How many days per week should surfers strength train?

How many days per week should surfers strength train?

 

As a minimum you should do at least 2 total body functional workouts per week.

 

This will provide a lot of the health and fitness benefits that resistance training is scientifically proven to do.

 

Aside from the obvious benefits like improving your functional strength and surfing performance, doing regular weight training will also help with...

• Improvements in fat burning
• Enhancing bone density
• Better cardiovascular health
• Reduced risk of diabetes and some cancers
• Decreased stress levels
• Improvements in sleep
• More productive at work

 

However, in an ideal world, you would try and do 3 total body workouts per week for several reasons...

 

1. You can build muscle for up to 48 hours after a workout. University studies have shown that after a strength training workout, muscle protein synthesisis increased for up to 2 days after your workout, which means you can build muscle for this time period (as long as you are eating enough to fuel muscle growth).

 

2. Your metabolism can stay elevated for a similar amount of time after a full body workout, meaning you can be burning fat for almost 2 days after your workout. So if you want to get lean and athletic, strength training is the way to go.

 

 

Taking both of these factors into account, if you do total body workouts every 2 days (or 3 times per week) you are increasing the opportunity for both muscle growth and fat burning.

 

 

So in summary, aim for 2-3 total body functional training workouts per week to improve both your surfing and your health!