Fundamentals Program
Complete package for $50 AUD
The Issue
You have begun to realise that the body isn't quite what it used to be. Things that seemed easy-to-do once upon a time on the board just seem harder these days. On top of this you have a growing list of old injuries that are starting to rack up, making you believe your time on the board could be coming to an end.
The Solution
SS Fundamentals
Designed to restore you to a base level of operation, this program is a collective of the best practices in the strength and conditioning world applied specifically to skateboarding. A periodised 12-16 week program that has been designed to give you back the confidence of getting on the board comfortably.
To rehabilitate injuries, gain mobility and build strength and conditioning all specific to how you will use them on the board.
The How
Mobility Program
Mobility exercises are used to restore range of motion back into our joints and muscles to allow greater freedom of movement on the board. Pulling from practices of yoga and Pilates-style movements and rounded off with strength-based exercises executed with full range of motion.
Strength Workouts
Having mobility is one thing, keeping it is a whole different beast. The strength workouts in this program are designed to give you the ability to resist the forces being placed on the body when you skate so that you don’t tighten up. Get power in your pop and confidence taking falls and bailing out of tricks.
Most importantly it allows you to strengthen your body for better skating and spend more time on the board.
Get strong specific to skating so you can spend less time doing exercises and mobility routines and more time on the board.
Pre Skate warm up
Do you stretch? Foam roll? A couple of leg kicks?
With so many conflicting ideas out there on how to maximise efficiency for your warm up, this program gives you the answer with an easy-to-follow warm up protocol, specific for skaters, separate to your main workout.
Recovery Day
Foam rollers and mobility tools are great, if you know how to use them. Follow along with this bonus, skate-specific Recovery Day aimed at showing skaters how to use these tools effectively to maximise their days off and get ready for their next skate.
The Difference
Principles and Progressions
When you perform a trick on the board you follow a specific sequence that leads to that trick eventuating. If you slide your foot up on the board before you engage the pop phase when you ollie, you will get nowhere with the ollie other than wearing out your shoe.
Skate-specific strength training is no different. Principles need to be adhered to in order to achieve success and maximise results. Phases of training need to build on each other in order to lay the ground work for the next step to happen successfully. Without that, results are random and unspecific. This is the difference between using this program and tying together a bunch of random things pulled off the internet.
This program is not simply a mis-match of exercises thrown together at random but a cohesive and thoughtful application of the best science-backed principles in strength and conditioning, aimed directly at skateboarding and geared at moving you forward in the quickest time.
Maximise Performance
Nutrition
How you fuel the body has a huge effect on how you perform not only in your skate sessions but also how you recover from them. The problem is most skaters don’t know how to structure their nutrition effectively.
Whether you are looking to shed some extra kgs because the board is feeling a little heavy, or you want to simply maximise performance on the board, the nutrition section has got you covered. With separate comprehensive education and easy-to-use guides for both weight loss and performance the nutrition section gives you world-class nutritional information to tip the scales in your favour and maximise performance on the board.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Whilst this program was designed to be used at home, a foam roller and single resistance band will be needed which can all be purchased online for a small investment of around $30AUD.
Not much! This program is designed to begin at a base level of competency and builds over the 16 week period.
The reason it's a 12-16 week program is to account for those who are in the more advanced category. Whilst you should aim to spend 4 weeks at each phase, those who are a little more advanced can spend 2-3 weeks at the earlier stages and then scale to 3-4 weeks at the later, more difficult, phases.
You are given options in both time length and days.
- minimum 20-30 mins twice a week.
- options to do 35-45 min session with instruction on how to add days
Word on the Street
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Skateboard Strength
18 / 612 King St,
Erskineville NSW