The challenges when Seniors Get Fit to Surf are adapting daily routines the build full body fitness. Surfing demands strength, flexibility, and stamina. It is difficult if going from ground zero to getting surf fit.
Seniors often have a few activities they engage in daily to maintain a semblance of fitness. They may walk or bike or swim. Each is excellent but only part of a program for surf fitness.
The Basic Requirements of Surfing that Demand Fitness
The most difficulty most seniors have is over all body movement. All the muscles have to fire and the joints to comply to get a body off a prone position on a surfboard to the right stance. I observe most seniors catching a wave and then going through a painfully long process of pushing their body off the board and trying to get a foot under their body to stand up.
A surfer doesn’t have to do this fast, but they only have so much time as a beginner before they hit the beach on the foam wave. This motion of standing up is not assisted by walking, biking or swimming. It needs flexibility in the hamstrings, buttocks, and lower back. It needs the strength to lift the body off the board on one leg before the next one gets planted.
Paddling to catch a wave is strenuous and the most tiring part of surfing. It needs upper body strength and some power to pull with short strokes. Then the body has to recover to walk out to the waves and do it again. This process, not to mention trying to stand up and falling off, is tiring. A degree of stamina is necessary.
Getting in surf shape requires an aerobics program so the surfer could at least last an hour of practice. The surfer needs upper body strength which would be greatly served with pushups. One could also do bench presses and cables, but pushups would serve.
Next is the flexibility and developing the strength for more speed in the pop up. Three exercises are excellent. Burpies. Deadlifts. Squats. The squats and deadlifts can be executed without weights to begin. Watch YouTube for the right form. Burpies can be done each morning. Then the surfer should practice the pop up in their living room every day.
In a month, the senior surfer should start noticing some improvement and may be ready to try another surf lesson.
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