Water
Warrior
to Ski Across the
Atlantic
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 Intracoastal 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.
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." |

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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
- Roughest Water:
14- to 16- foot swells, crossing the
Gulf of Mexico
- Farthest ski
jump: 170 feet
- Longest backward
barefoot run: 87 miles
- Fastest ride on
skis: 107 mph
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