Big wave surfers are the most well trained athletes in the world. Riding water giants is, above all, an extreme physical challenge. How do they prepare their bodies for the powerful forces of Mother Nature? It’s all in the brain, but you can’t be a big wave surfer without strengthening your body for the most difficult mind games. To paddle or not to paddle? Eddie would go, but he was a well-trained waterman. There are many specific physical exercises for big wave surfers. A workout plan for extreme riders involves almost all the structure of the human body. From neck to ankle, from knee to the heart. Lungs are the survival kit of the big wave surfers.

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The physical training life of the big wave surfer

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