Fit To Surf [Paperback]

Rocky Snyder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2001

Fit To Surf is the surfer's guide to strength training and conditioning. This book is filled with information and photographs to help an individual: build more surfing strength, enhance paddling endurance, increase balance and coordination, reduce chance of injury, and train individually or as a member of a surf team.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Tremendous book!" -- 1080 AM KSCO Radio - Gerard Pearlberg

"Very concise...reads very easily" -- Good Morning Monterey Bay - 1080 AM Radio

"diagrams, lists, and pictures show surfers how to beef up their surf power and stamina. This book's guaranteed to make you rip twice as hard" -- Transworld Surf Magazine

Snyder has designed an easy-to-follow guide specifically for surfers, not bodybuilders -- Longboard Magazine Aug/Sept 2001

From the Back Cover

"Guaranteed to make you rip twice as hard."--TransWorld Surf magazine

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

Whether you’re 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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Emerson Pub (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970612001
• ISBN-13: 978-0970612007
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,115,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I live on the central coast of California and provide personalized fitness consultation in my private studio in the Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz. I also provide online fitness programs through my website. I keep my surfboards and wetsuits in my office for quicker access to the waves. I take trips in the winter to the sierras for the snowsports and enjoy canoeing and fishing with my family in the spring.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ugh--disappointing, December 10, 2002

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chris carlisle (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fit To Surf (Paperback)

If you have any knowledge of strength training whatsover, or if you already train (cardiovascular and/or resistance)on a semi-regular basis you don't need this book. The list of excercises is basic, the movement descriptions (kinesiology) aren't adequately detailed, and there were no compelling "surf specific" workouts.

The main point of the book is certainly salient: raise your fitness level (strength, endurance) and you will perform better and feel more comfortable in the water. However, if you really want to raise the general level of your fitness, buy a book on strength training and a book on flexibility and create your own workout to focus on core muscle groups. (Working out in a pool a couple of times a week wouldn't hurt either)

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from a fourty-something seasoned surfer, April 22, 2001

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Big Wave Dave (SANTA CRUZ, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fit To Surf (Paperback)

As a long time surfer with over 30 years of water time I began to realize that my performance in the line up was deteriorating do to a lack of fitness. Although I get out to surf on a regular basis, my strength, stamina , and flexibility were keeping me from ripping the way I did in my earlier days. After following the "Fit to Surf" program I have noticed a marked improvement not only in my surfing, but in my overall energy level as well. I'd recommend all thirty or fourty-something surfers looking to improve their surfing fitness level, or even beginners wanting to get in shape, to pick up a copy.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK HELPED ME SO MUCH!, August 29, 2003

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Barbara Ramsay (Westhampton Beach, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit to Surf : The Surfer's Guide to Strength and Conditioning (Paperback)

My daughter bought me this book before a surf trip to Mexico. I had never surfed before and am not a "spring chicken". After doing the exercises in Rocky's book I was more fit than I've ever been and at age 50 learned to surf. I can't say enough good things about this book.
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