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.
How Are You Surf Training? Is your workout benefitting your body? Are your surf workouts benefitting your surfing? Implement movements that will strengthen your body for the movements necessary in surfing. Utilize surf exercises that will strengthen your areas of weakness so those portions of your body don’t keep you out of the surf on a good day….
SURF WORKOUT CIRCUIT– GET OUTSIDE! Get outside, get some sun, and get in a quick workout that will help your surfing and your body. Check out the video for exercise directions and Surf Workout Circuit. Active Warmup- loosen up joints, get your glutes active, open up your hip flexors and adductors, mobilize your thoracic spine, and get your…
Part 2 – Rotational Exercise Surf exercise: “CORE STRENGTH!!!!” I hear this all the time, and see ab gimmicks, and people wasting their time with countless crunches. You’re a surfer! Train your body to become strong at surfing! Train your abdominals/ core in a functionally sound manner! Get your core strong in movement that benefits your…
CORE EXERCISE FOR SURFERS I want to show you one of the best core exercise for surfers…But first a small amount of preaching. “Core” is a word that gets way too much abuse in the fitness industry, and proper ways to train your core functionally are even more of an abuse. Face it, a bunch…
CORE STRENGTH FOR THE SURFER Part 1. You’ve Got To Be Stable Core training surfers: Do you want to throw down some heavy turns and powerful cutbacks? Well how strong is your core? The rotational power and strength needed for throwing out buckets of water is all coming from the mid-section, your core. While you’ve got…
SOME FANCY PUSHUPS – Surfers Perfect Pushup Surfers Perfect Pushup – Progressions: All surfers can benefit from working on pushups, from increasing your core strength to improving stability of your shoulder girdle. It’s a great exercise with a lot of potential, IF you are doing them properly. Part 1 of the “Surfers Perfect Pushup” goes over…
FIGURE OUT WHAT’S WEAK, AND MAKE IT STRONGER! What’s limiting your surfing? Watch the video here Next time you are in the water for an extended period of time, give some thought as to what parts of your body are troubling you. What areas are weak or hurting? What portions of your body feel great with…
Stronger Legs WILL Improve Your Surfing Here’s a quick video for you guys. Two great movements, one advanced, one for beginners, to really improve not only your strength, and stronger legs but your stability as well. These would be great additions to the workout program you’ve already downloaded, or switch out the lateral lunges for…
MY SURF WORKOUT I thought you guys may enjoy seeing what I’ve been working on lately, my surf workout. This is a variation of what I’ve been into for the last few weeks. I’ve got some specific issues I’ve been working with regard to a knee, which has been a real pain in the ass…
Save Your Knees, Mobilize Your Ankles! Rasta, pulling off a pretty serious bottom turn. I want you to focus on the rear foot, especially the angle of the lower leg, or the amount of dorsiflexion at the ankle. What the hell is dorsiflexion? It’s movement of pulling your foot/toes towards your knee. And without proper…
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