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All The Tools You Need To Quickly Advance Your Surfing
Surf Skate 2.0 »
Learn proper technique and develop body and mind co-ordination to get your board exactly where you want it to be.
Stretches for Surfers 2.0 »
Enhance your surfing performance with the Stretches For Surfers 2.0 Program. Get More Flow In Your Surfing, Eliminate Pain, Prevent Injury, and Move Better in the Water.
Bodyweight Surf Athlete »
Build Peak Surf Fitness and Shred at your Highest Potential. Get Strong, Get Flexible, and Move Better in the Water.
Endless Paddling Endurance »
Say goodbye to weak-ass noodle arms, and say hello to crushing heavy rips with this Paddling Endurance Program for Surfers.
Surf Mobility »
Enhance your mobility, flexibility, and range of motion, helping you move more fluidly on the waves. Take your surfing to the next level with the Surf Mobility Program.
Surf Athlete Training Program »
Surf Athlete Training Program, a proven, Step-by-Step Program for Better, Faster, & More Durable Surfing.
The Perfect Pop Up »
The ultimate guide to fixing & improving your pop up... For good. Improve your surfing pop up technique and get a better movement on waves.
Breathwork Essentials »
Breathwork essentials help with hold-downs, confidence, trust, and the physical ability to hold your breath for longer periods of time can be an incredible thing for your surfing.
Cardboard Surfer »
A Surf Technique Program That Changes the Way You Surf And How You Understand Surfing. Improve Your Surfing by Learning True Surf Technique.
Surf Academy »
Become Stronger, Durable & Flexible for Your Next Surf Session with the #1 Online Surf Training Program. This is the Netflix of Surf Fitness.
Surf Fundamentals »
Designed to develop effortless style, technique, and confidence, this program ensures a substantial improvement in your surfing abilities.
Surfers Nutrition »
Fuel Your Surfing: Essential Nutrition Strategies for Peak Performance. Eat Smart, Surf Strong with Nutrition Secrets for Enhanced Endurance.
Surf Trip Preparation »
This program will help you in your surf trip preparation - exercises and drills you need to get ready for the trip of your dreams!
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Enhancing your breath-holding ability through confidence and trust can significantly improve your surfing. Dive into the Breath Essentials program to push the boundaries of your breath control and elevate your surfing experience.
Are you stuck in rigid movements and constant breath-holding, lacking fluidity? Surfing thrives on seamless, fluid motion—syncing with the wave's energy. Enhance your "surf mobility" to navigate the waves with ease, moving effortlessly and adaptively.
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MEET THE GUY WHO’S TRYING TO
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Cris Mills
Improving your surfing requires improving the foundations of movement and athleticism. Flexibility is a key part of that process. I wanted to give surfers an easy resource to improve their flexibility, help to eliminate pain, and simply move and feel better.
Surfing in pain sucks, I’ve done it, and I’m sure most of you have as well. We all need to work on body maintenance, and help keep ourselves out of pain.
Frequently Asked Questions
His professional background pulls from highly integrative approaches to health, rehab, and performance training. This has helped him to see the body, and more importantly, a surfers’ body, from a holistic and interconnected manner, whether that be nutritional, chemical, or mechanical.
Here’s a list of equipment recommendations and the associated programs.
• Surf Athlete Training
• Perfect Pop Up
• Stretches for Surfers
This link also provides additional information.
To train efficiently in the movement patterns that carry over to surfing, applied resistance is required. Take paddling, for example, it's a pulling movement, so various forms of pulling need to be trained to develop endurance and durability.
A set of Olympic Rings, elastic resistance bands, or some light kettlebells will allow for a vast array of pulling exercises to ramp up your paddling endurance.
Much of the Rotational Core work requires either an Exercise Ball or Resistance Bands. Developing strength and power for the lower body requires the addition of resistance so a Kettlebell becomes quite beneficial.
Training with weights or resistance won't make you into a meathead or overly bulky. What it will do is help you to develop a stronger and more capable body.
If you don't have all the equipment right away, no worries. For nearly all exercises there are alternative movement options if you don't have that particular piece of equipment.
Beginner surfers will benefit greatly from the technique programs as well as the training. The last thing you want when trying to learn to surf is a body limiting your time in the water!
For those just beginning to train and diving into fitness, no worries! All programs are easily structured, teach you all the details of exercises, and give you exercise progressions or regressions. There is also an amazing community forum to post any questions or considerations you have about any aspects of training and the app.
If English isn’t your first language, no problemo! We are currently offer the app's content in Spanish, Portuguese and French
Click that and the workout, or video, downloads to the "Downloads" section in the app, or web app.
To access the downloaded videos, please go to ''Profile'', then click ''Offline''. All of your downloaded videos are stored there. Deleting is easy as sliding it from right to left on your screen, which will bring up the trash bin option.
A physical file is not downloaded to your computer or phone. The download is stored within the app.
Keep in mind that if you download an entire program, that is large amount of files and data. We generally recommend that people download individual workouts, rather than entire programs at one time.
Remember, you will always have access to the programs as long as your membership is active. Think about it like Netflix, once you stop paying, you lose access.
We have absolute confidence in our programs, our app, and our products, as we stand behind the countless customer results, and our time tested methods.
Our Surf Athlete PRO subscription comes with a 7 Day Refund Guarantee, and at any time you can cancel, or refund your money. We are more than happy and completely willing to stand behind our guarantee and our programs, we simply leave it in your hands to apply the effort. What can your fitness and surfing become!?
In case you don’t like paying by credit card online, you can also pay with your PayPal account.
Richard H. (verified owner) –
I feel so much better and can move so much better.
I’ve only started the surf doa program and am finding it AMAZING!!
I’ve had some back and neck problems for decades that nothing really helps that much (chiro, PT, accupuncture, foundation work, osteopath, etc etc) while everything offered some relief, I’m finding Surf DOA to be getting to the core issue which is space around the nerves and WOW!
Just wanted to send a huge thank you!
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Read MoreArthur K. –
Your inspiration encouraged me!
Thank you for all your information & technical advice. It’s slowly coming together. My hips are getting better. I think it will take a lot more time but unbelievable results. I haven’t trained for over ten years. I bumped into your stretching programs. I loved it.
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Read MoreJonathan J. –
Great program for all levels
Perfect programs for any level of Surfer. if you’re willing to put in the work on the land, it will pay huge dividends in the water!
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Read MoreMindi R. (verified owner) –
From stiff bodybuilding physique athlete to mobile developing surfer 🏄♀️
I use a routine from Stretches for Surfers 2.0 every morning to start my day. I wouldn’t have it any other way, as my mobility and strength in various ranges of motion have improved significantly since I started.
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Read MoreLorenzo C. –
Worth putting time into
The app is very good! just finished the 2 weeks of the program! Will try the 12 week one and see what happens! Overall great job!
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Read MoreSam M. (verified owner) –
GAME CHANGER!
Not only has SSC changed my present – it is changing my future too, as I prepare for much longer surfing and getting back to the most enjoyable thing I have ever done.
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Read MoreAlex J. –
The App is SOLID and very impressive! Super stoked to the contents.
I’m blown away by the app, your knowledge, the exercises, and your holistic/applicable approach to this all. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. So so grateful that I found your stuff. I see you’re based in Bali. Take care, and please keep the content, workouts, and knowledge comin’. Phenomenal!
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Read Moregerry l. –
The results are AMAZING! ZERO PAIN!!
Thank you for the programs.. I am about 6 weeks into the stretches and am virtually pain free. Also, you can see from the pictures I’m improving in my flexibility, hands up and eyes and head focused to my target. Even at 59 years old it’s possible to regain my confidence.
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Read MoreChristian P. (verified owner) –
All the programs and workout plans are all well designed and thought out
Living in the middel of Germany so I`m as landlocked as you can be. Training on land (especially surf technique) is a need for me, if I want to make the most of my surftrips.
I´ve been through the surftraining sucess and streches for surfers program, the carboard surfer and now member of the Ocean Sports Academy. I can say that all the programms and workoutplans are well designed and thought out. Working with The Surfstrength Coach had and still has a huge postive impact on my surfing and my overall health. It really take`s off the brakes.
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Read MoreDavid H. –
Keep up the good work Cris, your knowledge, passion and commitment to what you do is truly admirable.
What you’re providing the average punter like me with, is a truely valuable resource to help us to enjoy our passion for surfing at a deeper level, and subsequently live a healthier life in the process.
I’ve been a follower of your posts for probably 8 of the last 10 years, adopting the odd stretch or movement into my (sometimes) daily routine, and found them really beneficial. I appreciate your take on how us humans should be able to keep moving in the way we were designed to. It all makes perfect sense.
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Read MoreMichael Zazzali –
I have always found your information to be insightful, smart, and of course entertaining.
I’ve been following you for the last few years. I have been surfing only 8 years and initially always looking for intelligent info on how to advance my surfing. As a physical therapist for over 27 years I’ve become critical of what info is on the internet. I realize how much useless and at times even harmful information is out there. I told all of my surf friends to check your site out and they have enjoyed learning from you.
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Read MoreCamron C. –
You helped me get better at surfing!
Excellence & full dedication to craft is rare to find in this world and you exemplify it and that has helped me get better at and enjoy surfing much more than I had previously to being made aware of Surf Strength coach last year . I look forward to taking and retaking all of them and continuing on with fitness and nutrition provided through your formats. Thank you again and keep up the great work !
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