Exercises to Improve Surf Conditioning are important for people learning to surf. Many have not been exercising during the pandemic era and many have put on some weight in this period. Getting surf fit may be a combination of losing weight and getting stronger.
Surfing demands strength, flexibility, and stamina. Most people after the first lesson say it is more technical than they expected and more tiring than they anticipated. Surfing is a full body sport. It needs upper body strength to push off the board. It requires lower body strength to lift your body into a standing position. It requires fluid movement and flexibility to coil and spring.
The Fundamental Exercises for Surf Conditioning
People taking up surfing who haven’t exercised their full bodies in a while will notice their own weaknesses. Pushing up off the surfboard requires some strength to lift your weight. Standing up on the surfboard requires some leg strength to lift your weight. Standing up requires flexibility to coil your foot under your butt so you can leverage your leg strength.
The best group of exercises to build strength and flexibility are push ups, burpies, planks, squats, and deadlifts. These five exercises will build upper body strength, lower body strength, core strength and flexibility. Weights can be used for squats and deadlifts after trying them without weights and being surf you have excellent form. Bad form leads to injuries.
Stamina can be increased with aerobic exercises. Walking is a start or biking, swimming, and treadmills. Start with increasing duration at a comfortable pace. Then the best aerobic conditioning is built by adding intervals. This is a minute or two when you increase your heartbeat and then relax into the comfortable pace.
Exercising increases the body’s metabolism so that more calories are burned while at rest. Exercising increases the body’s’ ability to surf longer and therefore more practice time. These exercises will make a person much more proficient in the necessary moves to catch waves and ride a surfboard.
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