Through improved technique, a highly functioning body, and supportive movement and nutrition. This is the path, an education if you will, to improving your surfing with the understanding that your body needs to function optimally.
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CORE STRENGTH FOR THE SURFER Part 1. You’ve Got To Be Stable Core training surfers: Do you want to throw down some heavy turns and powerful cutbacks? Well how strong is your core? The rotational power and strength needed for throwing out buckets of water is all coming from the mid-section, your core. While you’ve got…
SOME FANCY PUSHUPS – Surfers Perfect Pushup Surfers Perfect Pushup – Progressions: All surfers can benefit from working on pushups, from increasing your core strength to improving stability of your shoulder girdle. It’s a great exercise with a lot of potential, IF you are doing them properly. Part 1 of the “Surfers Perfect Pushup” goes over…
CATCH YOUR BREATH!! Breath for Surfers: Improper breathing will wreck your shoulder girdle, induce fatigue while paddling out, and set off a chain of potential negative events. These are all things you don’t want! So train yourself to 1) Breathe properly – diaphragmatically 2) learn how to breathe calmly even when exerting yourself or performing…
MILK: DOES IT DO YOUR BODY GOOD? The food you eat is used to rebuild your body. What you put into your body, is used to repair, replace, and rebuild the very cells that create you. So with that being said, where does milk fit into this? This could easily become a scare tactics article,…
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FIGURE OUT WHAT’S WEAK, AND MAKE IT STRONGER! What’s limiting your surfing? Watch the video here Next time you are in the water for an extended period of time, give some thought as to what parts of your body are troubling you. What areas are weak or hurting? What portions of your body feel great with…
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Stronger Legs WILL Improve Your Surfing Here’s a quick video for you guys. Two great movements, one advanced, one for beginners, to really improve not only your strength, and stronger legs but your stability as well. These would be great additions to the workout program you’ve already downloaded, or switch out the lateral lunges for…
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MY SURF WORKOUT I thought you guys may enjoy seeing what I’ve been working on lately, my surf workout. This is a variation of what I’ve been into for the last few weeks. I’ve got some specific issues I’ve been working with regard to a knee, which has been a real pain in the ass…
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Save Your Knees, Mobilize Your Ankles! Rasta, pulling off a pretty serious bottom turn. I want you to focus on the rear foot, especially the angle of the lower leg, or the amount of dorsiflexion at the ankle. What the hell is dorsiflexion? It’s movement of pulling your foot/toes towards your knee. And without proper…
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STUPID EASY Crock Pot Chicken, AND DAMN GOOD Overall performance and health starts with the food you are putting into your body. I can’t stress this enough. Your nutrition lays the foundation for your health, vitality, and well-being. Despite genetics, the things you are putting into your mouth are the basis for creation and repair of…
GET YOUR ROLL ON! Guide To Foam Rolling IMPROVE TISSUE QUALITY, RESTORE RANGE OF MOTION, WORK ON INJURY PREVENTION… HELP YOURSELF! AND HELP YOUR SURFING! Surfer foam rolling: As a surfer you’ve got to be flexible, and your joints require proper amounts of mobility in order for you to move efficiently, quickly, and injury-free. Both…
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