Hiking Bench

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Wags

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Anyone have some suggestions on how to start a hiking bench work out program. Go easy opn me, I'm old!:eek:
 
Hi Wags,
See attached for hiking bench idea (take a circular saw to a beat up old boat).
 

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Hey AROY
Are those the new Hiking Boot that will be in fashion this year? Could be the start of a new trend!!!!!
 
This rig needs a big counterweight on the opposite deck. I use a monster sand bag, but didn't have it there for the pic, which is why I'm not really hiking too hard here. Any further out and it would flip over on me. The sand bag makes it pretty hard to practice tacking, or at least without a friend standing by to help lift and move it across mid tack. Other than that, as a hiking bench it's pretty good.

Glad you like the "hiking" boots.
 
... nice hiking bench and very trendy boots indeed.

But coming back to "Wags's" question:
How do you organize
(with respect to duration and pauses)
your hiking bench training routines?

My question comes from the observation that I
don't have greater problems to hike during a long beat, but cannot
hike out on the bench for longer than 3 to 5 minutes.

So, how do you train on your bench?
 
Lutzh said:
... nice hiking bench and very trendy boots indeed.

But coming back to "Wags's" question:
How do you organize
(with respect to duration and pauses)
your hiking bench training routines?

My question comes from the observation that I
don't have greater problems to hike during a long beat, but cannot
hike out on the bench for longer than 3 to 5 minutes.

So, how do you train on your bench?
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i would like to suggest a reason here. Everytime you're on the water and you go over a wave, your muscles in your legs relax and allow more blood to flow to your legs, but on a hiking bench there arent any waves so your muscles are contracted all the time, as there is no uneven-ness on the surface that you are "sailing" over.
 
Best advice is to get Blackburn's book - Sail Fitter.

Otherwise, use normal training principles to increase endurance.

I find it helps to either hike next to a mirror, or with a soft object under your shoulders so you can tell when you are leaning out enough, ie getting your upper body almost parallel to the floor. If you can rig up sheeting system for each arm, that's a plus.
 
personally i dont think the sail fitter book is worth the money with there being pretty much the same info available on the web in differant places. i believe the rooster site has some good stuff in their hits and tips section on hiking as well as the old dr. laser site i think it was but im not sure if thats still up and going. im not trying to knock the book but if you are like me and prefer not to spend too much coin for stuff thats available freely

gor a sheeting system im a fan of attaching a old bungee to add some resistance and pulling in on it. the further you oull it the higher the resistance
 
Optiparts has a nice hiking bench. It's universal for sailing, but it looks pretty good.
Also: I have seen a self hinking bench of a Master Laserite of Argentina. That hiking bench is very simple and cheap to construct. He is member at TLF: drLoser. You may ask him via PM for a photo of it.

Ciao
LooserLu
 
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