or doing some crazy moguls or jumps. Most of the time you're in a, you're at a lower heart rate zone where you're burning you're, you're in, you're breathing a lot of oxygen. You're hopefully burning a lot of fat because your oxygen converts fat to fuel, and so the better your your kind of low zone, one zone two, cardiovascular ability is the better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's cool. I mean those are some great practical tips to prevent injury, to build strength, to make the experience better. Because I know from experience, I try to go one to two times a year with my family and if you're not cardiovascularly or leg shape about halfway through, you're just like god yeah this sucks, and so having those things done, or at least preparing your body so it's used to those things, I think is going to be huge.
Speaker 2:I think the other thing I want to say is like think about your ski day as like you're about to go play soccer, basketball or flag football with your friends. Like you're about to go play soccer or basketball or flag football with your friends.
Speaker 2:Like you would never do that and not stretch and warm up, and that's but oftentimes because skiing requires so much equipment, like you know, it's jackets and it's like we don't think to warm up, we just get on the ski slopes and go, and you know, with the cold weather, with fact that you're sleeping in a hotel bed or an Airbnb, like there's sleeping in a hotel bed or an Airbnb.
Speaker 2:There's just a lot of reasons why your body cannot be optimal when you start out. And so doing some stretching or movement not so much long-holded stretching but mobility stretching punter kicks, do some air squats before you get your boots and your skis on Just doing a little bit of things like that to activate your core, to get your body warmed up, it's going to be effective.
Speaker 1:Well, I think also an effective warmup and stretch is getting your kids set up and ready, going to the rental facility, getting all your stuff, getting your kids in all of their crap.
Speaker 2:That could. I can't tell you how sweaty and how tiring it is to do that.
Speaker 1:I think, and along with the preparation physically, there's a huge component of what is the best case scenario. For how do we I think in any time we're dealing with kids, especially kids that are coming of age, how do we include them in the process? How do we ensure that they're safe? And then also, like for me, I'm a pretty, I'm a pretty scared dad how do we get them in a situation where they're not going to die? Basically is what it comes down to. And so for us, for us as a family, we decided to go, we were, we had an opportunity to go to Taos, new Mexico, and I just I could teach my kids, I could go through that process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll try to help them learn about skiing, but the problem I think with that is a lot of the times I'm pretty impatient, so if I can't take my opportunity to ski but I'm spending on the bunny slopes with my son or my daughter trying to help them and get frustrated, cause a lot of the times you give your kid instruction, they don't take it as well If it was from a stranger.
Speaker 1:In a lot of cases, just like teaching, we learned from COVID helping our kids through their video school was a nightmare. So as far as my suggestion on getting your kids up to date, I think the best possible scenario would be making sure you get a good ski school and allowing them to do the full day. Don't do a half day, do a full day, because not only are they going to learn by the end of the day, and you're going to be able to ski with them down the slope of the last, the last part of their day, and you can watch them exceedingly, like they went from nothing to something. Uh, you get a full day of skiing without your kids.
Speaker 2:And they're learning something. Money well spent.
Speaker 1:Yes, money well spent. So the follow-up question to the fitness side and all those elements from our listener was what would we suggest with parent-family experience? Do we leave our kids at home? Do we decide to teach them ourselves? Do we go to ski school? And I think the first, biggest priority is go on to Google and you Google best ski schools for kids.
Speaker 1:And wherever you're going to go whether it's Taos, whether it's Colorado there's a billion places in Colorado to ski you're going to have to find a spot where you can drop your kids for the full day. You're going to pay 500,000 bucks, probably, but they get skis, they get rentals, they get, you know, the lift ticket, all that stuff. They have the time of their lives and then you can, and your spouse and whoever's with you, you can go enjoy the slopes for a full day, no matter what, because that's the truth, and not only are they going to know better, and then you can correct as you're skiing with them, because I'm not a great teacher in general, but the fact is I can teach somebody that knows how to do something and correct better than somebody that knows nothing and jumps in. And so it's a personal preference, but I think the first thing you want to do is understand that you get one day of just you can do whatever you want, whether that's sit at the ski lodge and drink Aperol spritz, whatever it is. You get to do that and it is completely your thing.
Speaker 1:And that's what I loved about it was I was still like coming back into skiing as an adult. You still need some time to warm up, but by the end of the day you are ripping and roaring and having a blast. And then the next day you get to ski with your children who just learned everything, and you. It's like seeing them fully grown going what, what, where'd you learn how to do this? And the enjoyment to that is so much better than going through the process of teaching them making sure they have the right technique. You can only tell them pizza so long, pizza, pizza, you know how they, they you know, do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a whole thing to that and I think it's the best investment to make is to spend money on that, cause you're going to spend a lot of money on skiing that.
Speaker 2:I think that's the big thing. Yeah, you're not getting out of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're not spending money anyway so I think the best way that we've skied were a few things and this is kind of like the best way to do it with the best financial sense. I bought after. I bought rental skis the year before 99 bucks some of the best skis you can find that they rent. I bought them for 99. I had an Amazon ski bag for the skis I can throw into a Southwest. It counts as a check bag, right, I can do that. Did the same thing for my wife. So I've already eliminated any ski costs because I have ski boots.
Speaker 1:Always get your own ski boots because you the biggest issue with most ski rentals are the boots. So you spend some time, spend some money, get ski boots that fit you and you lug those things around, you put them in your check bag and you go wherever you're going and you can demo skis. You get demo skis rather than rental skis and they're way better. Ultimately, you're going to spend some money. So I have my own helmet, I have my own ski boots because I'm a grown wear helmets now.
Speaker 1:Oh, you have to.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, dude, I didn't tell you what happened, okay so a few things like this is the last time I skied, no helmet, no helmet like the 90s, so we didn't have helmets until, like, we go back to skiing.
Speaker 1:Uh, we got our kids, so the kids have helmets. You know, that's the thing, it's standard. You, if anybody without a helmet, you're like, what are you doing? So I, uh, we went to park city like two years ago. Park city, utah, it's a beautiful skiing. It's pretty expensive, but my father-in-law had a timeshare and he allowed us to use it at park city so we had free place to stay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, first thing problem we fly in there with southwest points, we rent a car, whatever, we got all the ski stuff, get a helmet. I decide, hey, we've, our kids know how to ski, our family knows how to ski. But let's get a private ski instructor and he can kind of make sure the kids are good and even you know, correct me where I want, because I I taught myself. So he takes us up the hill and he spends the entire day with us touring us around park city, canyon, canyon ridge or whatever it's called that side of it rather than the park city side and he showed us all the way, critiqued our kids, critiqued us, and he taught me how to do a little trick, and that trick is where you can turn your their skis so you can ski down backwards okay and then flip back in one fluid motion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you could. You could do it back and you can ski down backwards, okay, and then flip back in one fluid motion. Yeah, so you could. You could do it back and you can ski a little bit and then ski and turn back. If you do that, you don't know how you're doing. You flip, you cut the edge of the snow and you fall immediately. So he taught me how to do it and I got really good at doing a 360 coming down the mountain. So you get, and you only do it where you're going to, where people can watch you, so you don't do it up at the top, you do it towards the bottom, where we start slowing down.
Speaker 1:You start doing three sixties all the way down to the end. Very impressive, get a lot of looks. At least I thought I did. Well, I had. Uh, we, we go with some family friends up to Taos the next year, the next, you know, spring break or whatever. There those are actually the families we, our kids, were together. That's another suggestion. Bring families that can do it, they can afford it. Do. They did ski school together and so we skied with them and then the next day we skied with all of our family, all our kids. It was super cool experience.
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, we go to angel fire in mexico and we get on the the thing and I'm like, hey, brian, check this out. And I start doing the 180 to 360. He's like, oh, that's super cool. Everyone's like, oh, that's cool because I was doing it smooth. Yeah, of course I have my own helmet. That I bought. But I almost I told stacy, I was like this is stupid. I'm I'm an expert skier, quote, unquote. Now, why do I need a? I need a helmet. She's like you have to like no, you cannot ski without a helmet. She's a nurse practitioner, so she's super like weird about concussions and stuff about five turns in. The kids are loving it, whatever.
Speaker 1:And I just get too cocky and I catch the edge of my ski on the back turn and I flip fully back, hit my head, kareem, my head against the hard ice blackout, wake up to Stacy, over top me, stars everywhere, and I just I just laid there because obviously I felt like a moron. But second, I was also like what just happened? And so I come to and I'm talking to her and I'm like I don't, like I start getting nauseous. You know the classic signs of a horrible concussion. Right, I'm like well, we're at the top of the mountain, I got to get down and so I'm skiing down and obviously the altitude doesn't help. I I have to stop multiple times because I cannot keep, I cannot ski straight. So I get down on the mountain and thankfully my wife's a nurse practitioner the other person we're with is a nurse like we're fully good medically, right, we get a couple hours where I just I'm going to take a break. I start feeling better.
Speaker 1:Okay, got my helmet, it's fine. We go back up the hill. The kids are everywhere. It's crazy, there's five kids. We're just skiing all over and I'm trying to sit at the back end just watching kids in case they get lost or ski falls off, whatever. Well, I see a kid fall and I up to him and I catch the edge of the snow and I, no joke, flip and like bang my head against the snow and I was like you know, what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, like you know what F this? I'm done, I can't, I can't do this anymore. Like I truly was, like I can't believe that just happened. So I think a few things to remember when skiing is obviously you need a helmet. Few things to remember when skiing is obviously you need a helmet. If I didn't have a helmet, my I would have probably been, honestly, I hit so hard I probably would have died. I would have cracked my skull open. It would have been horrific. My kids would have watched this bloody, bloody snow ice. Like I envisioned that whole thing happening where, like I'm good, I'm, you know, I'm good with God, right, I'm going to go to heaven, live a beautiful life in heaven and eternity.
Speaker 2:God willing.
Speaker 1:No, I'm confident in that. Then my kids would be left with this track. They'll never ski again Like that's the burden you bear, bart. So you wear a helmet. I suggest always get your own ski boots. But as far as like cost effectiveness, it's an expensive sport, it's like golfing. So unless you're going to ski more than two or three times a year, you don't really you shouldn't probably get a season pass. But I mean that's the biggest expense.
Speaker 1:I mean you're talking 200, 250 bucks for a lift ticket for a kid for the day, and you know most kids don't want to ski all day. You're looking at 200, 250 bucks for two hours on the slopes, right? So I think there's a real understanding of manager expectations as a family, what they can and cannot do, because a lot of times we're like let's just ski through lunch, let's ski through whatever. The best investment you can ever make is having your debit card and getting hot chocolate on top of the mountain at the ski spot yeah, and wasting time going to the bathroom, spending you know whatever, and then coming back and skiing for the next two hours. Best investment you'll ever make is buying hot chocolate halfway through the day do it and get the kids excited.
Speaker 2:I love that because you you gotta realize, like you before you had kids, you go up and ski and it was all about about how much can I ski in a day?
Speaker 1:How many runs can I get?
Speaker 2:When you get kids, you've got to think about how do I create really great memories within the context of hey, we're on a mountain, we're skiing, we're trying a new sport, blah, blah, blah. They may or may not love it. We're skiing, we're trying a new sport, blah, blah, they may or may not love it. Uh, but hot chocolate at a, at a little chalet or like, exactly like a little spot. You make it super special.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're gonna remember that and taking time back to just go. It's not about how many runs. Did we get our money's worth?
Speaker 1:because you've got your money's worth. You know you get to spend time with your kids doing something cool. One thing I wish I would have done different, especially as my kids were learning. My kids are amazing skiers. Now Just relax. Yeah, I stress so much of like I see, just like cracking my head open and dying in front of my children, envisioning in my head Like I tend to be very uptight, so so understand, I know that's hard to believe, bart, I'm such a chill guy, but the oh, I get so, I get so uptight with my kids safety and concern I get it, I get it and I, you know any big thing that happens the edge of the snow, whatever I get super intense, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so relaxing and enjoying the process, I think is going to be huge, because my son wants to go down double diamonds. My daughter likes the medium. If there's too many people around she's like nope, I'm good. Yeah. So it's like managing those personalities in a real way, without being like everybody just shut up. I just don't want to do this, I'm afraid. And my wife also being the worst ever because she tries, she's one of those people. It's like if, if the run opens at nine, we're going to be there at nine, and if it closes at four 30, we're going to be there until four 30. I love her to death max out.
Speaker 2:But she's like, I have to be like the barometer of like. Hey, we need to stop yeah, like we need a sandwich about to get yes, that's the other thing. Um, you're much more likely to injure yourself at the beginning or the end of the day. Yeah, so, to be like, because you're not warmed up at the beginning of the day, it's new, your technique, all that kind of stuff hasn't hasn't kind of come back to you, and then, of course, the end of the day, you're tired, your joints are.
Speaker 1:You know, it's that last one you're just yeah, you're end of the day, you're tired, your joints are. You know it's that last one. Let's squeeze into that last one. Or you're a little overconfident because you've had a couple of great 360s Stacy. My wife broke her ribs on Red River, new Mexico, in high school because of that and she hasn't learned yet. She's like man. It was cool. The ski patrol skied me down.
Speaker 2:It's just a funny thing, it's just personality types just like the idea. I'm that type of person. I'm willing to spend a lot of money, but I'm gonna squeeze every drop out of it.
Speaker 1:I want everything out of it, but I think also enjoy your time. I think those types of memories within your means, it's worth it yeah it's worth the investment if this is what you love to do, as a it's kind of like disney world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just if you're gonna go family, go go our thing, everybody loves it.
Speaker 1:We have all the stuff like we're gonna spend three to four grand bare minimum to take a key our kids skiing for the week but it's worth it because ultimately, that's what they remember and they can tell their kids that it's not like a hurricane in Cozumel like we experienced in the summer. It's a little different.
Speaker 2:They will remember that, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah they will. Uh well, I think. Ultimately I appreciate the tips for wellness and and care. If I was going to give one more tip to anybody that's listening, that's going skiing is always have a nice pint of Fireball in your inner pocket because it keeps you warm inside, and always start your first lift with a cheers with whoever you're, with, minus kids, Fireball, minus kids.
Speaker 2:There it is, notes for the man Mitch Royer giving it giving us the goods, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks so much for listening and remember show notes?
Speaker 2:Uh, you'll, um, you'll, find some YouTube links to get you some videos on those side planks. Help you kind of get that stuff going.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to start using that technique. I appreciate it, bart. Thank you guys for listening. Please like, subscribe and share to whoever uh you know that might benefit from this. We love you. Have a great day later.