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Skiing can be an optimal fitness training for people aged over 50, when properly operated. This resulted in a study by the University of Salzburg in Austria.

Depending on driving style, speed, and the condition of the runway will be the cardiovascularSystem trains, which boost fat metabolism and promote coordination. In addition, you are doing something good for the psyche, reports the Department of Sport and Exercise Science.

If you drive on flat slopes, so you can train endurance and burns primarily fat. On steep slopes, however, the effort and the force increases are trained. If we use a number of trips during these breaks, this is like an interval training, which is the stroke volume of theHeart promotes positive.

"Against Osteoporosis intense power loads, for example, very good," said Erich Muller, Director of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science. By endurance training is also the blood pressure be reduced, which in turn, the mortalitysrisiko immensely lowers.

Anyone who suspects that many breaks are counterproductive and that the lift is mistaken: "Even during breaks your heart rate is relatively high, so we find ourselves in all at least 60 minutes during a day of skiing in the optimal heart rate," noted the study leader.

The slope of fun on two boards, however, not only promotes physical well-being, but also prepared a lot of joy, as the study results. More than70 percent of the nearly 400 respondents, inter alia, take account of the experience of nature and feeling of movement skis. In achieving the ideal figure, merely plays a minor role.

"Restless, was irritated depressed, or tired during the day's skiing almost none of the subjects," the investigator. "In addition, excess dhe stress of three and a half hours at anyone of anything strenuous field. "Due to the physical demands pours out of the body's own opiates, so good hormones, which can in turn, the occurrence of depression or other mental illnesses are significantly reduced.

The research also showed that theComplaints that had many people in everyday life, while significantly decreased the sport of skiing. Only 15 percent of respondents complained of discomfort during the sport. Because the risk of injury while skiing in comparison with other sports can not be underestimated, are warm-ups, especially for the shoulders, knees and hips but nevertheless essential.