Hey surfers! Here’s a dynamic warm-up just for you designed by Elevate Co-founder Dr. Meredith Soelberg PT, DPT, MBA.
Research is clear that a dynamic warm-up (vs. static stretching) is best to prepare for sport ️ and to prevent injuries. A sport-specific warm-up is specially designed to move the body through the necessary range of motion and activate the neuromuscular system in ways that simulate the sport.
Surfing is a high demand sport with significant injury risk. Up to ⅓ of surfers sustain an injury each year requiring medical attention, missed work, or time off from surfing, and 91% of surfers have sustained an injury surfing in their lifetime.
We see lots of injured surfers at Elevate. Most often we hear that they don’t warm-up at all,🤭 and don’t have an exercise regimen to get their bodies strong for the great demands of surfing.
A surf-specific dynamic warm-up will go a long way to help mitigate the risks and prevent injury (especially when combined with our surf-specific strength exercises coming next week).
We know the waves are like a Siron song calling you the minute you feel the sand in your toes, but put earplugs in for just 5 minutes and prepare your body for the awesome intensity of surfing!
- What a surf-specific dynamic warm-up can do for YOU:
- Increase core temperature
- Increase blood flow to muscles
- Increase stimulation to mechanoreceptors in joints
- Increase stimulation to the central nervous system
- Increase musculoskeletal control
- Increase confidence for performance
- Increase movement through the range of motion demands for the upcoming activities
- ️Improve exercise / sport performance
- Reduce risk for injury
If you don’t have 5 minutes to spare, here’s the 60sec express version!