The Surfing Trilogy
How to Lose Weight, Get Fit to Surf, Learn How to Surf
Three Books in One E-Book
What You Will Learn
Three books to make you a better surfer.
The 3 Week Plan book is about losing weight and getting fit for more recreation
The Get Fit to Surf book is specific to surf conditioning and strength building
The Learn to Surf Guide takes you through all the beginner techniques from riding foam waves to learning how to ride real waves.
Easy to read in 128 pages. Buy E-Book now on Amazon for $6.95
You Have to Get Started to Finish. The Quick Start to Lifestyle Change
Want to Get Fit for Surfing?
Surfing is full body sport and physically demanding. There is an opportunity to get in better condition with weight loss, strength building, flexibility, and aerobic fitness.
As a Health Coach and Personal Trainer as well as Surf Instructor, I coach people on improving their physical conditioning while they are taking surf lessons.
Get the surf lesson package combined with Coaching on how to lose weight and get fit. Read my Free E-Book and decide if you want to take advantage of the Surf Package that includes 3 Oceanside Surf Lessons.
The Surfing Package includes for 12 months Free a meal planning program designed by PerfectBody.me. It creates your daily meals after learning your goals and your weight loss target.
They have an app so you always have your plan with you. They provide a weekly shopping list to make it easy. My referrals without the Coaching Packages get 50% off but in the E-Book there is a Code to get 60% and 85% off.
The 3 Week Plan is designed for you to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Flexibility, and Aerobic Fitness. You will be surf fit, recreation fit, and discover a new lifestyle.
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Books for Health, Fitness, and Surfing
Everybody Can Surf
Get Fit to Surf
Get healthy and fit to surf and learn to surf at the same time.or set a goal of surfing to improve weight, fitness, nutrition, and health. This guide by a surf instructor/health coach/personal trainer gives the short version of how to lose weight, get strong, build stamina, develop nutrition, and learn to surf. Buy Now for $2.99 on Kindle or Paperback for $6.95 on Amazon. (E-Book cover different for the moment)
Get Fit To Surf and change your lifestyle forever. Surfing is a full body recreation. All the muscles need to be activated for strength and flexibility. Aerobic stamina is necessary for all the paddling. Beginners or those who want to surf can get in condition in a reasonable period of time. Its good to start with the minimum in building strength, increasing, flexibility, improving cardiovascular, and losing weight if necessary. Buy on Kindle for $2.99 or Paperback on Amazon for $6.95
Learn to Surf Guide
Audio Learn to Surf Guide
This is a comprehensive beginners guide to the fundamentals of surfing and the steps to progress to advanced surfing. From the pop up in foam waves to riding foam waves and executing maneuvers. 29 page E-book Kindle for $2.99 and Paperback on Amazon for $6.95
Same book as printed guide in audio version for those who prefer to listen. Learn the basics before taking a lesson, reviewing after a lesson or learning on your own. Surfing is technical and you won’t learn with your instincts. Audio version $7.95
Surf Instructions: Beginner to Advanced
The Surfers LIfe
Learn the fundamentals of surfing and how to progress to advanced wave catching and tricks. Plus all the other fun things like board selection and how waves work. 80 page E-book only on Kindle $2.99
Learn why the surfing life is so addicting. Why do surfers love their life and why is it a culture that has attracted millions of people. Buy Kindle $2.99 Buy Paperback $6.92
Seniors Get Fit to Surf
Lose 30 Pounds and Get Fit, Reverse Metabolic Syndrome, Mitochondrial Disease, and Diabetes
A great read for seniors that want to get fit with surfing as a possible goal. Age is functional not chronological. My oldest student was 77 and he was great. Learn how to get in shape or back into fitness as a lifestyle goal. Plus instructions on how to surf. Buy Now for $2.99 on Kindle or the paperback for $6.95 on Amazon
Many people these days want to lose major weight. They want to get fit for recreation or to surf. They need to get healthy. Getting healthy often begins with losing a major amount of weight. This is not easy, but with the right routine it becomes easier. The body fights weight loss as a self-preservation mechanism, but it can be manipulated into complying. I have lost 50 pounds years ago and recently 35 pounds to get below my high school weight. It feels great. Weight loss may also be the key to reversing diseases and disorders. Doctors will tell patients to reverse diabetes, lose 25% of your body weight (varies). What people don’t learn from doctors is whether they have insulin resistance, metabolic or mitochondrial disorders. Each can lead to serious health issues and disease. This books discusses all of this to better inform you if you have health issues and get you started on a journey to health. Buy the E book now on Amazon Kindle for $2.99 or the Paper Back on Amazon for $6.95
Most Popular Topics
Building Strength
Cardiovascular Fitness
Improving Flexibility
Balancing Restricted Diet and Metabolism
Surfing is a full body sport. Upper body, lower body and core strength are needed for beginners and advanced surfers.
Cardiovascular fitness is the capability to raise your heart beat in exercise. There are many levels of this fitness. One result is stamina; a surfing necessity.
There are few recreational sports that flexibility doesn’t improve. It is crucial for surfing. Touching your palms on the floor is just one indication of your flexibility.
Learning to eat less without the body thinking your are starving is an art and a science. It should be a gradual process that lasts a lifetime.
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Surf Lessons Are Necessary to Learn
Beginners Master the Pop Ups
Are Calories Important for Weight Loss?
How to Get Fit and Lose Weight for Surfing
Surfing is more technical than people expect and even after dry land lessons, the techniques need work in the water.
One of the most technical aspects for beginners is the pop up. It also requires physical strength in the right muscles.
Calorie balance has been the target for losing weight. But research shows insulin resistance is the real culprit.
Surfers need to understand the fundamentals and engage in exercises that improve their skills.
Learn to Surf
Learning to surf is great fun. Even my students who can hardly do it say it was great fun after a lesson. There is something about lying on a surfboard and catching a wave that is like no other experience.
Most people say that it is more technical than they expected and more work than they anticipated. Surfing is demanding physically and the better fit a person is the longer they can practice
Preparing to surf would be ideal for people that have been sedentary. Muscles lose their strength and flexibility when we spend too much time staring at screens. The pandemic has locked people down and most need to get back to exercise.
Getting Fit to Surf is a great goal because it opens the door to most any recreation that interests you. Any kind of aerobic exercise builds cardiovascular capability.
Flexibility is gained with the right floor or weight exercises. Strength can be simple as pushups but there is so much more.
Read the posts, buy a book, and get ready for your first adventure.
How to Lose Weight*
Eat Fewer Carbohydrates
If you want to lose weight, consider starting by avoiding sugar and starch (like bread, pasta and potatoes). This is an old idea: for 150 years there have been a huge number of weight-loss diets based on eating fewer carbs. What’s new is that reviews of modern scientific studies have repeatedly shown that low carb is at least as good, if not better, than other approaches to diet.
Obviously, it’s still possible to lose weight on any diet – just eat fewer calories than you burn, right? The problem with this simplistic advice is that it ignores the elephant in the room: hunger. Most people don’t like to “just eat less,” as it may result in having to go hungry forever. Sooner or later, many will likely give up and eat without restriction, hence the prevalence of “yo-yo dieting.”
While it should be possible to lose weight on any diet, some appear to make it easier and some to make it much harder.
The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less. Even without counting calories, overweight people tend to eat fewer calories on low carb.
Only Eat When You Are Hungry
Eating when hungry sounds simple: if you’re not hungry, you probably don’t need to eat yet.
When on a low-carb or keto diet you can trust your feelings of hunger and satiety again — something many people following a low-fat or standard American diet cannot do.
Feel free to eat as many — or as few — times per day as you feel is right for you. Some people eat three times a day and occasionally snack in between (note that frequent snacking could mean that you’d benefit from adding protein, fibrous veggies, or extra fat calories to your meals, to increase satiety). However, there’s some evidence that frequent snacking may not be wise when trying to lose weight.
Some people only eat once or twice a day and never snack. Whatever works for you. Just eat when you’re hungry, and don’t eat when you aren’t.
It also helps that low-carb diets and higher protein diets tend to reduce hunger. Studies demonstrate that people eating a very low-carb, ketogenic diet reduce their feelings of hunger and the amount of food they eat.
Multiple other studies demonstrate that adding protein to your diet markedly reduces hunger and food intake.
Eat Less Processed Food and More Whole Foods
Another common mistake when eating a low-carb diet is getting fooled by the creative marketing of special “low-carb” products. Remember: an effective low-carb diet for weight loss should be based primarily on whole food.
Prioritize what humans have been eating for thousands or likely millions of years, e.g. meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, butter, olives, nuts etc.
If you want to lose weight, avoid special “low-carb” products that are full of carbs. This should be obvious, but creative marketers are doing all they can to fool you (and get your money). They will tell you that you can eat cookies, pasta, ice cream, bread and plenty of chocolate on a low-carb diet, as long as you buy their brand. They’re often full of carbohydrates. Don’t be fooled.
How about low-carb bread? Be careful: if it’s baked with grains it’s certainly not low carb. But some companies still try to sell it to you as a low-carb option.
Low-carb chocolate is usually full of a kind of sugar alcohol —maltitol— that may actually be partially absorbed by the body, but which the manufacturer does not count as carbs. If the maltitol is absorbed, it is likely to raise blood sugar and insulin levels.
*These tips from Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt MD