Stretches For Surfers 2.0 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
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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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Li-chuan Egan –
Awesome body of knowledge presented in an easily digestible way… I don’t surf but was looking for something to help my teenage kids learn. In searching for what was available, I bumped into the Surf Strength Coach website and started looking into what it had to offer. I’m finding the information not only great for surfing, but for generally just keeping in shape and feeling so much better every day. Thanks Cris!
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Li-chuan Egan –
Awesome body of knowledge presented in an easily digestible way… I don’t surf but was looking for something to help my teenage kids learn. In searching for what was available, I bumped into the Surf Strength Coach website and started looking into what it had to offer. I’m finding the information not only great for surfing, but for generally just keeping in shape and feeling so much better every day. Thanks Cris!
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Samuel –
Dude. Do NOT give up, or in to keyboard jockeys. You’re shit is real, effective, and at 45 years old I have benefited greatly from it. I’ve been surfing for 30 years and have always kept myself fit through yoga and weightlifting but your program takes all that and makes it surf specific. After injuries from overuse – shoulder rehab, knee rehab – it has truly helped in recovery training and the surf athlete program has kept me shortboard fit, flexible and ready for good waves and surf trips. Just fucking amazing.
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Richard Doggett –
I tell people about your training all the time… I’m 43, I live by Land’s End here in Cornwall in the uk… I started your training last year at the beginning of lockdown, and it’s honestly done so much for me! I wasn’t massively unfit, but my surfing was a bit mediocre I now realise… From doing your program it’s become waaaay better, like I regularly get other surfers congratulating me on my waves! And I have to be carful not to take all the waves, because I’m much fitter and can paddle faster than most of the other surfers… also my confidence in the surf is much better, as I just don’t feel I’m going to get injured, as I feel much stronger.
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Paul Hixon –
LOTS of people, including me, use your app and your training. We understand them and how our bodies get them. We need them for our bodies but also for our minds, because as we unlock our stiff bodies, our minds feel better and we surf better and everything is better. You’ve been doing this for 10 years and you’re getting better at it and the programs and app get better and better. Well done!
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Camron Carpenter –
All of the insights and coaching you provide are effective and informative in an entertaining format with some good humor infused throughout. Your Surf Strength coach programs have already helped me immensely and I appreciate all the sacrifices you have made to make the SSC what it is and has been to me and so many others. Excellence & full dedication to craft is rare to find in this world and you exemplify it & that has helped me get better at and enjoy surfing much more than I had previously to being made aware of Surf Strength coach last year. I look forward to taking and retaking all of them and continuing on with fitness and nutrition provided through your formats. Thank you again and keep up the great work!
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Brennan Snow –
Just wanted to check in and let you know I am loving the 12-week training program. The daily structure and detailed guidance give me enough freedom to explore what’s best for me while producing noticeable results at the same time. I love how my body feels more loose and flexible than ever before in my entire 42-year life. I’m as stoked as ever and much of that comes from simply feeling primed and ready to surf.
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Scott Cumming –
I signed up to your program in 2016 and bought various programs from them on.
You programs have taught me more about my body than any other program, personal trainer or physiotherapist I have ever consulted.
While I still use physiotherapists and other programs for rehabilitation, strength and movement I have utilised the knowledge I have learnt from SSC to be the basis for my consultations with these. I think my physio appreciates that I can explain what I’m trying to work and know what I’m having issues with. I have also explained some of the movements I learnt from you and they say keep doing it.
What I would like to say is the noise (negative) about anything you do is probably a small percentage compared to the silent majority (like myself) who have benefited from your work.
I will continue using your teachings and you have made my life better by being better physically as I’m sure many do.
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Andrew Rinehart –
Cris, stellar program. I bought the complete set of packages and have been going through them all since. I’m in my 40s and current landlocked. The mobility and strength exercises have had a huge impact on my overall well being. The foundation training especially opened up a few things for me. Anytime I go through and rewatch a video I get something new out of it. I’ve been active my whole life, so I took your advice and cherry pick pieces out of each video to work into my routine and change it up. A little foundation work and stretching/mobility drills 6-7 days a week and added in body weight 4-5 of those days consistently. Workouts are between 15-45 minutes each day. Days I’m feeling rough I stick to breath work, and mobility. I’ve yet to jump into the nutrition, but years of bad habits take time to break. Thank you for putting all of this info in one place. I’m happy to let anyone know it’s worth every penny, probably more, (good on you for knowing your audience, we all want to spend our money on our next surf excursion). Like anything else though, if you don’t put in any work, you won’t get any out. Keep up the good work.
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Paul Stewart –
I have barely scratched the surface of the new programs. The amount of content is really mind-blowing. As with your original (2015?) Surf Training Success series (BG’s, baby!.. stayin’ alive) everything is so well thought out. This is something few will recognize. They will just start going through motions. The SSC series is so carefully crafted, it’s genius really, and most people don’t even realize it. Circuit progression alternates (for the most part) muscle groups throughout each movement – BG’s work hips, quad, balance, ankles, and some shoulder range of motion movement. Then it’s on to YogaPlex – (perhaps the best exercise on earth). Less of a strength move than a flow and stretch move, activating just about every muscle in the body. Perfect after BG’s. Lateral Ball Roll is next for core stability, isometric upper back, glute, and hip-activating side to side shuffle (another really unique exercise) Yoga Push-Up – The strength/endurance building movement for shoulders, chest, triceps rounds out Phase 1 Program A Circuit A. We’re not grinding set after set of the same exercise ’till exhaustion. Your programs are carefully designed to not overtax any one muscle group with successive exercises. This is training through multiple movements in a most beneficial sequence.
So just like your original series, I am dissecting and absorbing these new programs. I started the STS series all over again (it had been a couple years) a month ago so I am still on the “Learn” tab in Bodyweight Athlete … haven’t even gotten to the “Train” tab. There’s just so much in there. Articular rotations (CARS=Awesome!), skeletal routines, mobility evaluation tests (super valuable), stretching of course, and TISSUE RELEASE! Man, you thought of everything, and what’s more, the sequence is so well-thought out. People can learn the physiology and the techniques to gain (or regain) proper range of motion and flexibility to slowly strengthen the joints and muscles.
You are the master of surfing physiology. Your video instruction is so succinct. Fully explained, clearly demonstrated. Very impressive. Plus, you’re just a regular dude who loves the ocean and gives what he knows back to help the rest of us keep moving at a higher level. And you do it all with a genuine enthusiasm.
When you open up the surf trips again, I’d be all in, if you have space for a 62-year-old guy shortboarder who can still bust a move on occasion. One more trip to the Ments is on my bucket list, or maybe just as far but not as remote or intense, Maldives! Just let me know when!
Please feel free to use any or all of this long-winded testimonial as you see fit. I had a lot to say!
Much appreciated! Stay stoked!
Paul Stewart
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Steven Chang –
After using Cris’ surf coaching app for a year, I decided to contact him for help addressing my back injuries.
Cris provided valuable knowledge on how to strengthen specific muscles and provided specific exercises and routines. Following our private coaching session, he emailed an outline of what we discussed and provided great resources to improve my back and surfing.
I highly recommend his surf coaching app, and his personal coaching sessions, to anyone looking for longevity in the water and improvement in surfing.
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Tim Hyett –
This is a big thanks for your training programs that I have been doing consistently for 16 months now, depending on life and injury interference. so it took me 6 months to complete the 12 week surf athlete program. I really appreciate the time and effort for the detailed information.
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