Surf City Endurance
Overview of the Surf City Endurance Program
Interested in running a 5k? 10k? Marathon?! How about a Triathlon? Or maybe just focus some of your training hours on improving your running, biking, or swimming? Learn more about the Surf City Endurance program.
CrossFit works on all threshholds of your fitness and creates a well-rounded individual across the elements of performance like strength, flexibility, stamina, etc. CrossFit cannot deviate from this model for sport specific training, however, the Surf City Endurance program allows an athlete to focus on endurance sports like running, swimming, biking, or rowing as a subset to Crossfit.
At Surf City Endurance, we use Crossfit Surf City’s daily training or WODs as the back bone for our endurance athletes. Beyond that we will add additional workouts each week that focus on the particular endurance sport of interest. For example, an athlete training for a marathon will attend 4-6 CrossFit WOD’s per week and then run 2-3 times per week. This model has shown great results and will allow you to reach your endurance goals like never before. Find a coach and ask!!
4 Elements of Surf City Endurance
Surf City Endurance approaches the sport of endurance much like CrossFit approaches fitness. We preach nutrition, technique, muscle wellness, and intensity!
Nutrition: Our nutrition plan closely models what is already done at CrossFit Surf City (Paleo and The Zone). However, we will educate you beyond this with what your body needs as an endurance athlete specifically; Pre-workout, post workout, pre-race, and during a race.
Technique: Technique is very important to us. We will work on your running technique, swimming technique, and yes, biking technique. All of these activities are viewed as a skill that takes practice, practice, and more practice. As your technique improves, you will move more efficiently and suffer from fewer injuries.
Muscle Wellness: Taking care of your body the right way is just as important as training the right way. Recovery is one of the most important aspects of the training program and your body needs the benefit of mobility drills, stretching, and stress relieving drills.
Intensity: Train hard, train fast! We won’t let u do it any other way.
Coaches
Head Coach
Jay Grow
Jay has been an athlete all his life. He was an accomplished soccer player, playing with nationally ranked club, international tournaments, and with the Olympic Development Program. Beyond soccer, he ran cross-country and track as a middle/long distance runner. Recently, hes taken on the sport of triathlons.
Jay became involved with CrossFit in April of 2008 in a small garage in Huntington Beach with Anthony Campo as his coach. After a year with CrossFit Surf City, Jay earned his CrossFit Level 1 certification, CrossFit Endurance certification, and SMR Certification. He has been coaching at CrossFit Surf City for over a year and has just started the Surf City Endurance Program.
Jay has also participated in some of the local CrossFit competitions like the Next Level Performance Invitational and volunteered as a judge in the sectionals for the CrossFit games.
Jay’s passion for fitness is the feeling of accomplishment, intensity, and competition.
Outside of the gym, Jay is an engineer at SpaceX.
Contact: jason@crossfitsurfcityusa.com
Assistant Coach
Nick Del Boccio
Nick hails from Northern California and has been involved with athletics all his life. He attended the University of Nevada Reno and received a BS in Civil Engineering before relocating to Huntington Beach. He has a background in endurance sports and has competed in multiple sprint triathlons as well as the Desert Winds 12-hr adventure race.
Nick started working out at Crossfit Surf City in November of 2008 to build his strength for an upcoming fire academy. He has his Crossfit Level 1 Certification as well as his EMT-Basic Certification. He currently works as an EMT for a local ambulance company.
Contact: nick@crossfitsurfcityusa.com
