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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

Imagine you’re driving in a car and suddenly slam the brakes on to avoid running over a badger, vs slowly coming to a stop at a traffic light. How do each of these feel? Obviously, slowly decelerating is going to feel way smoother, whereas slamming the brakes on will jerk you forwards and your mate sitting in the back seat will fly forwards squishing their sandwich between the seat in front and their own face. That actually happened to my mate when I crashed my car at the age of 18 lol. Anyway, it’s the same with your body. Slamming on the brakes is like landing rigid, whereas flexing your joints allows you to decelerate slower, better distributing those spikes of energy/force through your body. The more you do this, the more your knees will thank you and even your chances of rolling away from some high impact tricks will go up! I would put money on Reynolds aging so well being partly down to how he absorbs force. Now that doesn’t mean you have to land deep squatted every time, even he doesn’t land like that every time. But considering how much you can jump in a session and how high the forces can be, you likely want to avoid these stiff landings as much as possible and aim more for flexed landings. DM me if you want some help figuring out a plan that works for your specific situation.

Feeling on point as you get past the ages of 21-25 isn’t something that just happens by accident, it’s something that takes effort and committed action. Like Reynolds said - “doing the stuff that no one wants to do”. But stuff you do FOR THE LOVE OF SKATEBOARDING, because you know you can do more, and because you’ve got goals you still want to reach. But it’s been hard, maybe because of: a busy schedule struggling to stay consistent for more than 2 weeks information overload & not knowing what to do always ending up too sore when you try to workout And these are totally valid challenges. 1000% valid challenges. These things make it even harder to stay on it, and they highlight why someone else’s routine you find online likely won’t work for you - we’re all different and our lives are totally different. But by locking in the right systems and routines that work for YOU, you can be consistent with the things that will reinforce your body so you can skate and feel at your best. With every single skater I coach and almost every habit/routine they lock in - training, nutrition, recovery, mindset - a big piece of it is going back and forth to navigate the challenges. Trying something, using what happened as feedback, and then mixing up the plan to better suit what happened. That is literally the point of coaching. All the information you need to reach your goals is probably online, and you might even know what you need to do. The difficult part is doing it, and doing it consistently enough that it becomes just a part of who you are. When you build a lifestyle that supports how your body functions when you skate, feeling on point becomes way more predictable. And once you’ve stayed consistent long enough to realise how good you could feel, you’ll never go back. If you feel like now is the time to finally start getting on it, DM me on instagram (@the.daily.push) or mail me to thedailypushonline@gmail.com and let’s chat, no strings attached.

Lots of skaters complain about getting too sore from working out and as a result sack training off altogether. The truth is if you’re feeling too sore and training is constantly getting in the way of your skating, you’re more than likely just pushing it way too hard. Skaters crawled out of the sewers as senders. They don’t like to slow down. They don’t like the idea of rest and often see it as a weakness. Like “nah I should be able to just push it at all times!” That belief forms when you’re younger, and it works back then. You recover from a 4 hour session with a jam sandwich. But when you hit your early 20s, things start changing, and your ability to full send at all times, declines. This is literally why skaters consider working out, it SHOULD help you build resilience so you can handle more skating after all. And in fact skaters that really lock in that habit often say they feel better now than when they were younger. But when you apply the full send mindset to skating and training at all times, you’re going to struggle. Guaranteed. This is why one of the most common skills I work on with the skaters I coach is this ability to better balance training and skating. It’s absolutely possible, you just need the right strategy. So don’t give up on training!! It’s 100% what you need, you just need to apply it right. DM me on IG @the.daily.push or send me a mail to thedailypushonline@gmail.com if you wanna know how

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the recovery tools so many people focus on, get them sooooooo LITTLE in terms of recovery (and stretching gets you nothing!). The basics done well in the other 23 hours of your day are by far the most important. THESE ARE: • sleep, nutrition, hydration, stress management • not pushing so hard with skating/training that you can't recover from it (more common than you might think!) • increasing resilience through training/lifestyle so skating causes less damage and you have to recover less • spending as much of your time in a chilled (parasympathetic) state as possibleand then after you're killing it with all this stuff, maaaybe a foam roller or massage gun will help you a tiny bit. If you want to recover better, focus on the basics that are well researched. Also by all means keep using the other tools, even stretching and especially if it helps you relax. Because that relaxation post-sesh is the most valuable, no matter how you make it happen. What are your go to methods?! Let us know down below. And if this helped you out, give it a share! #skaterecovery #skatetraining #skatenutrition #skateordie #skateforever

Visualisation or mental imagery isn't a secret, but skaters often don't use it right. In this video I break down some key pieces of visualisation and how to apply it to your skating. Because let's be honest, the cliché that skateboarding is 90% mental is pretty accurate. 🔥APPLY FOR SKATE COACHING HERE🔥 https://www.thedailypush.com/skate-performance-coaching 👀WATCH NEXT👀 ✅ HOW TO BUILD STRONG & RESILIENT KNEES FOR SKATEBOARDING https://youtu.be/IuAG0qzMBXM ✅How to noseslide & hold your slides (+ exercises & step by step progressions) https://youtu.be/X0CRZ7GKDQ8 ✅Master boardslides FAST & overcome fear with proven exercises & progressions https://youtu.be/UNZAXQKZpng ✅The Ultimate Guide to Manual Like a Pro (+ exercises) https://youtu.be/nNqLyUisD04 ✅ More on proprioception & vestibular training (+ exercises) https://youtu.be/zM6cK_qYMHw 🌎 WATCH NEXT: Skate Performance Workshop episodes: 1. How to learn skate tricks FAST (and hold onto them): https://youtu.be/z3Ih7hb6rb0 2. How Your Mindset Is Holding Your Skating Back & How to Overcome It: https://youtu.be/eoiFmcMFQ98 3. How To ACTUALLY Get Better At Skateboarding: https://youtu.be/cnbPfaZZJt0 4. How to Conquer FEAR & Commit To Your Tricks: https://youtu.be/FEBf19yHpbM 🔥 WHAT THE DAILY PUSH IS ABOUT: https://www.thedailypush.com The Daily Push is a project made by skateboarders for skateboarders covering everything you need to know to improve how you skate and feel when you skate. Session hacks, recovery, training, nutrition, mindset, and so much more. If you're looking to increase your energy levels, pop, longevity and to just feel better on and off your board, The Daily Push has you covered!