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Re: Surf fitness

Post by el rancho » Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:43 pm

Unless you play footy or you're a removalist, packing on a ton of muscle in the gym is 100% useless for real life.

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by ctd » Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:12 am

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Beanpole » Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:21 pm

I thought being a surfie had more brownie points.
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by ctd » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:42 pm

How do you make a girl in a nightclub know you are a surfer? Wear your 'Hayden Rules' T-shirt?

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by diggerdickson » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:10 pm

Im just doing stretching exercises, swimming and core exercises. Nothing else at this moment due to back exercises though in a fortnight or so i plan to pick up the swimming. I plan to strengthen my core for the April swells in the north west wa
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Slobadan Madicubich » Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:08 pm

el rancho wrote:Unless you play footy or you're a removalist, packing on a ton of muscle in the gym is 100% useless for real life.
Pretty useless for a removalist too unless they do pianos/pooltables/spas/bespoked furniture made from fucken railway sleepers

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Beanpole » Sun Jan 17, 2016 10:41 pm

ctd wrote:How do you make a girl in a nightclub know you are a surfer? Wear your 'Hayden Rules' T-shirt?
I remember turning up at the Patch one time when I had been living in Surry Hills and the locals had developed this dancing style that involved curling their arm over their head and pretending to shoot the tube. Looked incredibly lame.
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Natho » Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:34 am

If anyone is looking for a 12 foot prone paddle board to train on I may be able to help out. It would be a Jamie Mitchell full carbon 12 foot board for under a grand. About $2500 new. Just PM me. Its on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Its in very good condition. They are hard to come buy esp at that price.

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Kunji » Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:41 pm

Natho wrote:If anyone is looking for a 12 foot prone paddle board to train on I may be able to help out. It would be a Jamie Mitchell full carbon 12 foot board for under a grand. About $2500 new. Just PM me. Its on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Its in very good condition. They are hard to come buy esp at that price.
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Natho » Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:34 am

Not really. looks like the JM board is sold.

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Cranked » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:59 pm

Flexibility: stretching doesn't work how you think it does
http://m.livescience.com/48744-how-does ... -work.html
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Cranked » Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:08 am

So I've been doing it all wrong and probably fcuked my achilles tendon with my stretching. Here's a bit more detail
http://breakingmuscle.com/mobility-reco ... nk-it-does
It was my yoga teacher here in Chiang Mai who took all this stuff as read that alerted me to this latest science on stretching
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by el rancho » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:51 am

I read a book about the spine and the woman who wrote it had the premise of observing a cat's stretching behaviour. Every single time a cat gets up from a prolonged sedentary position it goes through a series of motions

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so imagine that sort of simple exercise repeated maybe 50 times a day or more by a cat. Obviously they do it for a reason. Her premise is that we should adopt a similar exercise at least a couple times a day to elongate the spine and ensure every single vertebra has some movement.

so yeah, go cats.

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Beanpole » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:57 am

Really rooted my Achilles tendon area when I started using the pilates machine. Didn't get the foot position right. Walked into the surf for a swim and then collapsed as I dove under a wave.
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by crabmeat thompson » Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:49 pm

Cats ftw
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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Almighty God » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:02 pm

Cranked wrote:So I've been doing it all wrong and probably fcuked my achilles tendon with my stretching. Here's a bit more detail
http://breakingmuscle.com/mobility-reco ... nk-it-does
It was my yoga teacher here in Chiang Mai who took all this stuff as read that alerted me to this latest science on stretching
Often wondered about the benefits of stretching,found that pretty interesting, and did kind of find myself agreeing with it, based on my experience.

What do you think of massage versus stretching...for some reason I find massage way more beneficial, but is that just in my head, or would science back that up?

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by ctd » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:01 pm

Foam rolling is a big thing in fitness at the moment (and for the past few years) for warm up and cool down, rather than static stretching. Which is much like massage. It seems to have some scientific backing re improving mobility eg http://breakingmuscle.com/mobility-reco ... eally-work

The whole static stretch/elongation of muscle is wrong thing has been around for a while - look up Pavel Tsatsouline 'relax into stretch'

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Re: Surf fitness

Post by Beanpole » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:03 pm

I've been doing a bit of rolling......seems to work. Still can't believe how effective using the stretchy rubber and bending my neck from side to side is. My neck has been bugging me for years and I could hardly turn my head...until I tried doing this stuff.
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