I surf every chance I get. No matter how small. I wake up and drive down to the beach. If it's surfable I surf than come home and do yoga. If it's not surfable I go home and do yoga and maybe go for a run too depending on my schedule. And that's it. Try and eat healthy but don't go too crazy. No fast food. Nothing fried. Only eat chicken and fish, no red meat. It's working for me
I aim for 3-4 full body workouts per week-- basically every other day. I do not workout heavy within 2 days of surfing if forecast is good-- my priority is to be fresh for surfing when I have the opportunity and when there are good waves. Routines are pretty basic in terms of exercises. Generally, one upper body push exercise, one upper body pull exercise, one lower body exercise per workout. Upper body exercises are primarily body weight based. Pullups, dips, pushups, body rows. Key equipment: doorway pullup bar, gymnastics rings and a few light bands for increasing resistance on pushups. Main tool for lower body is a sandbag. Exercises like sandbag shouldering, bearhug squat, zercher squat, sandbag carries. To be honest, most of these are really total body exercises. Sandbag is such an awesome tool in my opinion. Cheap, no excuses. Once a week, I try to actually go to a gym to do a barbell based workout-- basically squats or deadlift. As good as I think the sandbag is, it is not best for lifting maximum weight. I'm a big fan of trap bar deadlifts recently-- seems like a much better reward/risk than straight bar squats or normal deadlifts (less stress on spine, lower back). I'm in my late 30s so I'm very focused on avoiding injuries. I am very, very gradual about increasing loads. I also just won't do certain exercises with heavy weights anymore (such as bench presses) or exercises that I think are too technically demanding (such as Olympic lifts). It's all about risk vs reward.
thanks for all the info. i have concluded that you are all a bunch of puzzies. just kidding. i think the consensus here is: -jerk off, a lot -if you crossfit, shut up. nobody wants to know how many box jumps you can do. -don't hurt yourself from trying to keep fit so you can't surf did i miss anything?
I have never stepped on a Carver Board. Sounds like fun, but I think I would be embarrassed scooting around on one in my hood. I hike, bike, pullups, ab work, pushups, bosu ball stuff, swiss ball stuff, squats, deadlifts, resistance band stuff, various other types of free weight exercises, and stretching. I try not to keep things the same too long. I also bodysurf a lot when the water warms up. That helped a lot with my surfing last year. The constant breath holding and treading water is a beast of a workout. You should get on-board with that Emass...It'll whoop you after 45 mins in chunky waves.
i'll post screenshots of some of his pics when i get home. he's a snotty rich private school kid whos parents both went to yale. he gets a new board pretty much every summer, but i try my best to be nice to him so i can use his skimboard when it's flat. it flies
Swim 4 days a week- 3,000 to 3800 yards each practice Lift whole body once a week- legs sometimes twice a week Surf once a week- sometimes twice but you know how that goes (eat very clean- no late night binging and close to nature)
bench press, rows, leg ext, leg curls, light weight, more reps. Pushups, exercise bike. Started skating again (thanks rcarter for the hook up!). Close to playing hockey again. Mtn biking, various other minor exercise stuff, indo and goof board balance training, and SUP at the lake. When I SUP I go on long power paddles and will do prone paddling at times. Usually do at least 2000ft of prone paddling. Going for a ~9 mile SUP paddle Sat then Sunday mtn biking. I prefer to be outside getting my exercise whenever possible.
here is a short video on breath holding technics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KqaJzesyzI Hold your breath for 5 minutes would be nice .
I play basketball a few times a week. Thats what it is now. But not what it should be I'm overweight and weak at the moment. Going to start running, rowing, and doing calethenics and weights
Swim 1500 yards a day when no surfing is happening. Practice swimming underwater 25 yds. to increase stamina for being held under. What ever you do, don't sit around and be complacent. Get busy !!!
i gotta caution on the whole breath holding stuff...there have been quite a few, very fit (including a teenage junior nat qualifier down in Bmore) that have died recently from unsupervised, or, bad breath holding techniques. Basically, you should not do repetitive, high volume reps of holding your breath for a prolonged duration. when done, it greatly decreases the amount of CO2 in your system, you blackout, then you drown. so, be careful all. if you happen to have an undetected heart defect, then the chances are even greater. google, shallow water blackout. and again, be careful.
hope i don't sound preachy...but this single issue......is worse for ones' surfing......than the mighty trilogy of.........women, kids, jobs.
Good breath holding exercise: submerge your head into toilet bowl; flush as many times as you can in a row.
