Fit to Surf: The Surfer's Guide to Strength and Conditioning / Edition 1

by Rocky Snyder

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071419536
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Creating Your Program

Chapter 2. Flexibility Training

Chapter 3. Sun Salutation

Chapter 4. Strength Training

Chapter 5. Medicine Balls and Stability Balls

Chapter 6. Skill Transfer Exercises

Chapter 7. Endurance Training

Chapter 8. Surf Team Drills

Chapter 9. Sample Workout Programs

Appendix 1. Exercises at a Glance

Appendix 2. Workout Log

Appendix 3. Muscle Chart

Appendix 4. Resources

Index