Preventing surfing injuries is very important. If you do some basic stretching before you surf it can help prevent accidents and it will also improve your surfing skills. Most professional surfers see stretching as not just preventive exercise for muscle related injuries but most of them see this as getting more agile when in the water thus will helping them perform better.
When you go on surfing it is a big advantage if your flexibility is at best condition. This will help you handle the twisting and tossing in the surf from wipe out. It is actually a must that all surfers have strong swimming skills and with a good upper body strength because when you want to stay upright on the surf board it requires a solid base of strength to you lower body and core maintain your balance. You need to have a good cardiovascular conditioning before surfing since this is important especially if you are constantly moving to get in and out of the surf.
When you are surfing, one of the major muscles that are in used are the muscles of your legs, the muscles on your hips, the core muscles and the muscles on you upper back and shoulder. You need to condition these muscles to avoid any muscle injuries while surfing. One way of conditioning your muscles is weight lifting, cardio vascular training and doing stretching exercise before catching the big wave.
Stretching exercise is one of the most neglected exercise for improving athletic performance, this exercise will help prevent any sport injury and properly rehabilitating strain injury and sprain.
These are some samples on how to do a stretching exercise.
First thing you need to do is to start rolling your head just enough to limber up your neck. In surfing you always have to look where to go so it would be easy to tweak your neck in an instant.
Second exercise is touching your toes, you need to slowly touch your toes and do not force or immediately touch your toes because it might cause injury. Just let your body weight slowly bounce you down and perform the exercise.
The third stretching exercise is to pull your feet to you arse and stretch them by quads. This is actually the most essential part of the maneuver.
Fourth exercise is you need to put your one foot on the sand and another foot crossing over your knee then try to twist from your waist from light to left.
The fifth example of exercise is to do a sitting arch your back and reach for the stars while locking your finger palms facing up. And lastly is to stand up and shake loose strap on the leg.
The stretching exercise is a good starting point in improving you surfing skills. It will give you more benefits if you add a wider range of stretching exercises. Not just to improve performance but also to greatly reduce any injuries and accidents while surfing. Thus, when you decide to go on surfing make sure you have done some basic stretching exercise.
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