YEh I can totally relate to this, especially through the summer flat spells

How old are you???

I have been surfing for 20 years or so and am approaching 30 fast later on this year. If I hav'nt surfed for a few weeks(rare) I can usually get my paddle power and fitness back over a coupla days If im in the water for at least 5 hours a day.
Usually takes a pretty good swell though for me to be that motivated though.

As long as ur eating well, stretching regulally and dont smoke you should be able to keep up.
I recently started going to "spinn class" on the bikes at the gym with my chick.
A great work out that really hammers ur whole body believe it or not. Good perv too.Smash a few sets of sit ups, push ups and a jog or a swim every few days and ur styling. I noticed a real differernce.

Hope this helps get ya buff

Good luck

I'd say if you went swimming 2 times a week, don't smoke, dont drink heaps and do some stretching, you should do fine!

personally i've had to come back from injury quite a few times (once i did near three months in hospital and when i got out i barely had the strength to walk to the letter box), and i've found that push bike riding and swimming laps work the best for surf orientated fitness.

you really need to concentrate on aerobic exercise as apposed to anaerobic where you might bulk up in a gym.

and don't smoke, eat sugar or white bread and go real easy on the alcohol (like nil if you can)

spot1 said...

or learn to kite surf

i agree its a very good way to maintain your weight

Those spin bikes look good. I think swimming laps is proberbally the best all round for fitness and fixing ailments. I had a bad back there for a while and the chiro and physios had nothing on swimming laps.

beastsurf said...

Those spin bikes look good. I think swimming laps is proberbally the best all round for fitness and fixing ailments. I had a bad back there for a while and the chiro and physios had nothing on swimming laps.

Yeh totally , to hell with handing over big $$$ to Chairo's n Physio's. I had lower back problems for a while there. I must have gone 4 or 5 times over a fortnight I reckon.

It was'nt untill I started to swing off the over head crane at work and use my body weight to stretch my spine out before I noticed any difference. All I had to do was "hang" for a while and get the weight off it.
Funny how sometimes the simplist conclusions work the best

Hey there,
Ive also been looking into best exercises to maintain fitness for surfing and ended up buying a fitness routine for surfers from www.surfstronger.com
I got the surf stronger 1 as a digital download and had a look today,
looks like its got some exercises targeted at paddling muscles but its more with light weights and a fitness ball.
I mainly wanted it for good leg exercises as I'm sometimes to lazy to go for a run,
plus my work involves me sitting on me @ss for long hours on a pc so i lack leg strength a lot compared to people working on their feet all day.
I was actually surfing yesterday and i felt really unfit just doing a few weaves rail to rail with 3 turns on 1 wave and me legs were burning, nothing worse than feelin unfit
anyway,
time 4 changes
Cheers

I just paddle in the pool with the leg rope attatched to the sides.