Stay out longer, catch more waves, and perform more demanding maneuvers

Whether youre 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

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.

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