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STRETCHERS! READ HERE BEFORE COMMENTING! So I know this is likely gonna get a lot of hate from people that love stretching, so I want to just clarify that I DON'T dislike stretching at all. I do it pretty frequently to chill and because it feels good. My point with this post is to highlight that people give it way too much value than it deserves, and as a result waste their time, will move slower towards their goals, and maybe even just stop considering better training options, because it didn't get them results. Stretching doesn't protect you from injuries. Stretching doesn't reduce soreness after skating or training (other than very temporarily). Stretching doesn't help you pop more (long stretches held before skating can actually do the opposite - reducing power). Stretching doesn't directly help with intense, dynamic movement. Which skating is all about. Stretching doesn't even develop "usable" or "reliable" flexibility. Which comes from an increase in strength and control through movement. Flexibility gains from stretching are likely just down to an increase in tolerance to a stretch. It can play a role as a tool in rehab, or to open up a bit of extra movement to then train in, or to relax and trigger recovery because of the relaxation. But if your goals are to feel your best on your board, and skate at your best, but all you do is stretch, OR you give stretching more value than good ol' resistance training... Then you're massively holding yourself back and wasting your time. Continue stretching, but just make sure you also resistance train. Resistance training can build mobility, stability, muscle, strength, power, coordination, endurance - adaptations we need for skating. And combined with skating itself, will actually get you feeling better, skating more, progressing faster, and reducing injury risk.

Let's be real, most of us don't actually want to work out. Even I don't! But we legitimately have no choice if we want to age well and prolong the years we feel good skating. And there are 0 exceptions. So, as it has to be done, any opportunity to cut time off of a workout session sounds good to me! Supersets are one great tool to do this, with research showing very minimal, if any, drops in strength, muscle and performance over time. With traditional training, you do say 3 sets of 10 reps, resting 1.5minutes in between each set. The reason you rest like this is to allow the fatigue you accumulated from the previous set to dissipate, leaving you recharged to razz it again for the following sets. But by supersetting exercises you don't have to just sit down and scroll sh1te on the gram, can save time by filling the rest period with a different exercise, and - as long as you're making good enough choices - still recover enough for the following sets of both exercises. This might look like pairing exercises on opposite sides of a joint, upper vs lower body, or ones that don't accumulate much fatigue, like mobility or stability work. Let's do the math... If you do 8-10 exercises per workout, with 3 sets per exercise and rest 1.5 mins between every set, that's 36-45 minutes of rest per workout!! That's 6 hours a month, which could be an extra 1.5 hour session per week! You're welcome🤝 Now just to clarify you likely will often still need to rest a small amount between sets of different exercises, as razzing a whole workout non stop would be brutal. But a huge amount of time can be saved. Maybe 3 extra skates-worth per month. If you found this useful and want to help your homies progress, give it a share for me 🙏 #skatetraining #skateworkout #supersets

How you skate in a single session doesn't say anything about your long term progression. Yeh I know having a bad session can be frustrating, but it doesn't say anything about whether you'll get where you want to go, or your skills. What does have an influence on these things is how consistently you show up and put in the work. Over time that work accumulates to the point where to the outside it looks like it happened overnight. But they just didn't see all the work you put in those days leading up to it.

I'm not joking with this one! For me, skating with cold feet is a disaster every time. I can't feel the board well, can't react as fast and my feet just feel rigid. Instead of pushing up hill and trying to warm them up in cold weather, blasting them for 2mins with warm water before leaving the house gets them feeling like it's summer and avoids that struggle of a warm up. If it's cold where you live and your feet are cold pre-sesh, this hack is one of the best things you can do.

1. GOING TOO HARD ON DAY 1 So many skaters have told me they don’t work out because they get too sore and it negatively affects their skating. This is often the case of believing that working out is only effective if you destroy yourself, which results in going way too hard in the beginning. You wouldn’t try to ollie a 10 stair the day after you learn to ollie on flat, and you shouldn’t jump into super intense workouts. To get to that 10 stair, you’d ollie off a curb, a 3 stair, 5, progressively up to that 10, and that’s exactly what you’ve got to do with training - called progressive overload. Unless you’re in a period of training where you’re intentionally going hard, your training shouldn’t get in the way of your skating. You should very rarely be so sore that you don’t feel up for a skate. 2. WORKING JUST MIRROR MUSCLES/UPPER BODY Yeh upper body strength is important for skating, but doing primarily pushups and situps is going to leave you short on so many of the huge benefits from training - like injury reduction, longevity (years more skating), joint health, faster recovery, more energy/pop/stability, etc. If you want to prepare your body for skating you’ve got to look at the movements and forces involved in skating, and build resilience to handle these. This means training with a variety of exercises for the entire body. Hitting the ankles, knees, hips, thoracic spine. Focusing on jumps, strength work, stability, mobility, etc. 3. DOING HUGE 4-6 DAY BODYBUILDER PROGRAMS Skaters that start working out often find programs that aren’t made for skating. Similar to problem 1, they jump in hard with programs that are just too time consuming, blast them for a week or two, then stop because they’re too sore or because they couldn’t fit them into their schedule. This then leaves them thinking that working out doesn’t work with skating or their lifestyle. In reality with a well designed program all most skaters need is 2x ~60mins. By optimising our workouts so they’re efficient we ultimately get more time to skate and less of what none of us really want to be doing! DM me with the words “skate training” if you want to learn more about how to train for skating. @the.daily.push

THE BODY AND MIND ARE CONNECTED. Like I mentioned in the Tiago Goggles part 1 post the other day, what you perceive as skateable depends on your physical state. You don't have to sit in a cave meditating for 9 years to understand that, you just need to train and take care of things like nutrition and recovery, and you'll quickly realise how much better you feel and how much better skating feels. Pretty much every skater I work with comments about how much better they feel after consistently working out for a month or two, and as a result how much more confident they are and better they skate. My standard response is usually "yeh, now you're screwed." Why? Because now they know what's possible. Now they know they have tools to feel and skate better. Now they're screwed because they're stuck for life having to train. But that said, how incredibly lucky are we to have tools like this that can keep us doing what we love for years longer than we would have ever imagined. FOR THE LOVE OF SKATEBOARDING.

How you perceive the world and what you think you're capable of doing on your board is totally related to what you're physically able to do. The more you skate and the better you get, the more you start to believe you can do. No one thought they could ollie a 10 stair the first day they stepped on a board, but as they kept skating and improving, it slowly started to become possible. Alongside skating a huge piece of changing your perception is training off your board too. By regularly doing a bunch of difference exercises to increase things like strength, power, stability, etc. you can increase your capacity to pop higher, land bigger gaps, skate for longer, and most importantly lowering your injury risk, giving you the full package to change how you perceive the world and what you're capable of on your board. @tiagolemoskt @nyjah @aaronjawshomoki #perception #skatehacks #skateboardtraining #skatelife #skateboardingafter30

STEAL THESE EXERCISES and build resilient knees for skateboarding! 1. ABSORBING IMPACT & DECELERATION: Training your ability to absorb force is essential for longevity in skating and reducing the chance of knee injury and pain. Even though you might jump 100s of times every session this doesn't always mean you know how to absorb force well. Some of the biggest pros in the game don't, and many of the skaters I've trained couldn't when they first came to me. For example stiff legged landings sending way more force through your joints and ligaments like the ACL in comparison to landing with flexed joints, ninja style. Why? Because your muscles, tendons, etc. are shock absorbers but their ability to absorb impact forces when you land depends on the flexion of your ankles, knees and hips. This flexion puts your muscles in an effective position to distribute force evenly and slower throughout your body. 2. BUILDING STRENGTH TO CONTROL MOVEMENT goes hand in hand with the skill of learning to make sure you're able to actually handle the forces you throw at your body with skating. This means building strength at all the key joints throughout your body. Both to handle those slow forces, but importantly fast ones too, as so much of skating is explosive, and injuries almost always occur in a split second at high speeds. You also need to focus especially on the muscles and function of the back of your body - known as the posterior chain. This is like the "braking" system of your body, acting kind of like a parachute to slow you down. Absorbing impact, and reducing pain and injury risk is all about the capacity of your posterior chain. 3. CONTROL & STABILITY is the foundation of everything. Training the systems that keep you stabilised - proprioception, the vestibular system, etc. - so you can dynamically stabilise your body to not only effectively absorb impact and move well, but save yourself from dodgy slams and positions is a huge piece of knee health. Combine all this with skating regularly and progressively and your knees will be hyped. Of course, if you have chronic knee pain or an injury, make sure you go to a sports physio/doc for specific advice. #skateforever If you want help with any of this stuff, I'm selecting 4 skaters to get on a FREE CALL with me. Go here if you want to be one of them https://forms.gle/F82SuvXtaVEgYUuJ8

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