Want to avoid a 30% decrease in your surf performance?

The One Nutrition Trick That Can Improve Your Surf Performance

If you’re surfing multiple days in a row, one simple change can have a huge impact on your performance.

Why Timing Your Carbs Matters

Researchers found that delaying carbohydrate intake by just 3 hours after exercise led to:

• A 30% decrease in next-day performance.
• Increased effort perception (it felt harder to perform), even with similar muscle glycogen levels.

To recover properly and maintain high-intensity performance, it’s important to get immediate carbohydrate replenishment after your surf.

How to Time Your Carbs for Surfing

I’ve experimented with low-carb diets to cut fat and build muscle, but when there’s a big swell, I always make sure to:

1. Eat a set amount of carbs before my session.
2. Eat a set amount of carbs after my session.

The key is not overdoing it—just eating the right amount. The general recommendation is 1.2g of carbohydrates per kilogram of body weight immediately post-exercise.

Paddle Fitness Still Comes First

While nutrition can help, it won’t make up for a lack of paddle fitness. The best way to improve your endurance in the water is to train your paddling.

A strong paddle base allows you to:

• Sustain long paddling efforts, even in strong currents.
• Stay in position without burning out.
• Have the anaerobic capacity to sprint for waves over and over in a session.

Enter the Basis Paddle Trainer.

I've gone months without surfing and rolled up to pumping swell and surfed 3 hr sessions, multiple times a day, day after day after day, by using the Basis Paddle Trainer.

Train anytime, anywhere, so you can catch more waves and have more fun.

Unlike elastic resistance bands, swimming in the pool, or funky gym workouts these things actually work.

Check it out at www.surfbasis.com

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