Have you ever missed a wave because you were out of breath or because you just weren’t paddling hard enough?  Well, here’s a surf workout that’s designed for building core strength.  They say 10 minutes 3 days/week.  You can read more about this brief workout at surfersvillage.com.      

"After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith."  Read entire review [...]

  Not all seafood is good for you.  In fact, some seafood can actually be bad for you and the environment.  Here’s a cool guide that tells you how eco-friendly your favorite type of seafood is.  The guide also indicates whether there is a health advisory for each species.  Pretty nifty. Link

Scientists have reason to believe that if you don’t reapply sunscreen after having been in the sun for two hours, then you might be better off not using sunscreen in the first place.  Going without sunscreen is certainly not advised, so the take-away here is to be more diligent about reapplying.  Check out this brief [...]

The LA Times reports that an environmental economist at UCLA, in partnership with Stanford University, recently published a study concluding that each year 1.5 million people get sick from visiting California beaches. The study goes so far as to estimate that all those illnesses cost the economy up to $414 million annually. “Researchers estimated that [...]

CNN has an article about how surfing helps people stay in shape both physically and mentally.  It also points out some of the physical impairments that long-time surfers face. For anyone, who’s ever paddled a surfboard in the ocean at least once, this article states the obvious.  If you’ve never surfed and are considering surfing [...]