SURF SERIES - This 7 Step Pilates Program Will Improve The Way You Surf
This 7 Step Pilates Program is a series of exercises designed to improve your surfing & prevent injury. The following workouts can be accessed 24/7 from any device once downloaded, and provide a comprehensive full body workout that will condition your body, and step up your surfing!
- Warm up
- Spine/Thoracic Strengthening
- Core & HIIT
- Balance
- Pilates/Yoga Blend workout
- Hip Mobility & Flexibility
- Cool Down/Release
SURF LIFE
Surfing isn't just the buzz that surfers get when gliding across the open face of a wave (I wish), and anyone learning can testify to that! There's much, much more to surfing than the individual components of riding the actual wave, e.g. bottom turns, top turns, cutbacks, re-entries, tubes. There’s paddling out, duck diving, paddling for waves, taking off, taking the drop, getting caught inside, getting dumped, getting held down and struggling against rips and currents. To handle this wide array of highlights and challenges a surfer needs a combination of strength, cardio fitness, agility and flexibility.
HOW PILATES HELPS
Unlike some forms of exercise, Pilates does not over-develop some parts of the body and neglect others. While Pilates training focuses on core strength, it trains the body as an integrated whole. Pilates workouts promote strength and balanced muscle development as well as flexibility and increased the range of motion for the joints. It is also the reason that Pilates is so popular in rehab scenarios, as well as with athletes who find that Pilates is a great foundation for any kind of movement they do.
Some of the benefits you will see:
- Increased Flexibility
- Core Strength
- Improved Posture
- Weight Loss/Lean Muscle
- Increased Energy
- Increased Mind/Body Awareness
Pilates will help you develop greater core strength, power and speed through your surfing turns whilst developing improved balance and control in your surfing. In improving your abdominal strength you will be supporting your lower back, pelvis and hip joints - and will reduce your risk of injury in the surf.
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Surf Series - Warm up
This workout is designed specifically for surfers - it focuses on opening the hips and shoulders, and getting the core and stabilising muscles cranking before a surf!
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Surf Series - Cool Down/Release
This workout designed specifically for surfers is focused on releasing the hips, shoulders, back, neck, lats and traps. All the areas that are tight and shortened after a surf, getting you stretched out and ready for another surf!
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Pilates/Yoga Blend workout
This 30min full body workout is the perfect blend of Pilates and Yoga - helping you to feel released, relaxed and zen, while still feeling a great burn!
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Surf Series - Hip Mobility & Flexibility
This workout is designed specifically for surfers - it focuses on strengthening the hip flexors, and increasing mobility and flexibility in the hip joint.
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Surf Series - Spine/Thoracic Strengthening
This workout designed specially for surfers is focused on strengthening and releasing the thoracic spine. This is the only spinal region attached to the rib cage, running from your lower neck to your abdomen, and highly engaged in surfing!
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Surf Series - Core & HIIT
Improving core stability ensures the correct alignment of the spine, which prevents and decreases the risk for injury when surfing, not to mention Absssss!
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Surf Series - Balance
This is created to develop balance and stabilising strength that will result in improved posture and better endurance during surfing movements. It will also help create a new sense of body awareness, position and movement confidence!
