Discover expert tips and exercises for a stronger upper body, tailored for surfers. Boost your performance on the waves with our workouts and advice.
Paddling Strength – Upper Body Strength – Better Pull-ups Let’s talk about Better Pullups. The commonly bastardized pull-up. I call them Golum pull-ups. Shoulders hunched up in the ears, head jutting forward in a futile attempt to get the chin over the bar, rolled forward shoulders with tensed up pecs, spastically kicking your legs….
Stretches for Surfers – Upper Body Joint Health & Movement Drills Movement. That’s the key. Modern living doesn’t require it. Convenience of technology has taken out the need to use your body. No longer do people have to move 3-dimensionally in their day to day living. Then you combine that complete lack of movement, the lack…
Injuries, Lack of Endurance, and Lack of Flexibility. That’s probably what I hear about the most from people, or what I see as the general bigger issues. With this video and post, we’ll tackle the lack of endurance. Be sure to watch the Upper Body Surfing Workout video below. A key is making sure you have…
Surf Training – Pop Ups – Core & Upper Body Do you think your Pop-Ups could be faster? They probably could be, especially if you’re surfing some faster “reefy” type waves, or even if you’re just starting out and getting the hang of popping up to your feet. I get asked quite often about Pop-up…
Learn How To Do A Pushup… Then PopUp Surf-Fitness is all about building a stronger body so you can do what makes you happy in life, and do it better… surfing. Your surf fitness training had better have some type of pressing training, and for more carryover to our sport, throw in some pushups to…
THIS IS HOW YOUÂ CAN PADDLEÂ STRONGER AND FASTERÂ Here are the BEST METHODS of surf paddling training for building an upper body that can handle some heavy paddling. Paddle training: This original post (below) was written a few years ago. It will give you a huge amount of insight. These more recent posts touch in detail…
Upper Body Duck Dive Training & Exercises Surfing. Its one of those skills that to really improve upon, you just gotta spend time in the water. Practice, practice, practice. BUT, you can do a lot out of the water with some well designed surf training to make sure your body is prepared to surf, and has…
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…
DROP AND GIVE ME 20, BUT THEY HAD BETTER BE DAMN GOOD PUSHUPS. Surfers Perfect Pushups! Men usually love them, hell, it just feels tough banging out a bunch of pushups. Women usually stray away from them, which they really shouldn’t… women if you want some hot abs, then get good with pushups! Surfers, male…