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physical fitness improves bridge performance?

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Posted 2010-February-19, 12:29

kenberg, on Feb 19 2010, 03:56 PM, said:

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Posted 2010-February-19, 12:32

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Posted 2010-February-19, 12:35

it will improve your skiing hopefully :)
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Posted 2010-February-19, 13:27

I think physical fitness may not be that important, but two extremes are:

* being in bad shape
* being totally KO because you have been skiing all day - then you can't play bridge well either.
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Posted 2010-February-19, 13:34

Gerben42, on Feb 19 2010, 02:27 PM, said:

I think physical fitness may not be that important, but two extremes are:

* being in bad shape
* being totally KO because you have been skiing all day - then you can't play bridge well either.

You probably get a lot more exercise since skating on the canals rates to be a lot harder than keeping your duff out of snow while going downhill :)
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Posted 2010-February-19, 16:36

Don't you forget about his wooden shoes?
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-February-19, 18:27

rogerclee, on Feb 18 2010, 06:55 PM, said:

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  Posted 2010-February-19, 19:59

I've been skiing twice in my life.

The first was in northern California during my Air Force days. The bunny hill, was the largest hill I had ever been on. The trees and I said hello about a half a dozen times.

The second and last time, was as a thank you gift from a bridge student. We went to the location where the '88 Olympic alpine events were held near Lake Louise at Nakiska in the Kananaskis. After doing the morning lesson, my legs were so shot that I couldn't get into the chair lift to come down the slopes.

I have never, ever, been as sore, as the day after that. I hurt for literally three weeks nonstop. Flying home from Calgary to Nanaimo was torture - so much so that I nearly considered having them wheel me off the plane. I found muscles I never knew existed, not even during my days in the military where I was in special operations.

Since I've lost 85 pounds from my time up north, I am thinking about learning how to ski again, and getting physically prepped for it.
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Posted 2010-February-20, 07:54

According to Enda Murphy, writing in Silver For Ireland, every time an Irish player went to the gym to work out, they reported seeing Helgemo "pounding the treadmill and pumping iron".

At work there's definitely a strong correlation between fitness and sharpness.
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Posted 2010-February-21, 01:56

I can do the 200 m butterfly (no joke). Does that put me in bridge gold medal position? :)
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Posted 2010-February-21, 19:36

whereagles, on Feb 21 2010, 02:56 AM, said:

I can do the 200 m butterfly (no joke). Does that put me in bridge gold medal position? :D

I'm impressed. I think I've done a 200m butterfly a few times over the last few years, but probably couldn't do it at the moment.

I have a really hard time balancing my love of bridge and my love of endurance sports. Both seem to demand so much time....

Then again, there's my love of video games.... :)
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