The champion surfer talks about staying strong and in tune with her body and the ocean.
Stephanie Gilmore is the best female surfer in the world. This is not an exaggeration—Gilmore won a record-breaking eighth World Surf League Championship late last year, an accomplishment born out of 17 years on tour, a learned understanding of the ocean, and a fitness routine centered on connection, variety, and play., Gilmore’s journey to her 2022 WSL title is documented in detail, along with that of all of those partaking in the year’s World Surf Tour.
To stay in world-champion shape, Gilmore relies on bodyweight strength and resistance exercises, along with a diet that feels good, intuitively—for her that’s largely organic protein, sweet potatoes, brown-rice pasta, yogurt, and fruit—and ample emphasis on training to prevent injury and promote recovery.
I wake up and I go through a 15-minute activation routine to wake up my body. A little yoga mixed with some breathing, just kind of waking up so that I’m not just looking into my phone for an hour, trying to get the body to know it’s daytime and let’s go—and that’s before I’m eating anything. Then we’ll go surfing. It depends what the surf’s like, but the surfing will be a good hour and a half, at least where I’m paddling heaps, catching as many waves as I can, and it’s actually a great workout.
KAPALUA, HI - DECEMBER 4: Seven-time WSL Champion Stephanie Gilmore of Australia winning Heat 1 of Round 4 of the Maui Pro presented by ROXY at Honolua Bay on December 4, 2020 in Kapalua, Hawaii. I think the beauty and the beast of surfing is that we are not only competing against an opponent, we’re competing against this third party that is completely out of our control.
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