Comments on: Outdoor Activities: Can indoor sports compete? http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/2010/03/18/outdoor-activities/ Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Luke http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/2010/03/18/outdoor-activities/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Luke Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:15:52 +0000 http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/?p=1103#comment-444 When it comes to adventure sports outdoor activities win over their indoor versions every time but the indoor versions certainly have their place. For example a snow dome can't compete with the Alps but when you can't get to the Alps a visit to a 150m long indoor slope with real snow is at least good practice and is certainly better than nothing. It is funny you talk about outdoor activities and fitness as I choose to visit the gym when I could exercise outside. I go a few times a week and use the rowing machine, bikes, treadmill and even the funny ski/cross trainer machines. I don't do it simulate the activity I do it as a convenient way to keep fit. So in this case indoor is better than outdoor as I have no intention of joining a rowing club so I can do 10 mins of rowing twice a week. So for me the outdoor activities vs indoor depends on the circumstances but for adventure sports outdoor is where you need to be. outdoor activities When it comes to adventure sports outdoor activities win over their indoor versions every time but the indoor versions certainly have their place. For example a snow dome can’t compete with the Alps but when you can’t get to the Alps a visit to a 150m long indoor slope with real snow is at least good practice and is certainly better than nothing.

It is funny you talk about outdoor activities and fitness as I choose to visit the gym when I could exercise outside. I go a few times a week and use the rowing machine, bikes, treadmill and even the funny ski/cross trainer machines. I don’t do it simulate the activity I do it as a convenient way to keep fit. So in this case indoor is better than outdoor as I have no intention of joining a rowing club so I can do 10 mins of rowing twice a week.

So for me the outdoor activities vs indoor depends on the circumstances but for adventure sports outdoor is where you need to be.

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]]> By: Mark Pawlak http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/2010/03/18/outdoor-activities/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Mark Pawlak Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:17:37 +0000 http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/?p=1103#comment-442 Putting in the miles, with the smiles. I agree on the wind farms. They look natural to me: large wings turning under the power of nature, flowers with their petals blown off. Proof we are at one with, not just turning a profit from the earth. Outdoors it is. Putting in the miles, with the smiles. I agree on the wind farms. They look natural to me: large wings turning under the power of nature, flowers with their petals blown off. Proof we are at one with, not just turning a profit from the earth. Outdoors it is.

]]> By: Stuart Halliday http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/2010/03/18/outdoor-activities/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Stuart Halliday Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:40:50 +0000 http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/blog/?p=1103#comment-441 First day home from that Oil Platform and its off with the steel toes and on with the trainers. What Mark didn’t mention is the fact that I have dragged my long-suffering wife along for the ride. So it’s a steady eight miles on the open Galloway forest trails this afternoon. A far cry from the steel box that poses as a gym/fitness suit on the rig. With the sun on my face, my dog at my heel, tunes in my head and my wife at my side life does not get much better. Spring on its way and Galloway is coming to life, the spring flowers are abundant and the lambs gambol in the fields, we are truly blessed to live in a place of such natural beauty. Karen has been doing a steady 4 mile circuit from our back door round one of the many rolling hills in the area, which has recently had a wind farm plonked in the middle of it. It’s a green initiative that I guess has to be somewhere. Lots of people complain about these power generators but I think they are kind of hypnotic like a team of giant dancers cursed to eternally dance the ballet of the Giggawatt. First longish run for Karen today in a while so I hope she does ok. First day home from that Oil Platform and its off with the steel toes and on with the trainers. What Mark didn’t mention is the fact that I have dragged my long-suffering wife along for the ride. So it’s a steady eight miles on the open Galloway forest trails this afternoon. A far cry from the steel box that poses as a gym/fitness suit on the rig. With the sun on my face, my dog at my heel, tunes in my head and my wife at my side life does not get much better.

Spring on its way and Galloway is coming to life, the spring flowers are abundant and the lambs gambol in the fields, we are truly blessed to live in a place of such natural beauty. Karen has been doing a steady 4 mile circuit from our back door round one of the many rolling hills in the area, which has recently had a wind farm plonked in the middle of it. It’s a green initiative that I guess has to be somewhere. Lots of people complain about these power generators but I think they are kind of hypnotic like a team of giant dancers cursed to eternally dance the ballet of the Giggawatt.

First longish run for Karen today in a while so I hope she does ok.

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