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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TRX Surf Workout – Get Some Straps How Absurd Is This Picture Oooooooohhhhh!!! Workout straps. Suspension training is all the rage in some training facilities, with some people doing some damn silly stuff on them. But in all seriousness, get some workout straps, they’re great for those of you that travel, and it’s always nice to…
Surfer Core Training.. Pushes and Pulls Baby! I’ve been doing some work with surfing-waves.com and this is a new piece I just did for them. Integrative surfer core training that focuses on dynamic movements… pushes and pulls. Sweet sweet exercise goodness. So much of surfing is rotational movement, and involves integrated chains of muscles. So,…
Surf Fitness Training – What the Fu&* is it? The “field” of surf-fitness training has jumped enormously over the past few years. You’ll find quite a few dvd’s now, some pros have some fitness flicks out, there’s a few guys online (myself included), and a lot of gyms near the water are offering this type of…
Back Pain Sucks and Ruins Surfing I’ve had some gnarly stuff with my back over the years, and I see some gnarly back stuff with clients. Back pain and surfing don’t mix. There is so much dynamic spinal movement in surfing, that it’s quite easy to piss off that spine, and when that happens, you’ll…
The Good & Bad of Fruit Smoothies… Surfer Nutrition: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, right now…. nutrition, the field of nutrition, the books on nutrition… it’s a mess. Too many people caught up in the latest food fad, the latest best seller celebrity diet book, and people becoming overly dogmatic. People seem…
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Surf Stretches – Hip Mobility – The Do’s & Don’ts Mobilize your hips, and it will make your knees and lower back more durable. Those are good things, especially if you want to surf into your 60’s, 70’s, and really push the rad-factor and surf into the 80’s and 90’s. If your hips are moving…
If your Knee Hurts… Your Surfing Hurts What this article will not be is an anatomy lesson. What it will be is a few simple things for you to start doing if you’ve got some knee funk…. cause knee funk turns into surf funk. And knee pain when surfing is no fun. Myofascial Leg Work……
Jumprope Circuits – Surfing Endurance Endurance, I need some more of it. This last weekend was really my first time back in the surf (some solid waves too 4-6foot) in about 2.5 months. I had been out of the water with a shoulder injury, and would have liked to have eased it into some smaller surf,…
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Full Body Surf Training – Complete Workout Surf Training: I’ve said this before, and will once again reiterate. The human body is designed to move. Run, swing your arms, spin, jump, bend…. movement. These actions require interactions of muscles throughout your body, muscle chains, or fascial lines is what we call them in the health…
Learn How To Do A Pushup… Then PopUp Surf-Fitness is all about building a stronger body so you can do what makes you happy in life, and do it better… surfing. Your surf fitness training had better have some type of pressing training, and for more carryover to our sport, throw in some pushups to…
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