fitness and surfing

"Surfing is a whole body exercise," the Surfer's Medical Association wrote in 1993, "utilizing most of the body's 600 or so muscles, particularly the heart." A study conducted by Australian fitness expert Rudi Meir found that a typical one-hour beachbreak surf session—with 44 percent of the time spent paddling, 35 percent waiting for waves, and 5 percent spent riding waves—burned nearly 500 calori...