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.
Can you twist? Are you a fluid spiral 🧬, or a disjointed stiff immobile cemented human? Whether you need some loosening and improved “flexibility”, or you’re just after some feel-good movements to undo surf session induced tensions, give these a crack. From an evolutionary perspective, the human body is made to rotate. Gait (walking) is…
You pay to play; that’s the importance of surf session recovery. It’s all inputs and outputs. The yin yang of life. This rings true with exceptional loudness and clarity as the years continue to pass by and a life well lived accumulates its injuries and aches. I speak about this often with clients that I…
Surf Workouts at Home Does Corona have you on lockdown? If so, here’s a bunch of Surf Workouts at Home Yeah, a Netflix binge is good here and there (Tiger King is mental!), but this downtime is also a great opportunity to stay on top of your fitness. Assuming you’ve got kids, and they’re home…
It’s not just standing on wobble boards. What “surf fitness training” means to me is taking a realistic look at the movement requirements of the sport, and then taking an honest appraisal at your own strengths and weaknesses. Then it comes down to filling the gaps with smart and efficiently applied training. Here’s some higher…
A Full Sequence of Mobility Dills & Dynamic Surfer Stretches. It’ll Help You Move Fluidly. Movement: Dynamic flexibility, the capacity to be mobile through joints, and to move with ease, control, and strength. It’s pretty relevant to this whole surfing thing we take part in. It’s not going to suddenly make you rip, but it’s a…
“Top” lists are always a small act of futility. There is so much variability in the human body, and a countless variety of surfing exercises, it is grossly difficult to pull out some singular exercises and call them the best. The key with smart training is tailoring exercises to the individual, their goals, and their capabilities. This…
Training, Longevity, & Health Training Longevity Health: The Laws of your body, and more importantly the process of adaptation. That’s all life is really, a process of adaptation. Ability, willingness, and assimilation of new “stuff” in life, and adapting to it. That’s health, it’s your fitness, it’s your relationships, so adhere to the laws. Laws:…
Paddling Strength – Upper Body Strength – Better Pull-ups Let’s talk about Better Pullups. The commonly bastardized pull-up. I call them Golum pull-ups. Shoulders hunched up in the ears, head jutting forward in a futile attempt to get the chin over the bar, rolled forward shoulders with tensed up pecs, spastically kicking your legs….
Surf Better: Movement Practice & Surfing How do I surf better? This is absolutely not a list of the 3 exercises that will boost your surfing, or the 1 thing you need to do to boost your health, or any of that pervasive fitness clickbait. I’m going to do the opposite of that. I’m going…
I want you to be aware of Foundation Training. In today’s modern world, we are facing a significant problem: a disconnect between how our bodies are designed to move and how we habitually move them. We have become accustomed to sedentary lifestyles, where we spend most of our time sitting at desks or in front…
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