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Water Warrior
Meet Steve Fontaine, World Record Holder
Steve
Fontaine is on a mission. He's planning to water
ski across the Atlantic Ocean. Now 42 years old,
Steve has held several Guinness World Records
for endurance water skiing and exuberates the
energy that most 20 year olds wish they had. On
top of endurance water skiing, Steve's a family
man and has worked diligently for more then ten
years in his irrigation business.
When asked what motivates him, Steve simply
states "My challenge is to do something nobody
has done before. Some people view it as a death
wish. But I've been doing it for so long... It's
just that I'm good at it."
While in training, Steve starts his day with a
12 mile ski run and stays in the water for
another hour or two, and then he goes to work or
the day. He breaks around 11a.m. and takes swims
across the Florida Intra-coastal Waterway. On
many occasions, Steve has ducked underwater to
avoid speed-boats while he was training. In
addition, there were evenings that he would ski
for three or four hours, sometimes more. Steve
has even trained himself to avoid falling asleep
by driving up mountains while staying awake for
two days! Steve doesn't consider himself
seriously training unless he's getting up before
dawn and doing 200 sit-ups, 15 minutes of jump
rope, pull-ups, bike riding about 30 miles, then
skiing four to six hours.
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Steve takes Warrior and
Recovazon to help him, as
he would say, stay on his skis. "After using Warrior and
Recovazon, I doubled my workout regimen; on top of that my
recovery time has improved dramatically. I would never have been
able to train like this without these products."
Fontaine broke his first world record after skiing 46 hours and
1,321 miles. Less than a year later he went back out and set the
backward barefoot record of one hour, 27 minutes and three
seconds. And Steve continues to break records... "I feel like
I've got a calling" Steve says. "My calling is to be the first
to ski across the Atlantic Ocean. I'm obsessed with the
thought." Fontaine continues, "I'm a hundred billion times
over-anxious. I've already been through the record and the
crossing upstairs in my dreams."
Steve
Fontaine's Warrior Accomplishments:
- Longest
ski run in miles: 1,321 miles
- Longest
ski run in hours: 46 hours, 22 minutes
- Longest
ski run without stopping: 24 hours
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Roughest Water: 14- to 16- foot swells, crossing the Gulf of
Mexico
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Farthest ski jump: 170 feet
- Longest
backward barefoot run: 87 miles
- Fastest
ride on skis: 107mph
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