Paddle Boarding

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Stand Up Paddling

A royal Hawaiian sport, now becoming a new craze and the World's quickest growing water sport.

Why is this you may ask? It could be any of the following fresh perspectives and benefits that it can bring to your surfing:

• Provides an excellent workout, targeting your core muscle groups and providing an overall feeling of balanced strength.
• Allows you to enjoy the ocean (or lake/river) in less than optimal conditions when there are no waves or the water temperature is extremely cold.
• Stand Up Paddling is an extremely fun and addictive sport that can be enjoyed by any age group with or without any previous experience. Trust us! You'll be hooked!

So why’s it such a great workout?

· 1. Enhancing Balance and Stability: Balancing on an unstable surface, like a board floating on the water, improves your proprioception (your sense of the relative position of your body).  Basically, that means that we play on unstable surfaces to become more stable.

· 2. Developing Core Muscles: Paddle boarding is a great rotational workout!  Your obliques and spinal rotators, which are part of your core, get overlooked in most exercise programs.  So, we like any exercise that conditions them, like paddle boarding!.   It  is good for your core.

· 3. Strengthening Back and Shoulders: Paddling is a pulling pattern.  A lot of times pulling or rowing movements are underutilized, which leaves us with weak and under developed upper back and posterior shoulder muscles.  Paddle boarding can help strengthen and develop these muscles.

· 4. Improving Cardiovascular: Paddle boarding is a great cardio workout, and is an excellent alternative to the boring treadmill!  You can alter the intensity to achieve different results.  For example: you can take a longer slower paddle for fat metabolism or bust out some sprints to get an anaerobic effect. Paddle boarding is great fun and a killer workout. No matter what reason you first try it, you’re going to love it!