Tips for the proper practice of winter sports

Cold starts and with it comes to the snow to our ski resorts. If you go to dust utensils ski or snowboard and enjoy winter sports, attentive to these tips.

Skiing is a great sport, however, is not without its dangers. Use good equipment, be in proper physical shape, make a good breakfast before heading out to the slopes, perform a warm up and, above all, have the much common sense as the sport is practiced, they are essential to minimizing risks.

Ski benefits

First, when practiced outdoors and usually in the countryside, the air we breathe is much cleaner, less polluted than that often, enters the lungs in the major cities.

Being an aerobic exercise, it promotes physical conditions and cardiopulmonary capacity and increases the production of red blood cells, i.e., blood cells that deliver oxygen to tissues in the body. So much so that many athletes performed seasons altitude training to advance their performance.

What precautions must be taken before starting winter sports?

Being a hard practice, both physically and technically, it is important to have made previous physical training or cardiorespiratory aerobic character. In these sports, if you have no experience and refined technique, it is supplemented with a physical overexertion which is tiring and leads to mistakes that cause serious injury.

If this is the first time skiing, it should undergo a sports check, which measures training for sports and thus not take any chances.

Also, if an underlying disease is suffered, consult with your doctor to see if there is any contraindication to practice sports.

The most frequent injuries

Ligamentous and meniscal knee injuries resulting from falls are quite common; also, the rotation that occurs in the knee with the foot fixed by the boot and the ski or the table is the production mechanism of these injuries. There are also frequent fractures of the tibia and wrist as a result of these drops.

Since the four years

Skiing can start from four years on, no age limit as long as the health conditions allow, for though over the years the physical conditions merman, can be supplemented with proper technique.

Skincare

If you are going to do these sports, you should be especially careful with skin areas exposed to the sun as snow is a reflective medium, and the effect of solar radiation is amplified. It is fundamentally a sunscreen with SPF 50 on the face and lips.

Some recommended foods

For these sports is advisable always to have a small snack we power quickly if we notice any drop in sugar (chocolate, fruit juice) and always carry a serving of nuts to keep the energy level for an extended time.