'Guaranteed to make you rip twice as hard' - "TransWorld Surf" magazine. This book helps you to stay out longer, catch more waves, and perform more demanding maneuvers. Whether you're a veteran surfer or just discovering the thrills of catching a big wave, this surfing-specific fitness guide helps you become a better, stronger, more agile surfer. "Fit to Surf" gives you everything you need to create a personal fitness program that builds strength and increases endurance, fine-tunes balance and coordination, and minimizes your risk of injury. Renowned personal trainer and avid surfer Rocky Snyder presents easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for scores of illustrated exercises that you can perform at home, in the gym, or on the water.Complete with a muscle chart and a workout log you can use to organize your personal training program, "Fit to Surf" helps you improve your wave count, maintain a higher energy level, and master maneuvers that you thought were beyond your skills. It includes: flexibility training; sun salutation warmup yoga poses; strength training; medicine ball and stability ball training; skill transfer exercises; endurance training; surf team drills; and, detailed sample workout programs. 'An easy-to-follow guide' - "Longboard Magazine". 'A must-have for your surf library' - "Girls' Surf Life" magazine.
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"Guaranteed to make you rip twice as hard."--TransWorld Surf magazine
Stay out longer, catch more waves, and perform more demanding maneuvers
Whether you’re a veteran surfer or just discovering the thrills of catching a big wave, this surfing-specific fitness guide helps you become a better, stronger, more agile surfer. Fit to Surf gives you everything you need to create a personal fitness program that builds strength and increases endurance, fine-tunes balance and coordination, and minimizes your risk of injury.
Renowned personal trainer and avid surfer Rocky Snyder presents easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for scores of illustrated exercises that you can perform at home, in the gym, or on the water. Complete with a muscle chart and a workout log you can use to organize your personal training program, Fit to Surf helps you improve your wave count, maintain a higher energy level, and master maneuvers that you thought were beyond your skills. It includes:
- Flexibility training
- Sun salutation warmup yoga poses
- Strength training
- Medicine ball and stability ball training
- Skill transfer exercises
- Endurance training
- Surf team drills
- Detailed sample workout programs
"An easy-to-follow guide."--Longboard Magazine
"A must-have for your surf library."--Girls' Surf Life magazine
About the Author
Rocky Snyder is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a certified personal trainer. He has been a professional fitness trainer for over ten years and an avid surfer and paddler for over twenty years. He is also the author of Fit to Paddle: The Paddler's Guide to Strength and Conditioning.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
By "cjw25"
Format:Paperback
This book is great and has helped my surfing and general fitness level alot. The book is split into three sections: Stretching, Strength Building & Endurance Training. Additionally, the book provides example work-out programmes and schedules using the techniques in the book.
The exercise techniques are very well written, easy to follow and the pictures demonstrate correct position. The techniques are divided between those that can be done at home and in the gym. But the book is written such that a full workout can be done at home without additional equipment.
The only slightly weak area is the endurance training because it isn't as detailed as the stretching and strength building sections. However, this isn't really a problem because, as the book says, the best way to build endurance is to get out and paddle.
So in conclusion, great book, I feel like a steam-boat paddling around and it's definately helped my technique because I feel much more supple. On a side note, it's also good as a general fitness book and my wife (who doesn't surf) uses it too.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Miriam
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As a previous reviewer has commented, this is basic level stuff. If you're looking for a book with insightful info, programmes to follow and something that can offer more than a high-school gym class in terms of stretches and exercises, this is NOT the book for you. If however, you've never really done much sport before then this is probably a good intro. I don't think it's particularly suited to Surfing per se, and i'd actually recommend a swimming book or something instead. Buy at your own risk!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book has improved my surfing and im definetly feeling the benefit in the gym.
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You'll get what is on the label. So fight your laziness
This book is exactly what says on the label. Author is well educated trainer and now even surfer. I have to strongly agree with suggestions in the book and it was really helpful to... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2010 by Vlastimil Buzek
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Well worth the money
The author has had a look at which muscles are used for surfing and developed an exercise program around them. Read more
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Basic Stuff
Very basic. If you already have experience of basic training principles then this book isnt for you.
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