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Here's what a workout looks like for me the day before I'm in the streets filming. Exercises picked specifically so I can continue progressing towards my goals but without leaving me haggard for the session. And well, it worked - woke up fresh and stacked 2 clips. If you're not sure how to blend training and skating throughout your week, drop me a DM with the word "training" and I'll send you a free guide on how you can do it, not only without negatively affecting your skating, but actually benefiting it.

Tired during long sessions? You might not be hydrating and energising right. This DIY energy drink’s got you covered. Designed to fuel long sessions, and without all the extra bullsh1te you get from store bought energy drinks. The recipe: • 500ml green tea (hydration, caffeine, antioxidants) • 500ml water (hydration) • 25g honey + 15g sugar (fast digesting energy) • ¼–½ tsp salt - more or less depending on how much you sweat (electrolytes - sodium) • 1 lemon (antioxidants) • 1 kiwi (extra carbs + electrolytes - potassium) • Ginger (antioxidants, anti-inflammatory) • 15g optional protein powder (reduce in-session damage & recovery boost) When to drink it? If your session is under 90 mins, water's fine. But once you pass that 90-minute mark, you need more than water. What you get in this bottle will power about 60–90 minutes, more or less depending on how hot/sweaty/high intensity the session is. I've had a lot of people make this and tell me they thought it was banging, so give it a go and let me know what you think!

Dehydration goes hand in hand with overheating (part1 dropped the other day) and it’s the combination of these two that really destroy your performance and put you at risk when you skate. The funny thing is, dehydration is the result of your body trying to cool you down - as sweating is your body’s primary cooling system - with sweat carrying heat out of your body. But the more you sweat, the more you dehydrate, which results in your sweat system becoming more inefficient and worse at getting rid of heat. Ultimately, this sends you into a downward spiral of even more overheating and dehydration. SO you want to stay ahead of the game and do your best to stay hydrated when you skate. Not only so you skate better in the moment, but so you don’t cause unnecessary stress to your body, you recover better, and avoid serious heat illnesses like @waywardnephew Hydration is actually the balance between fluid and salt (electrolytes). That said, for sessions up to 60 mins long, getting electrolytes from your diet, and drinking water during the session is enough. But longer sessions, and especially in the heat, require more of an effort. During these sessions staying hydrated means combining water with salts, and ideally carbohydrates too. Here are some general guidelines that are good starting points for most people: - Drink about 200-300ml (6-10oz) every 15mins (This will give you about 800-1200ml per hour. You can’t absorb much more than 1L per hour, so if you’re going for a long, intense session you’ll have to accept that some level of dehydration WILL be unavoidable.) - Mix in about ¼-½ tea spoon of salt per hour. This a good general guideline for most people. - Adding in carbohydrates will also help fluid absorption - 30-90g per hour. We’re all different, so play around with these numbers to find out what feels best to you. I know all that might seem confusing, but it doesn’t have to be. It can be as simple as drinking about a small glass of water and a mouthful of salted dried fruit every 15mins, or getting it all pre-packed into a sports drink (homemade recipe dropping soon!). Chris Haslam's interview clips taken from @thenineclub

The truth about consistency is there's no such thing as one perfect technique. Yeh there are general ideas and techniques that apply to how most people do a trick - weight on the front foot and towards the heel to pinch a crook for example. But consistency is all about how you can apply those general techniques and pull off the trick in a bunch of different situations. Maybe rough ground causes you to pop differently, maybe you’re skating a crusty ledge and your upper body needs to react and move about to keep you balanced, maybe you’re crooking at speed and need to crouch a bit to hold on to it, or fatigue and soreness change muscle activation or cause you to flex your joints less. All these situations require slightly different techniques to pull off the trick and by mixing up how you practice, you become flexible with how you do that trick. This means that when you’re faced with all this variety, your body’s like "I've been here before", has so many more cards to play, and can respond to the situation in the moment, on the fly. One perfect technique on a single perfect spot = rigidity with that trick, and as soon as you’re taken out that environment it will fall apart. Being able to do the same trick thousands of different ways = adaptability with that trick, and you’ll be way more consistent with it. #consistency #skatehacks #skatehack #skatelife #howtoskate#skateeverydamnday #tricktips #tricktip

These days a big number of pros and skaters in general are training and they swear by it. Like Reynolds said “That stuff changes your skating”. But you’re stuck like “WTF am I doing wrong?!” “I’m so sore after every workout, and so far it’s only got in the way of my skating.” “I feel stiff, in pain and even my pop is down.” The truth is, you’re doing it wrong. But! The other more important truth is, you can learn to do it better and get all the insane benefits training gets for you and your skating. So many skaters struggle with this, so I’ve put together this free guide to help you learn how to balance training and skating. In it you’ll learn how to: Train without ruining your sessions Build resilience without constant soreness Actually get the benefits from training you were hoping for Drop me a DM on IG or mail me at thedailypushonline@gmail.com with the biggest challenge you've been facing with your skating or training lately, and I’ll send it over.

Stability and reactivity doesn’t just get you skating well, it also gives you a level of protection from injury too. How? Well every time you move, your body is interacting with the environment and all the forces that are coming at you from everywhere to potentially throw you off balance. From the outside, like cracks in the ground, landing on an uneven surface, a sticky patch on the ledge. To the inside, like your arm swinging or your weight shifting too far to one side. Thousands of times a second your body reacts to these forces - through things like muscle contractions and changing the position of your joints to keep you balanced and stable. There’s no time for thinking, it’s an ultrafast feedback loop largely outside of your conscious control. Stability is all about being able to react to change to stay balanced and move how you want, but it also allows you to tolerate and create more force in general, reducing how much force you offload to parts of the body that weren’t built for it. The slower your body reacts to correct its movement and the more unstable you are, the more your chance of injury risk and pain will go up. Stay tuned if you want to know exercises to work on these areas! And if you want help getting strong and ready for skating, just hit me up.

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IF YOU TRULY LOVE SKATEBOARDING, you’d train like @Prod84skate Every skater that wants to skate for as many years as possible and feel good whilst doing it should train. No exceptions. There’s a common misconception that skating is enough to keep your body prepared for skating, but it simply isn’t true, and especially as you age. As you get older, recovery slows. This means a session that used to not affect you when you were younger can now leave you hobbling for days. Training increases your resilience so you can better handle the “abuses of skateboarding”. That not only means you have less to recover from, but you’ll progress faster as you’re able to skate more and at a higher intensity more regularly. Even though many skaters don’t think they do anything athletic, skating depends on muscle, strength, mobility, power, etc., and these are all things that decline with age. With training, you not only slow the decline, but can increase all of these qualities too. Do I even need to explain how more power will leave you feeling better when you skate? Many skaters move in the same way in most sessions - skating primarily in one stance or doing more or less the same tricks - neglecting many different movements and ways to use your body. This can cause imbalances, compensations and weakness where you want strength. With training you can fill in the gaps and keep your body functioning all round on point, even if you choose to skate mainly in one stance. All these things combined will reduce injury risk, many common aches and pains, and ultimately prepare you to handle skating for many, many more years than someone who only skates. And this is just scratching the surface of the benefits of training! Give this a share in your stories or someone that needs to start training! Clio taken from @thenineclub #prod #skateforever #skateworkout #skatelife #skateboardingworkout