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Advanced Snowboard Exercises and Strength Programs for Pro Snowboarders

Snowboarding is a sport that requires a balance of physical strength, technical skill, and mental focus. Naturally, for a pro athlete, all of 3 of these skill sets must be optimized, along with nutrition, flexibility, and rest/recovery. A properly designed strength and conditioning program will provide any pro athlete with a major advantage in physical strength, AMPLITUDE, and STYLE over his/her competitors, while decreasing the risk of injury and increasing the judges’ score cards.

Physical strength is broken down into different qualities of strength: power, power endurance, absolute strength, speed strength, and strength endurance. What kind of strength is required varies depending on the kind event. Be warned, these are advanced programs, even a pro athlete must build up to them, especially if they have not done workouts like this before or haven’t been training hard in a gym for at least 2 years. Working with a partner or trainer is always advised to maintain safety when performing heavy lifts.

Finding an instructor for snowboarding is made fairly simple because there are so many people who naturally love the sport. Prior to your first ride, you will have to take a set of lessons to learn the ins and outs. After some time, an advanced student can ask their instructor for training in more extreme situations. Don’t think that you can move on to this level after a couple days or weeks of snowboarding and don’t try the hardest slopes during this period.

Alpine sports involve a lot of dangers and this is why protective gear is highly recommended by all instructors. Not even “experts” at the field of snowboarding are exempt from needing to wear helmets to protect themselves, because the sport can be quite risky. The parts of your body that need protective equipment covering them from accidents during snowboarding include the head, the wrists, and the tail-bones. Also, the boots are important, so ensure that yours are well fitting and feel good on your feet. Your boots shouldn’t impair any type of movement, but should still fit snugly just below the knee.

Grabs
While grabs are obviously technical and are not going to be practiced in a gym (unless you have a huge trampoline set up), you can still push the boundaries and take your grabs to the next level with a balanced strength training program. Optimal strength can only be developed when the athlete has an optimal range of motion i.e. flexibility. Lack of flexibility is mainly due to WEAKNESS, which the body responds to by developing tightness. So to get flexible, you have to get strong in a larger range of motion. A stretching program will help if you use gentle contraction while stretched to increase your strength in tight ranges. Hold the contraction for 5 seconds, then release deeper into the stretch, and repeat 3 or 4 times. Developing strength in new ranges will allow the athlete more flexibility to TWEAK THEIR GRABS! You know the judges love it, a little extra tweak can make a big difference on their score card.

Program Design
It is important to keep in mind that while there are a lot of cool exercises and workouts that will transfer to your abilities on the slopes, the only way to consistently make progress is to track your workouts and gradually manipulate the training variables (exercise selection, tempo, rest, sets, reps). With the industries explosive growth, athlete with the most talent, most commitment, and best programming are the once that are going to excel both on and off the slopes

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Surfing is not necessarily a summer sport. A real surfer will enjoy surfing throughout the freezing winter months just as much as they’ll enjoy basking in the warm summer sun. So long as the water isn’t too choppy the winter months will often provide better waves. There’s also the added bonus the beaches and water will be a lot quieter.

Surfing in your favourite bikini isn’t safe regardless of the time of year. You may look good but if you come off your board or end up getting dragged along the sea bed, you’ll wish you invested in a good wetsuit. Keeping you warm and safe is the main function of any good wetsuit. Any hardcore surfer knows they spend the majority of their time sat on their board waiting for a good wave. If you’re going to be sat out in the sun you may find you’re more comfortable in a wetsuit with shorter sleeves and legs. For colder waters like those of the UK coasts you’ll need to look at about a 7mm thickness. Try and invest in a good brand name wetsuit if you can afford it. Brands like rip curl and Roxy wetsuits are very reputable and you know you’re paying for quality.

If you are looking to buy a wetsuit there are a few things you need to bear in mind. If you feel like your movement are being restricted the chances are it’s too tight. It’s essential that you can move easily as you’ll need to be able to swim in it. The wetsuit needs to keep you warm so if it’s too lose it will let water in and it won’t work. Always buy from a surf clothing specialist who will be able to advise you. A stockist with a large selection of brand is also less likely to push any one particular make. They’ll also be able to help you chose between billabong wetsuits or rip curl wetsuits.