Before I highlight a few differences in training between a beginner and a more advanced surfer and even PROs, I would like to point out 2 things.
a) Training is always personalised, even via the app and
b) There are 3 options how training can take place.
1) 👥 In-Person, 2) 📽 LIVE (video call), 3) 📲 App (free with option 1 & 2) or
any combination that works for you…
BEGINNERS
Fitness : Nutrition: Video Analysis
For beginners and even the complete novice, S&C+Nutrition is about improving balance, stamina, agility, whole body strength, paddle power, posture, fitness and in some cases weight loss.
Would you “just turn up” to a swimming gala if you haven’t been swimming or, to a marathon event if you haven’t been running? Surfing should be treated the same way!
EXERCISE TO SURF. DON’T SURF TO EXERCISE!
WEEKEND WORRIER
If you are a “Weekend Worrier” you should be training during the week and you should be training at least 2x per week. Let’s say you don’t surf one weekend due to commitments or it is just flat… it could be 15 days till your next pad
dle out and that is just far too long without surfing.
For those who only surf weekends, or once every 10 days or so, you never have the chance to become stronger or fitter, because there is no enough “stimulus” for your body to change. Our body must be challenged with the right intensity + duration + frequency!
Do you have the impression that the waves are never coming your way and everyone else seems luckier than you? Enough said…
INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED & COMPETITIVE
S&C+Nutrition for the Intermediate, Advanced and Competitive Surfer is about improving power on manoeuvres and the ability to be consistent in completing them and with style. This is a major game changer for a competitive surfer, consistency is a must, specially when you need that “score”.
Being able to land an air at times that matters the most, or finish that 12 o’clock snap under the lip with an air drop and under pressure is the difference between winning or losing!
Nutrition and hydration is one of the most important aspects of any sport and one of the most neglected.
WHAT ABOUT;
👍 Performance Enhancing Warm Ups
👍 Recovery between heats
👍 Cool Downs/Recovery between sessions?
All surfers have something in common and it doesn’t matter your level/ability… No one surf on flat days! Therefore, fitness and strength is LOST when the swell does not want to show up. Longer the flat days, more of your fitness + strength will be lost!
The time is NOW! Let’s 💥UP your game!
From standing up for the first time or getting to that wave first, doing your first turn to qualifying and even becoming a CHAMPION 🏆.
My S&C + Nutrition is not just about surfing for longer or catching more waves, it’s also about being more consistent and improving your movement by increasing your:
STRENGTH ♦ POWER ♦ AGILITY ♦ STAMINA ♦ EFFICIENCY
As well as preventing & rehabbing old injuries. What about losing weight!?
S&C IS PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT TRAINING
S&C covers your ENTIRE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT and what is needed to improve your physical performance.
* * * TRAIN SMARTER NOT HARDER * * *
🚨NOTE: 📢 Strength training is just one piece of the jigsaw because although people might only use the term “strength”, you are not actually just training for strength and a lot of the time you don’t need to use weights at all!
A reminder… Surfing has evolved but not the surfers themselves and with that can come the consequences (ankles, knees, back and shoulders injuries) and
most surfers have not evolved how they train
and that is, if they train at all! Do you?
