5 Health Benefits of a Surfing Holiday

Keeping Fit on Your Surfing Holidays Made Easy: Healthy surfing holidays with Star Surf Camps

Some people like to take some time before their summer holidays to get fit and healthy to look their best on the beach. While that’s certainly admirable, there’s a much easier way to get fit and healthy: Join Star Surf Camps on one of many surfing holidays to France, Spain, the Canary Islands or Morocco, enjoy a healthy lifestyle and keep fit without even realizing it. It’s true!

Here are 5 easy ways how our surf teams and surf holiday guests stay fit and healthy while on surfing holidays with Star Surf Camps:

1. Start Your Surf Camp Days Strong!

A healthy breakfast in the morning is great for many reasons: it helps boost your metabolism, keeps your blood sugar levels stable during the day, reduces the risk of overeating and cravings and helps you eat fewer calories throughout the day.

And starting your day with a healthy breakfast is super easy when on surfing holidays with us! In all our surf camps, we offer a large variety of healthy foods. With plenty of fresh and delicious choices, you’re ready for a day surfing on the beach.

2. Surf Your Heart Out!

Surfing is a great way to keep fit and, for most of our surf team, definitely the most enjoyable form of exercise possible. Surfing is a highly physical sport. Surfing regularly helps you improve your flexibility and endurance. When paddling for waves, catching waves and holding your balance on a surfboard, you make use of your bones, tendons and most muscle groups:

–          Paddling: triceps, biceps, deltoids; trapezius, rectus abdominis, latissimus dorsi and obliques.

–          Take-off: pectoralis major, deltoids, triceps and biceps.

–          Pop-up: quadriceps, gluteals and gastrocnemius.

–          Balancing: torso rotations.

3. Yoga on the Beach!

In recent years, Yoga has swept surfers all over the world off their feet with many professional surfers practicing Yoga to improve their flexibility, core strength and surfing performance. But Yoga is not just great for professionals, but for all of us for 2 reasons: it works the body as well as the mind!

So, if after a long surf camp day surfing you feel like you could do with some stretching, Yoga is a fantastic way to improve your flexibility, strengthen and tone your body, improve respiration, energy and vitality, maintain a balanced metabolism and even protect you from injury. So, go ahead and try it on your next surf holiday!

4. Enjoy the Benefits of Camping by the Sea!

Yes, it’s proven that camping is good for your health! Being outside and breathing in fresh, clean air increase your intake of oxygen which makes you happy. Happiness leads to improved moods and less stress. When out in direct sunlight, you’re taking in Vitamin D which, in turn, allows your body to absorb calcium and phosphorous.

Being outside all day is also one of the best receipts for a good night’s sleep which, again, reduces inflammation and improves your cardiovascular system. On top of that, sea air is scientifically proven to boost your immune system. Compared with ‘normal air’, sea air has more free electrons which can neutralize free radicals in our bodies. The negative ions in sea air kill bacteria which improves our health and immune system. Awesome!

5. Dancing the Night Away!

Do I need to stay more? A night out on the town with your friends is actually healthy!! According to scientists, socializing reduces stress, enhances your memory and boosts your intellectual performance.

Dancing when on a night out further increases your muscular strength as well as your endurance and motor fitness. On top of that, having a good laugh with your mates triggers the release of endorphins, you body’s natural feel-good chemical that stimulate an overall sense of well-being. So, turns out, laughter is the best medicine after all!

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