What’s Your Training Routine?

I train 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Seriously!

 

But sometimes my training looks like dancing to Latin hip hop at 2 AM. When my body and mind are filled with happiness it’s like I have fireworks inside with a burning fuse. The best thing I can do to become a better surfer in that moment is to forgo sleep and dance into the night. Sometimes I’m upset, like really in a funck. I’m up late feeling depressed. The best thing I can do to improve my life in that moment is to put on a dress and go dancing.

Although, this kind of “training” is very infrequent for me, you get my point. “Training” doesn’t always mean logging hours in the water or in the gym.

I have found the most critical element in training is strengthening the link between my body and my mind.

My body has a voice. Recovery for me has been all about learning to recognize that voice. Some of the things I do regularly to listen up are:

  • Eating when I’m hungry and not putting off meals for the sake of losing weight.
  • Not over eating. This has been hard! I still have a hard time hearing my body say when it is full. But I definitely hear it loud and clear when I try to do something physical after overeating. Just this morning I wanted to go back for a second bowl of granola, I didn’t feel full. But I reminded myself of how awful I felt yesterday when I tried to surf after too much oatmeal. It’s a process.
  • Ending my sessions early. Often the wind and conditions are still good when I’m getting out of the water. But I can feel myself losing steam in my paddling and duck diving. Not only is this dangerous because I’m likely to make a mistake, but it also means I’m weakening my immune system by over taxing my body and likely to get sick.
  • Sleep. I aim for nine to ten hours 5-6 nights per week. I put a lot of stress on my body. It needs more time than your average office worker needs to repair. I don’t always need that many hours of sleep but when I do it is critical that I give my body the time it needs.
  • Rest days. This might be the hardest part of my training. It is so hard to stay out of the water when the surf is good. But I’ve learned that surfing when I’m not feeling up for it really isn’t productive.
  • Massage. I can’t afford to get massages all the time but I actually prefer to do self massage with tennis ball. Learning to hear the voice of my body means I can tell exactly what muscles need help. I am able to direct my efforts better than a massage therapist could because I know better than anyone what my body needs. I’ve healed myself of back pain with two hours of gnarly self massage and stretching that would have taken weeks of rest, ice and expensive chiropractic visits otherwise.
  • Having other hobbies. I love taking photos of surfing, writing, talking to my friends on the phone and learning spanish. All of this means time away from the waves and that is a good thing. Burnout is real. I don’t want that to happen.
  • Improving my connection to The Greater. I spend a lot of time reading spiritual texts, listening to my favorite spiritual teachers’ podcasts and audiobooks and in meditation. I believe there is a flow to the universe. Whatever I can do to tap into that will also allow me to flow with the waves too.

But I know you wanted to know what my workouts look like so I’ll tell you that too, with one disclaimer:

EVERY BODY IS DIFFERENT. And my body has changed over the years, that means my training has been forced to change too. Please don’t use what I do as a rubric. Consider it, then do what works best for YOU!

So here is what a typical day of  more traditional “training” looks like for me:

  • Coffee
  • Warm up: about 10 minutes of body weight exercises such as crunches and squats. I get pretty sweaty by the time it is done, I’m working hard.
  • Light breakfast
  • Surfing: at least one session depending on wind, if possible two sessions. Two-Three hours total. Occasionally more, but If I surf 4+ hours in a day then I don’t do anything more than stretch a bit for the rest of the day.
  • Big Breakfast/Lunch.
  • Seated or reclining time: napping, working on my computer, writing, studying, reading etc.
  • Snack
  • Second training session. This could be a second surf session but more typically I ask my body what it has the energy for and choose between:
    • Running: 35-60 minutes slow, or 25 minutes of sprints,
    • Body weight training: intense vinyasa yoga for 15 minutes then 15-20 minutes crossfit type training,
    • Gym if available: I like to lift heavy weights 1-2 times per week when I have gym access,
    • Yoga: sometimes nothing more than 20 minutes of gentle yoga if I’m feeling wiped out, sometimes 1.5 hours of multiple styles.
    • Apnea: training myself to hold my breath. I like to do freedive tables.
  • Big dinner
  • In bed by 10:00-10:30 pm

It normally amounts to about 3-4 hours of healthy movement, plus another 30 minutes to an hour of very gentle movement (stretching, self massage and apnea). I have learn over the years that this is my body’s limit. Any more than this results in injury or illness.

I take a rest day at least once a week but I feel that my body really does best with either two rest days in a row per week or one rest day every three days.

This is actually really hard for me to do and I’m still learning. When the surf is good, its super hard to not go surfing!

There are professional athletes who can do more, there are plenty of people who can do less. This is what works for me.

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