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Your Surfing Diet – Pro Tips for Healthy Habits

August 30, 2016 By J. Taylor

Surfing Diet

It might be a cliché, but you are what you eat. Or perhaps a better way of putting it is that you become what you eat, so getting a surfing diet nailed down is important to keep you riding waves into your old age. What we put into our bodies is what our bodies use to grow and our source of energy. The nutrients, minerals, fats and acids contained in our diets build our bones, muscles, hair, everything on the inside and the outside. Think of your diet it as an investment in yourself and your health. Surfing demands a lot from your body, so you need to give your body what it needs. Here are some pro tips from some of the best surfers in the world for eating your way to better surfing.

A photo posted by waves of yoga (@wavesofyoga) on Nov 14, 2014 at 12:25pm PST

Learn from the Best

You only have to look at surfers like Laird Hamilton and Kelly Slater to see how a good diet combined with surfing day in, day out can get you into awesome shape. Everyone interested in diet and health try out and test their own ‘health hacks’ and these guys are no different.

A photo posted by Laird Hamilton (@lairdhamiltonsurf) on May 24, 2016 at 2:36pm PDT

When Hamilton spoke to GQ magazine he revealed that he drinks a glass of water with dissolved baking soda each morning. The reason behind this routine is that research suggests baking soda reduces the build up of lactic acid in your muscles. Lactic acid is responsible for soreness and fatigue in muscles after exercise, so we could all do with less of that.

A photo posted by Kelly Slater (@kellyslater) on Apr 24, 2016 at 2:49am PDT

As for Slater, he sticks with a cleansing glass of hot water with lemon. This combination wakes up your liver and gets any toxins that have built up overnight quickly flushed out of your system. It also stimulates your digestive system, helping your body to absorb all the nutrients that you ingest throughout the day. Listen to the man talk about diet, exercise and his approach to staying in good shape…

Be Mindful of What You Mix

Everyone knows the dangers of mixing your drinks on a night out, but what about mixing your foods? Ok so the results are not going to get you dancing on the bar and give you a killer hangover, but mixing different types of foods can give your digestive system a hard time. For example, eating carbohydrates and proteins together makes digestion more complicated for your system. These two different types of food require different digestion processes, so your body ends up taking much more time to digest them when they are eaten together. The same goes for non-acidic fruit, like an apple, and acidic citrus fruit, like a grapefruit, as they don’t combine well for digestion. Your stomach deals with different foodstuffs in different ways, so to read more about this check out this guide from TrustedHands.

A photo posted by Curl Magazine (@curlmag) on Aug 20, 2016 at 4:35pm PDT

Natural Foods All the Way

Just because something on the supermarket shelf says it has natural ingredients it doesn’t mean it’s actually natural. Sticking to real whole foods, completely unprocessed, is the best way to go for any healthy diet, and that goes for a surfing diet too. Fresh fruit and vegetables, grains and nuts, real meat and fish, not pre-packaged sausages or fish fingers. Maybe it means you’re going to have to learn a few more recipes, but it’s worth it. When you open your fridge it should look something like this…

A photo posted by Allison ☀️ (@the_fussy_foodie) on May 27, 2016 at 3:17pm PDT

A few of the women on the Championship Tour shared some of their easy surfing diet tips in this WSL article. Keeping the right balance of different foods and eating at the right time are just a couple of the things covered, all important stuff that you should incorporate into your own surfing diet. If you want a definitive guide to the best recipes from the world’s best surfers then you should pick yourself up a copy of Surf Food: The Ultimate Surfers Cookbook, it’s full of delicious meals to fuel the stoke!

A photo posted by Surfgrub (@surfgrub) on Mar 22, 2016 at 11:15am PDT

Featured image: @madamequirit via Instagram

Filed Under: News, Surf Tagged With: Surf Diet, Surf Food, Surf Health, Surfing Diet

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