hey peps,well my snowboarding season has pretty much at the end for me, it was a great season. but im looking for a set of exercises that i should be doing during the off season. and set of stretches.
i am thinking of picking up an all terrain board/ mountain board for the summer season, there is lots of crazy trails and dirt roads around me that i can i ride.
thanks for the help.
also i got a road bike that im gonna start riding soon.

that's nice dajaga, though sad that snowboarding season is soon to end.

exercising is the best to keep you in shape. when when snowboarding season begins, you'll be good because you feel better because of the gym. hehe.. lol

an all terrain board/mountain board for the summer? do you mean a bike?

exercises im not sure about but for stretching just stay basic

heres a guide

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_1/126.shtml#hamstring

I think he means a dirtboard. www.mountainboards-dirtboards.com

If your serious take something along the lines of yoga, really opens up your hips and works on balance.  Also works your cardio like crazy if its in a heated room type yoga.  You'll never run out of gas.

Posted by russki1
If your serious take something along the lines of yoga, really opens up your hips and works on balance.  Also works your cardio like crazy if its in a heated room type yoga.  You'll never run out of gas.

I dont know exactly the type of Yoga maybe Moksha or Hatha.  But you breathe through your nose only, deep into your stomach (lower lung) area.  Stretching is an intense workout by itself, and the room is heated so your really sweating, basicly your body needs to intake and provide alot more oxygen to the lungs.   Maybe not a crazy cardio work-out, but a decent one.

Posted by russki1
I dont know exactly the type of Yoga maybe Moksha or Hatha.  But you breathe through your nose only, deep into your stomach (lower lung) area.  Stretching is an intense workout by itself, and the room is heated so your really sweating, basicly your body needs to intake and provide alot more oxygen to the lungs.   Maybe not a crazy cardio work-out, but a decent one.

It's Hatha, and specifically, the hot-room concept that Bikram Choudhury pioneered...  The sheer strength required to hold postures 'the right way' for the full amount of time is extreme.  In almost every posture, the stretching benefit is counterbalanced with a serious amount of strength exertion.  An average weight person practicing Bikram's hatha yoga series for 90 minutes can burn up around 1000+ calories.  That's some serious cardio.

Really, it just depends on what postures you're doing...and how long you hold them.  There are plenty of hatha yoga postures that you could practice without breaking a sweat.  When you practice the Bikram series or other comparable postures, you'll be sopping wet...hot room or not.

[Edited by paygrey on 3/15/2009 at 6:57 PM]

go do some swim work outs. and while your at it learn some sweet tricks of the diving board

Posted by paygrey

 An average weight person practicing Bikram's hatha yoga series for 90 minutes can burn up around 1000+ calories.  That's some serious cardio.

 When you practice the Bikram series or other comparable postures, you'll be sopping wet...hot room or not.

[Edited by paygrey on 3/15/2009 at 6:57 PM]