Overview
Main description
Fit to Surf, a cutting-edge surfing-specific fitness guide, supplies surfers of all levels of experience with everything they need to create a personal fitness program that builds strength and endurance, increases balance and coordination, and minimizes the risk of injury.
Personal trainer Rocky Snyder--himself an avid surfer with two decades of experience riding the waves--provides easy to-follow, step-by-step instructions supplemented with 60photographs of conditioning exercises that can be performed at home, in the gym, or on the water.
Table of contents
ForewordAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Creating Your ProgramChapter 2. Flexibility TrainingChapter 3. Sun SalutationChapter 4. Strength TrainingChapter 5. Medicine Balls and Stability BallsChapter 6. Skill Transfer ExercisesChapter 7. Endurance TrainingChapter 8. Surf Team DrillsChapter 9. Sample Workout ProgramsAppendix 1. Exercises at a GlanceAppendix 2. Workout LogAppendix 3. Muscle ChartAppendix 4. ResourcesIndex
Author comments
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.
Back cover copy
"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
