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“12 Weeks to a Stronger Paddle, Faster Pop-Up, and More Confidence in the Lineup.”

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Every Program. One App. Your Goal, Better Surfing.

Skill, Power, pop-ups, paddling, mobility, endurance, confidence — it’s all here

  • Calm Under Pressure

    Train your breath, extend your hold, and sharpen your mental game in the surf

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    Peak for Your Next Surf Adventure

    Build endurance, strength, and confidence to surf more and recover quicker on your next trip.

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    Start Surfing With Style, Technique And Confidence

    By The End Of The Program, You Won’t Even Recognise Your Previous Surfing

  • Move Like a Surfer Should

    Fluid, strong, and pain-free, the fix for desk posture and stiffness

  • Strengthen Your Spine, Eliminate Pain, Train for Longevity

    Want better performance, long-term surf longevity, or pain relief? Surfers Back Solution has you covered.

  • A Rapid-result Flexibility Program for Moving Better and Surfing Fluidly

    Get More Flow In Your Surfing, Eliminate Pain, Prevent Injury, and Move Better in the Water.

  • Turn Your Arms Into Weapons Of Mass H2o Destruction

    Say Goodbye To Weak-ass Noodle Arms And Say Hello To Shoulders that Never Give Up

  • Build Peak Surf Fitness and Shred at your Highest Potential

    Follow-along Workouts So you Never have to Go To The Gym

  • Improve Your Surfing & Expand Your Understanding of the Art of Surfing.

    Learn proper technique and develop body and mind co-ordination to get your board exactly where you want it to be.

  • Master Skillful Breathing & Apnea And Step Up Your Game At Sea

    Breath Work for Surfers. Be Prepared. Be Confident. Be Safe

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    Learn The Tools To Take Control Of Your Body, Your Surfing, And Your Health

    Master The Art of Surfing With A Library Of Easy-to-Learn Tips

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    Start Surfing With Style, Technique And Confidence

    By The End Of The Program, You Won’t Even Recognise Your Previous Surfing

  • Proven, Step-by-Step Program for Better, Faster, & More Durable Surfing

    Radically increase Your Wave Count. Because Running Out Of Fuel When It’s Firing Sucks

  • The Ultimate Program That Delivers Perfect Pop Ups… Everytime

    Use These Proven Strategies To Perfect Your Pop Up And Never Blow Another Takeoff Again

Training & Fitness to Support Your Surfing

Surf Athlete gives you the tools to prepare, train, and recover like a pro athlete, transforming yourself in the process. Accessible anywhere and anytime.

YOU CAN WORKOUT ABSOLUTELY ANYWHERE.

Surf Athlete Fits Into Your Life – You Can Workout Anywhere, Anytime, With Minimal Equipment, or Only Bodyweight. It’s Up to You to stay surf-fit

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Stay on track and plan your workout week.

Track your progress and view full screen tutorials on every exercise.

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Explore all the variety of workouts!

SURF STRENGTH COACH Helps you to get stronger in all the different areas that surfing requires. week by week! You progress gradually, increasing the intensity in each workout.

  • ROTATION RESTORATION
  • CORE STRENGTH
  • LOWER BODY HIPS & ANKLES
  • PADDLING - STRENGTH EMPHASIS
  • FULL BODY INTEGRATION
  • FAST FULL BODY WORKOUT
  • QUICK UPPER BODY WORKOUT
  • QUICK LOWER BODY WORKOUT
  • DYNAMIC FLOW
  • SHOULDER HEALTH
  • ROTATIONAL CORE TRAINING
  • POST SURF RECOVERY ROUTINE
  • POOL WORKOUT BEGINNER
  • UPPER BODY STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE
  • LOWER BODY POWER AND MOBILITY
  • PADDLING ENDURANCE
  • ROTATION RESTORATION
  • CORE STRENGTH
  • PADDLING ENDURANCE
  • ROTATION RESTORATION
  • CORE STRENGTH
  • PADDLING ENDURANCE
  • ROTATION RESTORATION
  • CORE STRENGTH

What You Get, Where To Start

& How To FastTrack Your Training & Progression

Learn The Movements

Detailed Explanations for Every Exercise so you get the Most out of your training and learn exercises for the rest of your surfing life.

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And who said there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch? The Surf Athlete Academy is dropping free “meals” for days!

FREE Bonus #1: Breathwork Essentials

I don’t want to DROWN so I do Breath Work for Hold-downs & Confidence.

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.

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Flexibility & Fluid Surfing – 10 Minutes per day is all it takes

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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FREE Bonus #3: Surf Coaching & Technique Breakdowns

By practicing key surfing movements, you develop muscle memory for instant execution in the water, crucial for skill mastery. Beginners benefit immensely by establishing good habits early, speeding up their progression. This approach helps identify and correct the gaps between proficient and subpar surfing, enhancing overall technique.

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MEET THE GUY WHO’S TRYING TO
HELP YOUR SURFING…

Cris Surfing In Mentawais 2019

Cris Mills

On a daily basis I help people (predominantly surfers) improve performance, ranging from nutrition, to rehab, and sport specific training.

I know what a surfer needs to work on in order to maintain their interaction with the ocean (surfing). Not only from a personal standpoint, of being a freakish surf-addict who has an intention to keep charging, while also dealing with my own laundry list of injuries, but also having worked with countless surfers from rehab to skill development.

The intention is to keep surfing. In order to do that an individual’s perspective must shift to a focus on health and longevity. Your body is the vehicle through which you interact with the ocean. Keep yourself capable, and invest in your body, it’s movement capacity, it’s joint health, and it’s durability.

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The Most Comprehensive Surfing Training Programs Ever Created

You’re good to go.

As soon as you get the programs you’ll realise how tremendous of a resource this truly is, and how you won’t need any other surf training programs. You can, and will, refer back to these programs for years to come. As long as you’re surfing you will be using these programs, I guarantee it.

This will change how you train and how you move your body. Ultimately it will help you with your surfing. 

These are the tools that guide your workouts, track your progress, and remove the guesswork from your workouts. Have confidence knowing you are doing the best possible workout..

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back in 7 days

Here’s the deal:

Our programs are proven to deliver results, but your effort, dedication, and consistency are key. We fully back our programs, app, and products with customer success stories and time-tested methods. Our Surf Athlete Academy offers a 7-Day Refund Guarantee—cancel or refund anytime (minus transaction fees). The potential of your fitness and surfing is in your hands! What can your fitness and surfing become!?

Frequently Asked Questions

Cris is a full on frother, surf coach, massage therapist, performance coach, trainer, and Chek Practitioner. That’s a lot of titles that basically mean he has incredible insight into the human body and how it relates to surfing, and surfing better!

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.

No matter if you’ve trained in the gym for the last decade, or never lifted a weight before, the Surf Athlete App programs are designed to help YOU improve your movement, confidence, and fitness, so you feel better in the water.

Experienced surfers are in it for the long haul. If your body can’t move, you can’t surf. If you have any interest in surfing longevity you NEED to prioritise your health and fitness. The Surf Athlete App programs will give you the tools to support your surfing via improved fitness.

Programs in the app vary in duration and training based on the individual program. Some programs are 6 weeks, some are theory based, while others are 12 week follow along training schedules. All programs are delivered via the Surf Athlete App in an easily structured, and simple to follow format. You’ll be stoked on the training and the results.

A few of the programs require some basic training equipment, while other programs require a surf skateboard, and in some programs you only need your body.

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.

There are basic equipment requirements for some training programs, but with these basic tools, you’ll be able to train effectively for years to come.

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.

Yes! Absolutely!

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.

This is a digital program you will access via the Surf Athlete App, which can be downloaded in any app store. It is intended to be used via the app on your mobile device, our web-app which you can access on your desktop or laptop, or accessed on your iPad. You’ll register for the Surf Athlete App, given login information, and you can access your program whenever you want, wherever you want.

This course comes with carefully proofread subtitles for anyone who can’t hear the audio.  If English isn’t your first language, no problemo! We are currently offer the app’s content in Spanish, Portuguese and French

There will be a download button for each video or workout that looks like an arrow pointing downwards.

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.

These programs are amazing and deliver results. Yet those results rely on YOU putting in the effort, dedication, and consistency.

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 (minus transaction fees). 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!?

We use advanced encryption and security to protect your payment information. Your private data is never shared with anyone. We can’t even see your credit card details ourselves.

In case you don’t like paying by credit card online, you can also pay with your PayPal account.

Nope — you can do the program with minimal equipment. We give home and gym variations.

Absolutely. Surf skate, breathwork, and land-based training mean you can improve anywhere.

Most workouts are 20–30 minutes. You can train as little as 3x/week and still see results.

Yes — we’ve helped surfers in their 50s, 60s, and beyond improve fitness, flexibility, and confidence.



Why This Isn’t Just a Fitness Program


I thought surf training was just push-ups and running.
12 weeks later, I’m paddling stronger, my pop-up feels automatic, I’m surfing tighter turns on my surf skate, and I don’t panic when I get held under.
This program isn’t just fitness — it’s the whole package.
Matt, 42
Intermediate Surfer

SURF ATHLETE Pro is a complete performance system for surfers.

We don’t just make you “fit.” We teach you to move, breathe, and think like a better surfer.

  • Training plans
    you can do at home or in the gym.
  • Surf skate drills
    to sharpen technique without touching the water.
  • Video coaching so you know exactly what good surfing movement looks like — and how to make it automatic.
  • Breathwork sessions
    to help you stay calm, focused, and in control — even in heavy surf.

Imagine This… • You paddle out without your shoulders burning in 10 minutes. • You’re still fresh after a full session. • Your pop-up feels snappy and smooth, not clunky. • You’re making steeper drops and tighter turns. • You can actually enjoy bigger days without fear shutting you down.

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Who It’s For • Beginner to advanced surfers who want faster progress. • Surfers over 35 who want to surf pain-free and stay in the water longer. • Landlocked surfers who want to improve between surf trips. • Anyone who’s sick of missing waves because their body or technique can’t keep up.

What’s Inside Surf Athlete Pro

Land-Based Surf Fitness

Build strength, mobility, and endurance that carry over to your surfing. Bulletproof your shoulders, spine, hips, and knees so you can surf for years without pain.

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Surf Skate Training

Lock in correct movement patterns and board control on land — so when you hit the water, it’s already in your muscle memory.

Surf Technique Coaching

Learn exactly what efficient, powerful surfing looks like — and get drills to hardwire it into your body.

Breathwork for Surfers

Boost your CO₂ tolerance, calm your mind, and improve hold-down survival. Perfect for confidence in bigger waves or longer sessions.