Monday, October 22, 2012

A Great Dawn Patrol Dynamic Warm-up

Here is  a great video for those early risers hitting the dawn patrol. It works and it is a fully TRUE dynamic warm up! Here are three simple exercises put together to warm up all of your surfing muscles before surfing.  It allows the body to move in all three planes of movement that is found in surfing. They will target the core, shoulders, and hips. Make sure you do these at home on a hard surface. We do not recommend performing these on unstable surfaces like sand.

Here is the breakdown:
20 reps of the chopper
20 reps of rotation
20 reps of the diagonal chop

The video will demonstrate all the exercises separately. Be sure to execute these exercises slowly at first . Get used to performing these with proper form. Then when you got that down take the tempo of the exercises up a notch and keep building up speed. Speed with proper form is a key component here. You want to get at tempo that mimics the speed you demonstrate in your surfing maneuvers. We do apologize for the poor audio quality, we are currently working to fix this disaster!
If you feel any pain what so ever, STOP and consult a physician or regress the intensity of the exercises. Feel free to contact us at alohafitness73@hotmail.com .