How do surfmaxxers always end up so toned and cut? The sport doesn't seem like there's much upper body involvement.
How do they do it?
How do surfmaxxers always end up so toned and cut? The sport doesn't seem like there's much upper body involvement.
It’s good cardio, requires strong core and swimming ability. That will tone you. Add in confirmation bias that the better looking ones show up in pics more.
I remember seeing a video where really good female surfers were complaining because the hot ones got all the sponsorships, talent didn’t really matter much.
Being slim also helps a lot with balance and maneuvering.
West Oz boomer anon here, been surfing my whole life. In my mid 20s I bulked up a surprising amount around my shoulders, chest just from surfing. Granted I probably surfed 20 hours a week for a quite a long period of time. The aesthetic that resulted was mainly from hours a day of probably about zone 2 constant heart rate from paddling around trying to position yourself in water that is constantly moving, interrupted my short periods of intense heart rate when paddling for a wave or desperately paddling out to avoid a freak set wave that was coming in to wipe everyone out. The few times a surf sesh where you got caught in the break zone getting held under water for long chunks of time when you're desperately trying to paddle back out into calm waters would make you feel like you've just sprinted a mile sometimes. All of this is cardio but it's also just very constant low impact resistance training for the upper body too.
Paddling around for a few hours a day feels like lifting very light weights repetitively for hours or doing a huge stint in a rower.
You couple that with not eating like shit, young hormones, and to some degree good genetics, and yeah it's pretty hard not to have an aesthetic body.
Then go look at the longboarders. Bunch of fat fricks or skinny anaemic vegan homosexuals. Because it requires little paddling and is done in calm surf.
I'm mid 30s now and have to put in so much extra effort to stay relatively aesthetic compared to how easy it was just surfing in my 20s.
Im 6’3” and dont have a choice but to long board. But I still enjoy it and all the shortboard flippydoo shit just seems so tryhard. I respect the guys who are good at it but they are all skinny manlets, without fail.
Riding a wave as long as possible is cool. I want to learn how to hang ten too
Nice bait
MANLET
I'm sorry you have such poor athleticism that you need a giant canoe to not fall over.
I don't hate longboarders, I just think they're homos. Which is objectively true.
Also there's very little fun in catching small waves on a low swell day. Just go spearfishing or something if you want to get in the water when it's flat.
You are such a gay, lmao, kys
Go back to your boogie board, homo.
longboarding is for shitty surf. you probably love to hang out in the carpark and suck off the old men on 11 footers and college kids on wavestorms.
The shortboards cant even support my weight you twink dumbass and im not even fat
I dunno anon, maybe doing sports for hours daily does things to you?
I've been skating for almost 2 decades (I'm well into my 30s now) and I'm still not fat and my knees are just fine.
>longboarders
Lmao at first I thought you're taking about longboards meaning the cruise type skateboards
>Bunch of fat fricks or skinny anaemic vegan homosexuals
would still be true hahahahah
I don't get the longboard hate. Would you rather stay at the beach complaining that the waves are too small than having some fun?
The sport is filled to the brim with homosexual elitism.
Surfers I've seen irl are just lean. Not really toned or cut.
>like… they STAND on their boards, how can it possibly train the upper body???
average ISTzen IQ here
you have to keep pushing up off the board and run on sand? also it involves swimming and being poor
i have a buff surfer body and ive never surfed in my life, also i am Aussie
Must be genetical
>ive never surfed in my life,
>also i am Aussie
h-h-how...
>country has frickall but world class surf
>somehow goes his whole life without surfing
>surfmaxxers
Do you mean "surfers", you autist?
No, I don't mean something I didn't say. I mean what I said. I'm not talking about some boomer who will go catch a couple of waves and tell some stories about the barrels he caught in the 80s before he gets back to the open house at his new rental property. I'm not talking about surfers. I'm talking about SURFMAXXERS. The guys who absolutely max out on surfing, doing it like a part time job every week, traveling far from home because his weather app shows a storm coming in. SURFMAXXERS are the people who have the physique I'm asking about, not surfers.
Physical activity and eating less food
Believe it or not your autistic gymcel routine and bulk cut cycle is not healthy and makes you look worse
socal chad checking in. most of it is from paddling, and having a strong core, swimming etc. in my experience for example, when there is a huge set coming, and you have no choice to keep paddling and wave is about to break on your head, literally fight or flight kicks in you will literally have to keep paddling no matter how tired you are. and around here, sometimes the waves (not fixed environment like most other sports) will only get good every once in a while, so people will surf for multiple hours nonstop without break, like a super long workout. and yes could be genetic/chance like most anons mentioned here
As someone who wants to get into surfing but maximise the athletic gains from it, what size board should I go for in feet? I am 6'2 and never surfed before.
Drugs. They all do drugs.
1. Regular sunlight saturation
>optimal vitamin D
>sunlight is a vasodilator which promotes all health benefits
2. Resistance swimming (like that of fighting ocean waves) is probably the most intense cardio you can get. If you don't believe it try doing the five mile morning swim that's required to be a lifeguard on a beach.
3. Extreme dehydration
>ocean water due to its salinity rapidly leeches water from your body
>physical activity loses water
>heat and sweat causes water loss
Beach life is about as easy as it is to look shredded, if you workout even a little, you can be a God amongst men.
The hardest part about surfing is you have to swim using no legs up until after the waves' breaking point, you also have to go completely under the waves in the process to get there.
It's a pretty demanding sport if you ask me
you could get the same body by swimming and running