Surfing athleticism includes dynamic exercises, stretches, and movements to enhance strength, mobility, eliminate restrictions, and promote fluid motion.
Surf Shoulders Exercises… Do em’! Paddle… hurts… Paddle… hurts… It… hurts.. You need Shoulder Exercises like Shoulder Clocks. That is not a fun way to surf. As a surfer, you know how important it is to have strong and healthy shoulders to paddle and maneuver through waves. However, it’s not uncommon to experience frustration and…
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…
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…
GET LOOSE AND MOVE! Surfing stretches: 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…
Smash Out Gym Time, Surf Your Ass Off, or Get Zen and Rest? Primary Rule: If there is surf… then get your ass in the water and surf! But should you surf or rest? To progress at this completely awesome sport/lifestyle.. surfing.. you’ve essentially got to be pretty damned fit, and just spend as much…
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,…
Surfing Shoulder Warmup For That Heavy Paddle-out How Well do you Warmup Your Shoulders? Just a few arm swings? WOW, you’re really getting those intrinsic scapular and shoulder stabilizers warmed up…getting your thoracic spine mobilized, cervical range of motion increased, activating your triceps and serratus anterior……really getting primed for that 200meter paddleout… That’s sarcasm, hopefully you picked…
KB Circuit Training Kettlebell surf workouts: One piece of equipment, one hell of a workout. Kettlebells. I’ve had several people asking for some Kettlebell surf workouts from the Surf Strength Coach Facebook page, so I finally got it together and filmed one. A kettlebell can be a really great piece of training equipment…. But, as…
I want to address a question that has been coming up pretty often from people following surfstrengthcoach.com. A typical question is this “you’ve got so much good information on the site and loads of exercises, but I could use some advice as to designing a surf training program for myself or how to put a…
Fix Your Shoulders, Increase Spinal Rotation, Paddle Pain Free I put up blog posts in the hope that people out in internet land will read it, use it, improve their surfing, and build a stronger more mobile body. And I hope that at least one person who reads this post actually tries this movement to…