The Journey to Better Surfing
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.
PROTEIN SHAKES, TO DRINK OR NOT TO DRINK? To drink, or not to drink? While this answer may be simple when it comes to the booze, protein shakes can bring you into a realm of confusion, but I guess the same could be said for the booze too. So, what to do about the protein shakes,…
HOW WELL DO YOUR SHOULDERS PADDLE? STRENGTHEN & STRETCH THEM PROPERLY You complaining about sore shoulders? What are doing about it? Are you still doing dumbbell front raises, high rows, or bench presses? If you are, you are just wrecking those shoulders more and more and more. Tear up that rotator cuff tissue! (That’s sarcasm). If…
Stand On One Leg And Hop Around – Single Leg Balance You surf, so you can obviously balance and maintain your equilibrium, but how efficient are you really? Can you stand strong on a single leg? How about producing force in a rotational movement while standing on one leg? Are you a balanced surfer? Can…
PRIMER ON FOOD GARBAGE – READ YOUR LABELS The food you put into your body, is the FOUNDATION of your health. Eat like shit your whole life, you can’t expect your body to perform optimally, and often chronic degenerative diseases are around the corner. To make things worse, the industrialized food nations in which we…
PALEO PANCAKES, AND SOME NOT QUITE PALEO PANCAKES Paleo pancakes: There’s something about Americans and pancakes. We love them, I know I sure as hell do. But when you take a look at what the average American pancake is made from, it’s basically garbage. Absolutely non-healthy ingredients, all helping you get on track to be…
EAT YOUR BREAKFAST you know you want it As I’ve stated before, I love food, and breakfast has got to be my preferred meal of the day. I wake up hungry, and immediately start cooking up something. So today, it was organic bacon, plantains, tomatoes, and organic eggs, cooked in coconut oil. A serious plate of food,…
DROP AND GIVE ME 20, BUT THEY HAD BETTER BE DAMN GOOD PUSHUPS. Surfers Perfect Pushups! Men usually love them, hell, it just feels tough banging out a bunch of pushups. Women usually stray away from them, which they really shouldn’t… women if you want some hot abs, then get good with pushups! Surfers, male…
To Squat, or Not To Squat? FRONT SQUAT VARIATIONS Watch video here Bottom line, as a surfer, you need to have some form of a squat in your workout regiment. The squat movement is a necessary component of the movement dynamics of a surfer. When you are in the act of surfing, your movements are a…
CHEAP GIANT POT OF HEALTHY STUFF Turkey Legs: What I deem to be one of the primary foundations for your overall health, wellness, energy, mental clarity, and life force, is the food you put into your body. Healthy, high quality food = a healthy, vital person. So when you can have some high quality food, that is…
OPEN UP THOSE HIPS BOYS AND GIRLS! Hip mobility drills: Seriously, besides the pun of the opening line, you need to make sure your hips are moving optimally. Take a look at these pics: What do you notice? Other than pulling some moves that you and I wish we could, notice the angles at the…
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