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What Do You Want Your Surfing To Become?
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All The Tools You Need To Quickly Advance Your Surfing
fitness
Surf Trip Preparation »
This program will help you in your surf trip preparation - exercises and drills you need to get ready for the trip of your dreams!
technique
Surf Skate 2.0 »
Learn proper technique and develop body and mind co-ordination to get your board exactly where you want it to be.
mobility
Stretches for Surfers 2.0 »
Enhance your surfing performance with the Stretches For Surfers 2.0 Program. Get More Flow In Your Surfing, Eliminate Pain, Prevent Injury, and Move Better in the Water.
fitness
Bodyweight Surf Athlete »
Build Peak Surf Fitness and Shred at your Highest Potential. Get Strong, Get Flexible, and Move Better in the Water.
fitness
Endless Paddling Endurance »
Say goodbye to weak-ass noodle arms, and say hello to crushing heavy rips with this Paddling Endurance Program for Surfers.
mobility
Surf Mobility »
Enhance your mobility, flexibility, and range of motion, helping you move more fluidly on the waves. Take your surfing to the next level with the Surf Mobility Program.
fitness
Surf Athlete Training Program »
Surf Athlete Training Program, a proven, Step-by-Step Program for Better, Faster, & More Durable Surfing.
technique
The Perfect Pop Up »
The ultimate guide to fixing & improving your pop up... For good. Improve your surfing pop up technique and get a better movement on waves.
breath
Breathwork Essentials »
Breathwork essentials help with hold-downs, confidence, trust, and the physical ability to hold your breath for longer periods of time can be an incredible thing for your surfing.
technique
Cardboard Surfer »
A Surf Technique Program That Changes the Way You Surf And How You Understand Surfing. Improve Your Surfing by Learning True Surf Technique.
fitness
Surf Academy »
Become Stronger, Durable & Flexible for Your Next Surf Session with the #1 Online Surf Training Program. This is the Netflix of Surf Fitness.
technique
Surf Fundamentals »
Designed to develop effortless style, technique, and confidence, this program ensures a substantial improvement in your surfing abilities.
Nutrition
Surfers Nutrition »
Fuel Your Surfing: Essential Nutrition Strategies for Peak Performance. Eat Smart, Surf Strong with Nutrition Secrets for Enhanced Endurance.
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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!
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.
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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MEET THE GUY WHO’S TRYING TO
HELP YOUR SURFING…
Cris Mills
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
If English isn’t your first language, no problemo! We are currently offer the app's content in Spanish, Portuguese and French
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.
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. 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!?
In case you don’t like paying by credit card online, you can also pay with your PayPal account.
Richard H. (verified owner) –
I feel so much better and can move so much better.
I’ve only started the surf doa program and am finding it AMAZING!!
I’ve had some back and neck problems for decades that nothing really helps that much (chiro, PT, accupuncture, foundation work, osteopath, etc etc) while everything offered some relief, I’m finding Surf DOA to be getting to the core issue which is space around the nerves and WOW!
Just wanted to send a huge thank you!
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Read MoreArthur K. –
Your inspiration encouraged me!
Thank you for all your information & technical advice. It’s slowly coming together. My hips are getting better. I think it will take a lot more time but unbelievable results. I haven’t trained for over ten years. I bumped into your stretching programs. I loved it.
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Read Moregerry l. –
The results are AMAZING! ZERO PAIN!!
Thank you for the programs.. I am about 6 weeks into the stretches and am virtually pain free. Also, you can see from the pictures I’m improving in my flexibility, hands up and eyes and head focused to my target. Even at 59 years old it’s possible to regain my confidence.
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Read MoreDavid H. –
Keep up the good work Cris, your knowledge, passion and commitment to what you do is truly admirable.
What you’re providing the average punter like me with, is a truely valuable resource to help us to enjoy our passion for surfing at a deeper level, and subsequently live a healthier life in the process.
I’ve been a follower of your posts for probably 8 of the last 10 years, adopting the odd stretch or movement into my (sometimes) daily routine, and found them really beneficial. I appreciate your take on how us humans should be able to keep moving in the way we were designed to. It all makes perfect sense.
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Read MoreMichael Zazzali –
I have always found your information to be insightful, smart, and of course entertaining.
I’ve been following you for the last few years. I have been surfing only 8 years and initially always looking for intelligent info on how to advance my surfing. As a physical therapist for over 27 years I’ve become critical of what info is on the internet. I realize how much useless and at times even harmful information is out there. I told all of my surf friends to check your site out and they have enjoyed learning from you.
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Read MoreJustin M. R. (verified owner) –
A Great Teacher + Real Training + Great Platform
Cris Mills has been focused on surf training for a long time, putting out great videos when there were none to be found anywhere. His approach is backed by workouts that really work and his teaching ensures that you can perform every action on your own and build at your own pace. Since he was first posting videos on YouTube, he has dedicated himself to these teaching and developed a great platform to manage and track your workouts, so you can progress towards great goals. I’ve used three of his programs now, and I couldn’t be happier with the results.
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Read MoreBen C. (verified owner) –
Thank you so much for creating this program
The App rocks! It’s helping me more than any physical practice, and that is translating to many things in life.
Thank you so much for creating this program, and the App, and for the generous discount!
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Read MoreDamian G. (verified owner) –
It improved my surfing technique out of the water
The surf skate program is great and has helped me make a huge improvement on my surfing technique. It has also helped me to get my partner and kids on to a surf-skate and immediately get them going and thinking about how they need to position themselves. For me it is mostly about getting as much surfing practice in as i can when i’m away from the water – for that it has worked a treat.
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Read MoreJosh S. –
To good to miss this amazing program!
Been smashing the program and have never been as flexible as I am now absolutely frothing on it. Thanks for taking the time to put that content on the app it’s seriously changed my surfing.
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Read MoreMindi R. (verified owner) –
So stoke! Keep inspiring.
This is awesome, Cris! My hubby and I LOVE the app, tutorials, and updates. I use the Flow routine whenever I need to reset or have an active recovery day.
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Read MoreJoshua Keen Server (verified owner) –
Perfect pop up program has been revolutionary
The best things I’ve learned from your programs are that all of the movements you teach should be natural movements that our bodies should already know how to do. When I commit to training and get these new movements into my range of motion I notice that I’m able to move more freely. Another great moment has come from learning when to stop training if something doesn’t feel right and that “pain is not gain”! Although I get a great workout, I always feel more charged up afterwards and warmed up rather than defeated and needing a day of rest.
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Read MoreDaniel G. (verified owner) –
Change your surfing
Comprehensive, step-by-step guide to becoming a better surfer. Changed my surfing.
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