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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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..
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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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Firas Kour –
Perfect program to get in shape and improving your surf fitness 🙌🙌
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Firas Kour –
perfect program to get in shape and improve your surf fitness 🙌🙌
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Alistair Mckay –
A body suffering 35 years of being treated like luna park is now ache free.
Shoulders don’t hurt when paddling;
Thorax mobile again;
Sciatica disappeared;
Piriformis pain free;
Neck mobile;
I actually recommend the program to MTB and kitesurf mates for their strength and mobility.
Wanna keep surfing hard? Here’s the answer to avoid buying a fat c–t board cause you can’t paddle anymore.
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Scott Christian –
A year ago I was coming off a neck injury, plus just years of bad posture, bad mechanics, too much sitting at a desk, etc. Dipped a toe in the water with some of Cris’ Youtube videos, and then decided to take the plunge with the Surf Athlete App. I honestly can’t say enough great things about it. The workouts have not only improved my surfing, but improved every aspect of my physicality in regular life. The 12-week program really does a great job of allowing you to build up but also learn about what it is you’re building. And all of the extras–breathwork, recovery, paddle workouts–are excellent as well. Even after finishing the program it’s still a near daily resource for me. I use the cardboard surfer program as well, and just am a huge fan of all of it. Especially the fact that it’s so instructive as to the how’s and why’s of your body mechanics, and how much they teach you about your physiology. I’m also regular user of Foundation Training, which I know Cris is a fan of, and definitely recommend combining the two. It’s a great way to prehab/rehab your body not just for surfing but everything. At 43, my body is definitely not as durable as it once was, but this program, along with Foundation Training, has been a game changer. Thanks Cris!
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Amanda Bird –
I recently finished the 12-week Surf Athlete program and just purchased the Perfect Pop-Up program. I had previously been watching many of Cris’ free videos on YouTube and managed to piece together workouts here and there. I made a commitment to the Surf Athlete Program as I desired a more focused program to really push myself to improve as a surfer. I 100% recommend this is you are looking to do the same and please listen and watch carefully. Cris provides very thorough explanations and helpful videos throughout. I found it very beneficial to replay the videos I had already watched over and over through the different phases as I did each phase and workout. I would catch helpful tips that I hadn’t digested properly earlier on! Not only has my overall body mobility significantly improved but I found that some annoying aches and pains associated with daily sedentary work life mixed with relatively short-duration and intense surfing and other workouts started to fade. The benefits Cris mentions throughout this program are quite attainable if you stick with it and put in the time. My surfing has vastly improved, particularly my pop-up and range-of-motion ON my board while riding. This program was not at all difficult mentally for me; I really looked forward to my Surf Athlete sessions! I now add them in before or after surfs, between work calls, or whenever works best as it’s easy to jump away from my desk at home, give it all I’ve got, and then return to work rejuvenated and feeling mobile and light! If you are considering this, please go for it! Thanks Cris!! Looking forward to the next ones!
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Charlie Chuah –
I feel like Cris has put together a truly comprehensive dry land surf training programme! It combines a variety of exercises,moves, mobility, tissue release, and general advice which you can learn and implement in your own training routine and conditioning. I have tried other types of personal training to not be as satisfactory as very often its more about a ‘pain train’ and less about learning and understanding movements and skills that i can carry over in the future. This programme is def legit. Cris is a really sound guy too that seems to be genuinely invested in sharing everything he’s learnt to us so we can move better and be better surfers 🤘 Thanks dude!
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Thomas Reyes –
I’m on week 2 of surf athlete training. (Second attempt at committing to the program). I’ve been surfing for over 20years now and am always trying to find ways to keep my body in optimal surfing condition. I feel like I’ve done a good job. I thought I was flexible, core strong, and agile. After the first week of training with the program, I now see that I have a lot more weakness in several areas. Flexibility, mobility, and core strength. I now know that I am getting the types of instruction that will help me get to where I need to be for the winter season and for surf trips where you surf 3 times a day. The stretches, the dynamic flow, the deep tissue work is working. It’s hard work, especially learning the movements, but already I am feeling looser, faster, and more energized in the water. My plan is to be completely through phase 3 by October and be able to continue a healthy routine for the rest of my surfing life. Chris, thank you so much for this program! As an aging surfer of 44 years, I feel like I can still progress again. Put in the work and reap the rewards. Super pumped to surf!
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Marcelo Correia –
I am so stoked with this program. If you want improve your perfomance and catching more waves, this program is for for you. The fun is guaranteed. I am looking forward to come back surf and fell how my performance is, i am felling my body ready to surf.
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Simon Colver –
I am a sporty guy and have trained hard for years, but the I cannot overstate the improvement that Cris Mills’ practices have had to my physical capabilities, my general comfort levels, and my understanding of how my body works.
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Rob –
Love the program. Well structured. Responds to emails/questions quickly too!
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Roland Meyer –
The surfathlet Programm brings you back into an amazing Shape and it is fun to do. Great mix of Stretching and Strength exercises.
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Angel Hdez –
AFTER TESTING THE FREE PROGRAM AND BEFORE I FINISHED IT FOR WHAT I LIKED, I BOUGHT THE 12 WEEK PROGRAM. I AM DELIGHTED. PAIN I HAD BEFORE AT THE END OF THE SURF SESSION IS NOW DISAPPEARED. AS SOON AS I FINISH I WILL BUY THE POP UP SINCE I HAVE PROBLEMS IN TAKE OFF WITH OLDER WAVES. I RECOMMEND THIS PROGRAM TO ALL SURFERS AND LEVELS. THANK YOU
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