Lower Body Archives

Surfer Hip Stretches

Get Your Hips Moving – Here’s 3 Key Hip Stretches The hip joint is structurally designed to move. Modern living, lack of movement, seated postures, these things over time severely restrict your hip joint motion. Desk Jockeys, Older Guys, People that are always really stiff…. Work on this stuff. Your hip needs to be able to […]

Lower Body, Mobility Exercises, Upper Body

Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Surfing

5 Ways to SHREEDDDDDDD!!!!! The best way to improve your surfing, is surfing. Clearly. For those of us that aren’t fortunate enough to get in the water and surf perfect 3-5foot everyday, we need to do some land based training. I’m going to give you the top 5 ways to improve your surfing. There are simple […]

Lower Body, Mobility Exercises

Surf Stretches – Hip Mobility

Surf Stretches – Hip Mobility – The Do’s & Don’ts Mobilise 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 properly, […]

Lower Body, Mobility Exercises, Surf Pain, Surfing Exercises

Get Rid of Knee Pain

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. Myofascial Leg Work… Get Rid Of Knee Funk You can […]

Lower Body, Surfing Exercises

Surfing Endurance Training

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, […]

Lower Body, Surf Balance, Surf Core, Surfing Exercises, Upper Body

Strong Legs Strong Core SuperSet

Stronger Legs-Stronger Core-Stronger Surfing I’m all about supersets… essentially combining exercises that focus on different muscle groups. This is just really time effective and allows for a greater energy expenditure, so you’re not only getting a good workout and getting ripppppeeeddddd, but also building some endurance. Saving time, getting in quality movement training, improving your strength […]

Lower Body, Surf Core, Surfing Exercises, Upper Body

Top Surf Exercises – Full Body Moves

Full Body Surf Exercises – Muscle Isolation is NOT the answer Boys and Girls… you’re surfers, you move dynamically, you need flexibility, you need to be strong, you need to be highly coordinated, but like I said at first, you gotta move dynamically!!!! Get strong in movements! Develop a body that is strong and fluid […]

Lower Body, Surf Balance, Surf Core, Surfing Exercises

Balance and Core Superset

2 Movements… You Should Do Them! Some essential basics for being able to surf are a functionally strong and pain free core, and the ability to balance on an unstable surface. So train to get better at those physical requirements!! You may be asking “How!?!?!” Well, you need a foam roller, or an indo board, and a stability […]

Lower Body, Mobility Exercises, Surf Shoulder, Surf Stretch, Surfing Exercises, Thoracic Spine Mobility, Upper Body

Surfing Stretches – Full Body Flexibility

GET LOOSE AND MOVE! If you can’t move well, you sure can’t surf well. As a surfer, dynamic flexibility and ease of movement is truly important to not only surf with some style, but to stay injury free as well….. or you can just keep poo-stancing and looking rad! Seriously, as surfers, we’ve got to be quickly […]

Lower Body, Mobility Exercises, Single Leg Work

How To Loosen Up Tight Hips

Tight Hips Can Wreck Your Back and Hurt Your Surfing Why should you even care about stretching and mobilizing your hips?!?! Excellent question, so get ready to learn. The dynamics of surfing require that your joints be able to move in extremely large ranges of motion, freely and quickly. Think about the simple act of a pop-up, […]