What Are Your Goals?
Would you like to try stand up paddle board for the first time and see if you like it?
Would you like to improve your stroke so you are more efficient, more powerful, go faster, and go longer without injury?
Would you like to focus on stand up paddleboard as a sport and meet your athletic potental?
Your Goals
See how it feels
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Get on a paddle board and see how it feels to paddle on your knees, get up, and paddle forward. See if it feels good to you. See if you like the movements, the standing up on the water experience, and how you move your body to propel the board forward
Improve Your Stroke
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The paddle board stroke is immensely interesting. It has 6 stages - Reach, Catch, Pull, Prepare to Exit, Exit, and Recovery. In each stage, you can learn to use your core muscles to maximize your power, speed, and endurance, and minimize your injuries
Paddle Board as a Sport
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Cardio training - You can use paddleboard as your main or secondary form of aerobic training. Just like running, biking, or the cardio machines at the gym, you can build and maintain your aerobic capacity by paddle boarding. You can traing according to heart rate, doing Level 2 some days and higher Levels other days. You can follow an organized, research based training plan to get the most out of your training. Click here for plans that Paddlemonster.com offers for a low monthly fee.
In Rhode Island, RICKA (Rhode Island Canoe and Kayak Association) offers tours on flat water rivers for kayak and SUP. Click here for their webpage.
Touring and Racing - You can pursue Stand Up Paddle Board as a sport through touring or racing. Touring can be done alone or in groups, for a day or for multiple days, locally or internationally. You can join groups that paddle the Pawtuxet River or the coast of Sardinia.
You can try racing. Do you see yourself going 3 miles as fast as you can? 6 miles? More? Racing is fun, you meet people with the same passion, and you learn to dig deep and test yourself. You can start a training program including paddling/cardio and weight training. That's the magic combination for progress and injury prevention. Click here for Paddlemonster.com training plans.
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