Conventional wisdom is that the best way to improve your surfing is to surf more. That’s all good, but we all know there more days you’re not surfing than are surfing. Whether its lack of swell or just a busy schedule it can be hard to surf as often as we should if we want to improve.

Fortunately for us, we’re athletes and like any other athletes we can cross train to improve. The hardest part can be figuring which exercises will provide the most benefit for your surfing.

To answer your questions we’ve teamed up with the expert Cris Mills from Surf Strength Coach to go over some of the top surf exercises that will give you the best results. We’ve seen a lot of different exercises but we want to share some of our favorites.