Surf Workout Part 2 – Functional Strength Training

The main part of your surf workout should consist of functional strength exercises that build total body strength in all 3 planes of movement. Isolated body building or machine exercises should not be the focus, instead you will benefit from training using multiple muscle groups training major movement patterns such as pushing, pulling, squatting, lunging, lifting and rotating.

You don’t need any fancy equipment to get started with your surf workouts, I recommend beginning with a swiss ball and a set of adjustable dumbbells. You can do lots of different exercises that will help improve your core stability/strength, balance and upper and lower body strength and endurance.

Normally I like to structure my surf workouts into supersets where you complete between 2 and 4 exercises in succession with minimal rest before resting and repeating 2-3 times. This allows you to get through more exercises than just doing one exercise, resting, then repeating, etc. In my opinion it is also a lot more fun to train like this.
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