Performance Kitesurfing in Tarifa, Spain.

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by Tantrum — Leave a comment

Kitesurf Specific Resistance Band Workout

When I first started training people to get fit for kitesurfing, I was all about slow movements and big weights.

It took me a few years to realise that to train for a sport as nuanced as kitesurfing isn’t just a case of going and throwing weights around in a gym or smashing out a few classes of Crossfit.

To efficiently train we must do it at the speed of the sport we are training for, using optimal weight for that sport.

At about the time I realised this I also discovered resistance bands.

Portable, much less likely to cause injury, able to be utilised in any direction (not just against gravity) and providing equal resistance throughout the entire range of motion of the exercise (meaning you get MUCH more bang for your buck).

They also allow us to train with the speed and explosiveness we need for kitesurfing and you don’t need to be stuffed in a gym to use them, they’re also cheap as chips! ?

All this makes resistance bands THE perfect tool for training kitesurfers when they’re OFF the water.

And they’ve quickly become my #1 favourite tool for getting people into shape to kitesurf quickly.

I’ve put together an entire kitesurf specific, resistance band workout for you here in this video so you can get fit for kitesurfing with our resistance band workout and exercises. Designed by kitesurfers for kitesurfers.

Enjoy! Sam. ??

Posted on March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 by Tantrum — Leave a comment

How Understanding Your DNA Can Improve Your Kiting

Genetic testing has opened up whole new worlds to those of us in pursuit of optimal human performance (or just those who want to be better kiters!). For the first time ever we can understand our underlying genetic predispositions and design our nutrition, our exercise, our lifestyle around them and thus radically upgrade our performance nearly over night.

In this video I show you how I plan to use this in my quest to become a kick ass kitesurfer…

One of the first things you learn when working as a Performance Coach is there is no one size fits all solution to instantly upgrade someone’s performance to superhuman levels.

Whether I’m working with clients to massively upgrade their kitesurfing performance, with a CEO to give them more focus, energy and drive, with a professional athlete wanting to be faster, fitter and stronger than the competition or whether it’s just me, looking to become a kick ass kitesurfer…

We are all subject to what in the world of Personal Training is called The Law of Individual Differences.

This law simply states we are all different, and so what works for one person, almost by default, will not work for the next…

In fact the same thing which works as a panacea for one person may have very negative effects in another.

This is true in which ever field you look at, exercise and fitness, nutrition, sleep, supplementation, stress reduction…or any other lifestyle change we use to induce massive increases in performance.

Ok so this is a great little nugget to know but…

How the hell do you actually implement this?

How can you possibly know all the nuances behind your biology?

Well for years in my job it was a case of trial and error.

As Health & Performance coaches we’d typically try something, often aided by a bit of guesswork as to what would probably work for the client based on their background and cross referenced with other clients we’d worked with. From there we’d cobble a protocol together and give it a shot.

If it worked…great, if not we’d go back and tweak.

Scientific huh?!

For my quest to become a kick ass kitesurfer I wanted to be a bit more scientific. Luckily for me, at about the time I was conceiving of rebooting this quest, the means to do exactly this became possible.

Check out the video at the top of the page to learn more…

Click here to check out Self Decode >>

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Posted on March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 by Tantrum — Leave a comment

The Friday Lowdown – March 6th 2020

Those damn bugs…

We are all reading about the Coronavirus in the news, but there is not much chat about what is happening regarding the Chinese economy. Why is that an issue to us? Well 80% of kite products come from China….

In a normal year, the Chinese new year, which was last month, is a big deal.

It literally stops all the factories in China for around a month, this year with the Coronavirus it’s already having a much bigger effect. It’s going to hit normal production and new product development alike.

So those of you waiting for the latest shiny gear may have a little longer to wait than usual.

Here’s a round up of everything you might have missed this week:

How To Learn To Kitesurf 3 x Faster

One of the questions I get asked all the time by people just starting their journey into kitesurfing is, “What’s the fastest way to learn to kitesurf?”

In this first part of a series of videos I start to answer this question giving you some great tips for how to get up and riding in less time with less frustration.

Click here to watch the video.

The Quest To Become A Kick Ass Kitesurfer – #2

Following my quest to become a kick ass kiter…

In this short podcast I define exactly what I mean by “kick ass” and detail how I plan to get there.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Kitesurf Specific Bodyweight Workout

Get fit to kitesurf, no gym or equipment needed.

Click here to watch the video.

Have a great windy weekend!

Sam.

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