Lost 40 pounds since January!! Will Zero off love me now?

[Ralph Lee]

Last year I bought a ski too small for weight loss motivation, it ended up working. So many obvious advantages, I'm anxious to try out ZO for the first time again.

[Ralph Lee]

If I sucked at it before, will I suck just as much minus 40 lbs?

[Andre]

Congrats on the weight loss!

My guess: you ll gain a bouy for every 10 lbs you lost!

[bigskieridaho]

I am right there with you @Ralph Lee I lost weight, bought a new ski, and now have a boat with ZO of my own to ski behind. Guess we can learn together!

[RazorRoss3]

If you are 40lbs lighter ZO will like you more, you will be exceptionally faster, more energy for more passes, and I would agree that you will pick up several buoys. I can feel a considerable difference between my lifting weight and ski weight which are only 10lbs apart so 40 will feel great I'm sure.

[Roger]

Weight loss is certainly helpful with ZO. The magic number seems to be around 170lbs as I seldom hear complaints about the pull from skier at or under that weight. I'm 185 and it was very difficult for me to compete while still owning a Perfect Pass boat. Eventually, I bought a ZO equipped boat and have come to terms with the ZO system.

[jcamp]

Congrats on the weight loss. Regardless of the speed control system you use, having 40 less pounds to drag around (even more weight when g-forces are accounted for) should drastically improve your skiing. Have a great summer.

[Drago]

@Roger , while lighter may help with zo, switching between pp and zo is never optimum. I suggest 185 is just fine and training behind zo is what helped you ski better with zo

[jjackkrash]

I'd bet good money you pick up a full pass quickly. My "fighting weight" is 200ish and anything after 220 I start having a hard time even getting out of the water. Great work on the weight loss.

[Ralph Lee]

Recovering from a work related back injury, I put on 50 pounds and moved to ZO. I'm hoping feel free of the boat again like the good old days!

[Roger]

@Drago - Certainly skiing behind it all the time has helped me to be a better skier. However, when ZO came out and we all had PP boats, the 170 and under crowd skied about the same buoy count in tournaments while those of us over that mark seemed to lose buoys. I'm a better skier in terms of style I think, but buoy count... PP tournament best, 2@38, ZO tournament best 2@38.

[gmut]

@Ralph Lee what did you do to lose forty pounds?

[Ralph Lee]

@gmut 100% eating light and healthy. Thankfully my wife figured out a way to make the healthy crap taste great!!

I've always exercised year round, so that remained the same