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6 Ways To Help Speed Up Recovery While You Are Injured
SUP racing World Champion, Seychelle, is no stranger to injury so we reached out to her to get her tips and advice on how you can help to speed up recovery while you’re injured to get you back on the water as soon as possible.
Sup Fitness: How Many Calories Does Paddle Boarding Burn?
How many calories do you burn while paddleboarding? Find out below.
Summer Nutrition 101: Everything Your Body Needs To Stay On Top
From June to August, we are more likely to lose hydration and energy because of the hot temperatures. Therefore, you need to ensure that you’re preparing for each paddle-board session by eating right.
Nutritional Tips For Finding Balance On And Off Your Sup
In order to achieve good balance on your board, it is important that you have a good balance of nutrition when you’re off the board. So, check out these three tips that can supplement your strength training and improve your game.
Cross Training Workouts With Connor Baxter
Want to boost your paddling performance without even touching the water? This land-based workout routine, demonstrated by World Champion paddler Connor Baxter, is designed to improve your strength, endurance, and power.
Choosing Healthy, Delicious Snacks For Stand-up Paddleboarding
You should avoid snacks that are particularly carb-heavy or have a high fat content, like potato chips. It is also important to avoid anything with a high sugar content, like a candy bar, as you definitely don’t want that sugar crash a couple of hours later when you’re out on the water.
Sup Tips: Nutrition & Recovery
There's a strong connection between eating and training in order to your minimize recovery rate between sessions and improve overall performance. Here we asked Top Supconnector, Alex Mauer, to break down his nutrition program and give us some tips on how to stay hydrated, nourished and keep progressing.
Beginner Kettlebell Exercises To Improve Your Paddling
Working out with kettlebells can improve your balance, stability, endurance and strength. To start, the two-arm kettlebell swing is one of the first movements you should master.
5 Tips To Improve Paddle Stroke
In stand up paddle boarding, having a good paddle stroke is crucial to seeing results and improving skill level. Many of stand up paddling's top athletes stress that the paddle stroke is one of the most important, if not the most important, tool to master when paddling.
5 Tips For First Time Sup Racers
When preparing for your very first SUP race it's important to be prepared and know what to expect from your first experience.
5 Tips To Help You Have A Successful Sup Race
With the SUP racing season right around the corner we thought it best to supply you with some tips that can help you have a successful race come race day.
Clothing And Its Sup Performance Impact
For some, SUP is a lighthearted frolic in the water, whereas for others, it’s a serious fitness regime; as the LA Times have noted, simply maintaining good posture during SUP is a serious workout.
How To Set Up Your SUP Race Board
Starboard race board setup for race day: Connor Baxter’s ultimate guide for performance.
Buoy Turn Tutorial with Connor Baxter
Join Connor Baxter, one of the best standup paddlers in the world, as he shares his expert tips for mastering buoy turns on a SUP!
How Can Sound Sleep Prevent Injury And Boost Your Sup Performance?
Stand Up Paddle (SUP) is considered such a safe sport that it is commonly recommended for children adults alike. However, if you want to reduce your risk of injury while you are out at sea, or if you take part in competitive events, ensure that sleep is an important priority in your daily life.
10 Intermediate Tips For Organizing Great Sup Races
Here are a few extra steps that can help take your event to a whole new level. It’s important to note, however, that these extra steps can have a major impact on the overall success of your event, ranging from funding and attendance to promotion and beyond.
9 Ways To Have Fun On Group Sups
Stand up paddle boarding is on the upward trend in participation and with that comes more opportunities for even more fun. In the past couple of years we’ve seen the rise in popularity for group SUPs, as in a paddle board that can hold a group of paddlers at one time.
5 Tips To Improve Your Sup Race Performance
Here are the top 5 tips on how you can improve your performance during a SUP race.
Nutrition & Training: How Seychelle Fuels Her Body
Seychelle's nutrition regimen is likely a huge part of why she's been so successful as an athlete and keeping herself in top shape. To get a better idea of her routine and how she fuels her body we checked in with Seychelle and asked her a few questions.
10 Basic Tips For Organizing Sup Races
Here we present the overall framework. But even more importantly is to have highly knowledgeable and competent individuals with complementary skill sets who can all contribute to a highly successful event.
10 Nutrition Tips For Peak Sup Performance
Nothing puts more of a damper on your downwinder than quick crash of energy and stamina. And even the most proficient of paddlers, and strategic of strokes will lose steam if the fuel coming in is lacking the proper nutrients.
How To Train For When Sup Racing Returns
As our world starts to come back together safely, the next question is when is SUP Racing coming back? For avid paddlers the training never stopped. But if you have been off the water and spent more time on the couch during the pandemic, you might need a training regimen that will get you back into paddle racing shape.
Top 10 Advanced Tips For Organizing Elite Sup Races
All these events had something in common: a wealthy benefactor that got tired of writing checks to pay for the event. So, make sure your budget pencils out. With all of that said, here are ingredients that go into the recipe of an elite stand up paddle event.
How To Fuel Your Paddling Addiction When Injured
Being injured is a drag. It is something that we all go through at one time or another, professional athletes and weekend warriors alike.
5 Essentials All Sup Racers Need Daily
Shelby Rose Taylor, the rising SUP race and surf star from Kentucky, is currently in Cocoa Beach for the summer, where she'll be training and competing, getting ready for a busy travel season through the fall.