You can’t always surf. There, it’s been said. It’s super frustrating – even depressing – but it’s true. No matter what your relationship to surfing is (from weekend city refugees, to surf-season nomads, to growing up on the North Shore) there will be many reasons on many days why going out just isn’t an option. In the downtime, a lot of surfers don’t know what to do with themselves. When the season comes back around, or the waves kick up again, many find themselves out of shape and struggling to keep up. It’s a disheartening prospect, especially when the highs of making surf progress are so potent, and the benefit to physical and psychological well-being so profound. The most obvious counter-measure to this scenario is simple: swimming. When conditions – weather or otherwise – make surfing impossible, keeping in shape for surfing is best achieved by staying in the water.

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