Surf Athlete Training Program
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
Is Your Body Holding Back Your Surf Progression?
Would a stronger & more flexible body help you to enjoy your time in the ocean?
Your fitness and health is ultimately the foundation for your surfing. So ask yourself these questions: When you get in the ocean, how does your body feel? Are you fluid, strong, and powerful? Or flailing, out of breath, and frustrated? Gassed out arms and breath? A low back that’s pissed from 30 minutes of paddling? That sounds damn frustrating. The art and skill of surfing can’t be built upon a body that is stiff, weak, overweight, and unhealthy. If that sounds like your surfing and your body, you ARE LIMITING your surfing, and YOU CAN fix that.
Radically Enhance Your Surfing by Improving Your Body
Move Fluidly, Athletically, & Powerfully.
Build dynamic strength & endurance that carries over to your movement in the ocean.
Train using Professionally Designed Workouts.
Follow routines so you truly benefit & improve like a surfer needs to.
Build a stronger and More mobile Body
Improved endurance, shoulder health, dynamic flexibility, core strength, so you’re not limited in the surf.
Discover a Surf-Specific Training Program that Builds “Surf Athleticism“
Enhance Your Surfing & Unlock Your Potential by Building a Body That Has Endless Endurance and Surfs Powerfully
- Surf fluidly, and powerfully without bodily restrictions.
- Spend more time in the water and catch more waves!
- Proven powerful exercise deliver noticeable results in less time
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COURSE CONTENT
WHAT’S IN THE PROGRAM?
12 Weeks of Simple & Effective Training to Support Your Surfing
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
PHASE 3
BONUS
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Phase 1
Fundamental Surf Patterns And Mobility
Build Fitness That Supports Your Surfing This is your introduction to true “surf-fitness”. Drills to improve your fluid mobility, Cardio to build your Endurance Engine, Workouts that Develop Dynamic Strength. This is Movement, Training, and Fitness Designed Specifically for Surfers.
Phase 2
Develop Surf Movement Strength & Body Function
Challenging and shockingly effective strength, flexibility, and endurance workouts. Develop higher intensity cardio and endurance for heavier surf sessions and never gassing out. Build flexibility to new levels of fluid movement & Surfing. Strength Development that is tailored for surfers that need to be quick, coordinated, agile, and fit. Enhanced durability for longevity in the surf.
Phase 3
Dynamic Movements & Surf Power Development
This is professional level training that you’ve accessed through smart, efficient, and well planned progression. As soon as you feel the first workout, you’ll immediately know why you’ve trained to get here! This IS training for surf performance. This is how you’ll train for the REST of your life. This is training that prepares you for the rigors of surfing and endless fun in the ocean.
Get 2 Free Bonus Programs When You Start Today
FREE Bonus #1: BREATH WORK
Learn Breath Work that could literally save your life—boost focus, calm your heart, build confidence in heavy surf, and elevate performance.
Breath is a powerful tool to influence your health, performance, and surfing. In this series, you’ll learn proven methods—from breathing basics to breath hold training—used by top experts and taught to clients every day. These are some of the most efficient breath techniques out there, perfect for improving your training, recovery, and surf performance. 1.5 hours of content 10-video series Value: $99
FREE Bonus #2: Paddling Endurance Workouts
Most of your time in the water is spent paddling—not surfing. These targeted paddle workouts build endurance, reduce fatigue, and help you catch more waves with stronger strokes.
If you don’t surf often, paddling can wear you out fast—and that gets frustrating, quick. These workouts are designed to build your “work capacity,” so you can paddle stronger, longer, and actually enjoy your sessions. Endless Paddle Power Train for long paddle outs, repeated duck dives, breath holds, and nonstop arm movement. Build upper body durability and boost your endurance buffer. Value: $99
Improve Your Surfing by Building the Foundations that Surfing Requires from Your Body.
- Art & Skill Better surfing is built with time in the water, developing the Art & Skill of Surfing. This is technical and coaching aspect of surfing.
- Performance Aspects Strength, Power, Endurance, & Flexibility are the base that allows you to effortlessly work on the “skill” and technique of surfing.
- Surf Foundations The Fundamental requirements for the body so that it can function optimally in the ocean.
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Equipment Required To Train
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Peanut Trigger Ball
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Olympic Rings
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Kettlebell
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Dumbbells
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Suspension Trainer
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Full Circle Resistance Strap
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Foam Roller
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Exercise Ball
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MEET THE GUY WHO’S TRYING TO
HELP YOUR SURFING…
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 a small fee). The potential of your fitness and surfing is in your hands! What can your fitness and surfing become!?
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Matthew J Pirofalo –
I’ve been very pleased with Cris Mills content over the years and when he put the app together, I was very stoked. The programs within not only help to improve your surfing abilities, but help you improve your overall fitness. Great stuff. Thanks Cris.
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Rikm –
have just completed 12 week Surf Athlete program. Not only has it helped to improve my surfing, it has helped with my fitness & set me up with long-term joint mobility health. Highly recommended for all surfing levels.
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Rob Feiner –
This app has given me back my mobility! I am more flexible and stronger than I’ve been in years. Turning 40 and now a father of two, I can play with my kids pain free which is awesome.
I have completed the surf athlete, pop up fixer and the cardboard surfer all of which I recommend most highly. Changed the way I workout and I would continue to purchase Cris’ content as he puts it out!
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Rob Feiner –
This app has given me back my mobility! I am more flexible and stronger than I’ve been in years. Turning 40 and now a father of two, I can play with my kids pain free which is awesome.
I have completed the surf athlete, pop up fixer and the cardboard surfer all of which I recommend most highly. Changed the way I workout and I would continue to purchase Cris’ content as he puts it out!
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Jamie Bennett –
High-quality content, easy to follow, and most of all, the outcomes are achievable, the exercises are specific and the layout is easy to navigate a must for a busy professional who does not have a lot of time. My fitness improved quite quickly and with this amazing run of swell and epic sand in Northern NSW i am finding 3 hour surfs are easy!
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Simon Colver –
Despite being a serious surfer and sportsman for my whole life, Cris Mills’ surf athlete program and blogs have genuinely changed my approach to sports, health, and fitness.
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Frenchfranck –
The surf Strength coach app is easy to follow you have all you need for improving and maintaining optimal surf fitness
In his app Cris combine all the essential practices breaks it down well in easy to understand videos
I ve been going to the physio on and off for quite a long time mostly for for stiffness and back problems by chance my physio work also for a top rugby team (UBB 1st in the french championnat before the COVID )
and he introduced me to the
foamroller IT S IN THE APP
Foundation training IT S IN THE APP
I did a week-end introduction to the Wim Hoff
Method to improve my breathing in some way IT S ALSO IN THE APP
and it s mean that Cris clearly knows his stuff
You can feel that the workouts are effective and you gain in strength and movement every time you go back in the water
I can t wait to take a surf trip with him and to be coach
And honestly I m not the type of person to do reviews and certainly not in english but this app and all the knowlege inside is worth it
Frenchfranck
(sorry for the broken english )
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Kevin Talty –
My lung spontaneously collapsed (spontaneous pneumothorax) June of 2018. After being in the hospital for a week, I wasn’t allowed to lift more than 10 lbs. for 2 months. Lost almost all muscle, energy and endurance to be able to surf for any length of time or on rougher days.
The day I was able to start physical activity again I started the Surf Athlete Program on the app, 3 months later I finished the program, strong and can paddle out, continuing to build muscle and endurance. I actually went through it a 2nd time and in better shape now than I was before the hospital and the breath work at the end has made me that much more confident out in the water.
Really want to say thank you to Cris for putting content like this out there for those who want to not just be strong but also be mobile! Your hard work into making an interactive workout to get into surfing shape has made all the difference!
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Ricky Jussal –
As someone who started surfing later in life and doing 2-3 hour sessions at 37 years old while being at a desk all day, I needed something to help me become more mobile, recover faster, and also allow me to surf multiple days per week while minimizing injury. The Surf Athlete Program along with the vast amount of resources Cris has made available for his clients has provided me with the ability to last longer in the water, reduce shoulder fatigue, open up my hips, and prevent back injuries. These are workouts I will use for the rest of my life and the ceiling for progression is quite high for athletes of all levels. I truly enjoy the program and have definitely seen improvements in my surfing and overall fitness.
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Yolanda Núñez –
There are a lot of training programs out there but this one covers all the points.It’s very complete from surfers to surfers. The only issue I have is I don’t have access to some of the exercise tools but all in all I can adjust and do most of them.
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Ramon Cassel –
It’s been a while I was looking for a surfing specific program that helps fix all surfing imbalances in your body. Chris’s dedication and passion it’s truly translated into a high quality program!
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perlync –
I’m a huge fan of Cris Mills and his programs. I’m a physician and I can genuinely say that Cris’s knowledge of anatomy and physiology is so impressive. Of equal importance is his ability to synthesize this info with easy to follow, step-by-step training programs. I have used the programs available on his App as well as direct 1-1 virtual coaching with Cris. In addition to his body knowledge, his love of the ocean and all things surfing shines through. Whether you are a late 40 year old like me looking to stay motivated with regards to fitness or an 18 yr old competitive athlete, you will find much benefit in being a part of the @surfstrengthcoach community.
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