DID YOU KNOW?
The core of a wakeboard is usually made up of foam
or honeycomb, mixed with resin and coated with fiberglass.
Some Tips On How To Get The Best Wakeboard Experience
What many people, who don't wakeboard, don't realize is the level of fitness it takes to go wakeboarding on a regular basis. It may look easy from land, but it takes a lot of leg and arm strength to be able to hold on to that rope for several minutes at a time, much less hold on with one hand while you are flipping over the wake at 20 mph.
Wakeboarding Fitness Exercises
Obviously, the best way to improve your wakeboarding fitness each year is to wakeboard as much as you can. This will ensure that the proper muscles are being strengthened on a regular basis. It obviously will make you a better wake boarder too.
In many places the wakeboarding season is only a few months long so it is important that these wake boarders keep their wakeboarding fitness up in the off season.
If you want to wakeboard all summer long, injury free, you need to make sure that you are in optimal shape. This is important as some serious injuries can take place when you are wakeboarding. Many of them can be avoided by being strong, healthy, and flexible.
Wakeboarding fitness involves doing a lot of stretching and strength training exercises that work on your:
* Biceps (curls)
* Triceps (French curls, rowing machine)
* Shoulders (rowing machine, French press, dips, shrugs)
* Calves (stair climber)
* Thighs (squats, rowing machine)
* Stomach (sit ups, crunches etc.)
* Back (rowing machine, sit ups)
It is important when improving the strength of your legs that you work on both the thighs and the calves equally. This is because each way you turn on a wakeboard uses a different muscle.
If you turn toe side you use your calves, while if you turn heel side you use the muscles in your thighs. If you want to jump the wake and perform tricks over and over again you need to have strong legs more than anything else.
Don't forget the importance of stretching all the muscles you work out. This will ensure peak fitness levels and also will prevent injury.
The next most important area of your body to work on when it comes to wakeboarding fitness is your arms and shoulders. In order to become a good wake boarder and perform tricks over the wake without falling you need to be able to hold on to the rope with one hand. To do that over and over again takes a lot of arm strength.
Wakeboarding Fitness Involves a Healthy Diet
Right alongside your wakeboarding fitness should be a healthy diet. When your body is getting in shape, or is in shape already, it needs the proper amounts of protein, vitamins, and nutrients that only a diet full of organic fruits vegetables can provide. If you follow a healthy diet your wakeboarding fitness levels will increase and as a result you will be able to ride longer and harder and be less susceptible to injury.
At Diet Health and Fitness we recognize the relation between wakeboarding fitness and agility and strength in the water. We hope you utilize some of the above wakeboarding fitness and health tips laid out above to maximize your ability in the water so you can make the most out of your time on the water.
