We have all been out on our SUP board trying to figure out how to make our stroke more efficient. What kinds of exercises will help us improve our SUP skills? How can we put it all together and use leverage to move our board in a more efficient manor? Leverage is the key to it all, using our body to work with our board will help us become the best paddler possible.
STEP UP YOUR SUP STROKE: THE ART OF APPLYING LEVERAGE
"Leverage" is likely not the first term that comes to mind when you think about fitness and sports performance. Without leverage, however, you can't achieve any of the typical fitness objectives, such as power, strength, or speed. In fact, leverage is relevant to all basic movements we make.
Archimedes once said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." That statement—a basic explanation of how leverage is created—is mechanical in nature, but it can be translated into human terms.
