Time to start sufing so what exersises I should you do?

Its about that time in the year when surfing get really really fun. Why you ask well cause the air and the water gets warmer and the days get longer. I am going to try and go as much as I can before i leave for my trip. Yep my trip usually when a surfer says that it usually means he is going to some exotic place to surf some gnarly waves...Well not me i am heading back to Cleveland to probably not even see a beach and for sure not getting in the water. Its ok it will be fun and just get me more excited to come back and shred when i get back.

I am going to concentrate my blog posts on fitness and surfing related. So today i am going to answer a question that come to my mind and i bet a lot of other surfers mind.

What is the best exercise for surfing???
There are more then one exercise to help with this but the main thing surfers do is paddle. So what you want to do is get your arm strength up. Two simple exercise for that are push ups and pull ups. Now why do you think i choose those to? Well your arm strength is very important for surfing and the biggest thing you need to do is paddle yourself on a surf board, so pull ups really help with getting your arms ready to paddle your own body weight for a long period of time. Push ups is just a over all great exercise, but for surfing it is especially important cause when you are about to catch a wave what you need to do is PUSH your self up. This sounds so much easier than it is. Remember when you start surfing it looks a lot easier then it is so if you can train your muscles to push your self up, then when you are out on the ocean the last thing you need to worry about is pushing up to your feet. Your arms will be ready for that exercise and the last thing you will need to concentrate on is catching the wave and making sure your feet are set.

There are many more exercises you can do this is just a couple you can do at home at work or anywhere. I will touch on this subject again.