Great video for improving surfing. Most important statement is at the beginning: 80-90% of surfing is Paddling!

Awesome vid- very clear, concise, and thorough. Excited to check out more!

Thanks allot man! Been having some troubles with my shoulder after a waterpolo incident which has set me back for a while now and still feeling the pains.. The anatomie explanations you include are great! keep em coming.

Fantastic. Great exercises and explanations. Great to see the prehab work, those rotator cuffs are vulnerable!

MSW ... very good stuff ... the key line for me was "no core control - your leaking energy". This tutorial was precise, efficient and most importantly, very effective. The last drill paid the biggest dividends for strength and endurance for me. Thanks!

Wisdom way beyond your years Chris! One of the best videos I have seen..I watched it all! Be nice to catch up and trade ideas one day Chris. Of course, you look better on KZfaq than I do. :)

Great tutorial, well explained, I will be adding these to my routine.

gracias por compartir,puse en practica tus consejos por dos meses y los resultados son exelentes,mi deporte es el kayak , tengo una lesión crónica en el hombro izquierdo que me provocaba grandes dolores después de remar y ahora es una molestia cada vez menor.Lo sigo utilizando como parte de mi rutina de actividad física

Brilliant information and exercises. Thank you very much Cris

I love ur one arm stuff as paddling a one arm at a time activity.

Thank you so much! very helpful video as I have never paid attention to keeping shoulders protected through healthy posture

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, this vid was very helpful to me and I hope it is just as helpful to others. Great work!

This Video was really great! Thank you for your wisdom!

Good video! Definitely getting stronger just from paddling but need to spend time deliberately improving strength!

Excellent advice and knowledge of the body and for training . thanks

Thanks for the pointers. I’m starting my second year paddling, and am recovering from a shoulder injury (not from paddling). I have hyper-mobility, so my PT was explaining to me just how important it is to strengthen my shoulders to keep them back when I’m paddling. Thanks!

Brilliant stuff. Thanks.

Great video on strength conditioning, thanks.

Outstanding explanation of Why? and the exercises for How? are super. I found that all of those can be done effectively on my vasa trainer machine at home and it has many more exercises I use to round out this landlocked surfer's fitness routine. Thanks!

Excellent explanation and demonstration - Thank You!

This is one of the best physical fitness videos I have ever seen!

This was really well done.

This workout is also great for kayakers. Stabilise the scap and pull with power.

Awesome vid. Thank you for sharing

so we just had a cyclone come down and i paddled for about 6 hours with a break for lunch and my arms were totally gone im 34 now and decided i need to do some extra training to maintain my paddle strength im going to religiously do your exercises to see if i get some good results cheers mate

Awesome vid thanks bro!

Yep, great vid. As an older bloke I'm working through a bunch of shoulder issues due to not caring about this stuff when I was younger.

Great exercise routine, something I was looking for. Thanks.

The last couple of surf sessions i couldn't get through the breakers, thank you so much for these exercises!

Good stuff...thank you!!!

Most people are about as good as their weakest link. With two shoulder dislocations/surgeries (whitewater slalom) my flexibility really sucks on one side. I will be incorporating some of your tips to help with my paddling SUP. Solid explanations with WHY the exercise will help.Thanks

Very well done!

Thank you! I got this fix idea lately to start kayaking and my shoulders/arms are weak as can be, this is some excellent exercises to add to my workout!

Thank you! 💪💪

Excellent!

thank you !

Nice work Chris, long time no see.....

thanks!

Paddling endurance and wave timing are both my biggest challenges. That and waves that closeout on me lol...

Pull ups are definitely the most effective paddle strength excersise, gives you a lot more explosive paddling when your lats and upper back are significantly stronger

great video

Wow, Chris Mills, you get it brada. Very good knowledge shared. Are you on any diet?

Pulling... Bring ur sternum forward!!! Being mindful of elbows and sternum and ur winning.

ho my god your way of giving training tips making me to cry , i pray god to help you a lot thanks a lot sir.

Re active passive hang. As paddling left right left right would there be benefit from hanging from a trapeze and swing side to side by getting momentum from active tension on one side then the other? Maybe wide mounted rings.

Thanks mate, this is awesome for outrigger paddling 💪

Hi, any tips for some alternatives to hanging. I have trouble with my forearms, golfers elbow. I've pretty much recovered with a lot of rehab but any excercises involving hanging e.g. pull-ups, seem to excascerbate the issue. So any alternatives that could help would be great.

Tankyou sir

Chris Mills is a legend!

Thank you for those execises these will be put on my schedule for the gym, mainly because I only do gym to "work up" my body to prepare for the summer ( I have had a long brake from kayaking ) - also, I would like to know, are there any exercises that can improve posture in general, I have a tendensy to curve to much. I think I need more strengh in my lower back to get a more straigt posture when Iam kayaking !

My main problem is not shoulder s but my lower back aking

It’s called “neutral spine”👍🏼

Who do u schedule gym sessions around surfing ?????? Surf conditions are always changing .. obviously

90 seconds in - its a like from me

R u related to onison?

tssssss hoooo

Pull ups gave me frozen shoulder. So I stopped

I've been hanging recently and my pinkys gone numb... Like all day.

Haven’t surfed in a bit and my arms are already feeling way weaker

I really like all of this, but the row you do with the pink bands needs to be modified. I hope you don't paddle with your arm straight, anymore than you would swim freestyle with your arm straight. You paddle with your arm coming down by your side with your elbow bent. So I'll modify this exercise accordingly. I desperately need all of these exercises since I'm 60, haven't surfed for years, and can only get over to Santa Cruz maybe 4 days per month.

Good routine! Thank you! But how about not constantly referring to surfers as "guys"?

Great exercises. But can we please call muscles by their correct anatomical names? It's called triceps and biceps, not tricep and bicep. And no, one biceps/triceps is not a bicep/tricep.