Paddling Injuries: How Loving the Conditions and Training Works when We are Injured
Dealing with Paddling Injuries Spend enough time on this website, or the Paddle Monster Facebook page and you’ll notice two mantras, mottos or hashtags: Love…
Category: Training
Beginning Racing: Your First Chattajack Race
Your First Chattajack Race Guessing that a whole host of first-time Chattajack racers are signed up for this year’s 32-mile sojourn down the Tennessee River…
Intro to LandPaddling: Quarantine Edition
I’ve had several inquiries about land paddling since the lockdown of 2020 began, so I thought a quick primer might be in order. Introduction I…
Training in the Time of Covid and Social Distancing: The Mental Game
Upping the Mental Game While Social Distancing Wow, 2020 got weird real fast, didn’t it? Just after the end of the second Paddle Monster training…
Why Everyone Can Benefit from Training Camps
Training Camps Work for Everyone Last weekend, just a few miles south of Vero Beach, Florida where many Major League Baseball teams come to shake…
Training Video: Don’t Just Survive, Thrive!
Thriving in Paddle Training Just doing the miles isn’t enough. To perform well, you need to do more than just miles. Paddle Monster Coach Larry…
The Top Ten Things to Love About the Off Season
Time Off From Paddle Training Yes, we all really know that there is no such thing as the “off season.” Even taking a scheduled break…
OC Winter Training: What Should I do?
Winter training… It’s (usually) cold, gloomy, demotivating, and many strongly dislike it. Lucky for me, it’s currently 70 degrees on the Carolina Coast so I…
Powering Through: Getting Through Training Misery
This can be one of the hardest times of the year where training goes – maybe you are concentrating on building strength and are doing…
Kai Lenny: VV02 Max Training with Nike
Nike Trainer Ryan Flaherty works with Kai Lenny to improve his performance on the water, priming the stand up paddle boarder to break record times.
10 TIPS TO MASTERS TRAINING
Guest post by Mick DiBetta With the competition season off and running, its interesting hear the feedback from the over 40 age groupers after…
Board Meeting Episode 2: Preparing for the Molokai 2 Oahu SUP Race – Part 1
Here’s episode 2 of Board Meeting, our new SUP show where we talk about all things stand up paddle surfing and racing. In this episode,…
Biomechanics SUP Series #4 – Legs
The fourth video in KIALOA’s Biomechanics SUP Series focuses on getting the most out of your legs. Learn with us how to paddle longer, paddle…
Cynthia Aguilar’s favorite exercises for prone paddlers
Here are two videos Cynthia shared with the Mullet that she loves for helping strengthen and stretch the muscles prone paddlers (an everyone else) use…
Kody Kerbox Training in the Zone with Suzie Cooney
photo by Simone Reddingius Check out this post from Suzie Cooney from Suzie Trains Maui: Training in the zone with Kody Kerbox, Naish stand up…
Get your Riding Bumps Code to Start Training!
Repost from 2014. Use the coupon code and get your discount: I’m sitting here on my rear waiting to get my cast off and thinking…
Larry Cain dispelling myths and clearing up misconceptions in new blog post
Larry has had access to some amazing technology since he started working with the Canadian Canoe/Kayak Team last June. it’s allowed him to better understand a paddler’s technique…
How You Know You’re Training for Chattajack
When training for any endurance event, as things gear up, you could say life changes a little. The following are a few recent observations of…
Distance Race Preparation: Avoiding the Freak Out
Let’s start with how unqualified I am to write this: I’m not a doctor. I’m not a personal trainer. I’m not a certified anything except…
Fitness Onboard Certification
FITNESS ONBOARD CERTIFICATION: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FITNESS AND SUP The Fitness Onboard Certification (FOC) is a Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) fitness program…
QuickFit with Quickblade: How to do a One Leg Squat
Short Description Work on balance and core with this simple exercise.
QuickFit: How to do Lawnmowers with Jimmy Terrell
Jimmy Terrell from Quickblade shows you how to do “lawnmowers” with free weights to improve core strength for stand up paddle boarding. Exclusive for Distressed…
EXCLUSIVE: QuickTips from Quickblade-Larry Cain Pushup Progression
Larry Cain breaks down how to get to his level of doing the push up
Quick Stand Up Paddle Training Tip: How to Bring More Power to the Blade
This exercise for stand up paddling is designed to increase your total purchase power from your entire shoulder complex directly to the blade of your…
How to Increase Your SUP Power Strokes and Balance Training Tip
This quick stand up paddling performance tip that shows you how to increase your stroke paddling power from deep within your core and obliques, while…