Yoga routines for surfers

You'll find that incorporating yoga routines into your surfing fitness program will have a number of benefits:  Increased flexibility, improved balance, and better core strength.

Most often, even serious athletes will not follow a suitable flexibility routine... finding it time consuming and feeling that they're not getting enough "bang for their buck".... the "no pain no gain" point of view.

Flexibility sequences  like we demonstrate below,  combine many of the essential dynamic stretching and warmup exercises that we as surfers should be using, into a workout that also has many strength elements....so you'll feel like you've had a workout once you're done.

As you progress with the routines, you'll be able to hold the positions for longer, and go deeper into the stretches.

The High Performance Centre of Surfing Australia teaches the following sequences to it's up and coming young stars.

Use the workouts as part of your daily fitness program, and use an abridged version as part of your dynamic warmup, before you enter the water...you'll find that you will surf better.

Hot young surfer and  Billabong Pro Junior Team member, Felicity Palmateer, demonstrates:

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As you learn the routines, remember to to slow down your movements and your breathing rate,  lengthening the stretching component of each movement

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