SUZIE COONEY
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Years of SUP: 4 years
Riding style: surfing, racing, flatwater, downwinders
Claim to Fame: 1st Place on Naish 14ft Glide 1:15:16 OluKai SUP race 2011 (Age Division), 3rd place age group Olukai Race 2010, Maui’s Elite Fitness Trainer incorporating SUP, SUP clinic director/instructor SUP Event director hosting 400+ women and 30 sponsors, Elite SUP Athlete for The True Collection Team
Person you’d most like to be on the water with: Simone Reddingius, I can’t catch Dave K.!
Guilty pleasure: gross super sweet frosting on cheap birthday cakes
Catchiest song in your playlist: Vertigo by U2
Food in your belly right now: none
If you’re not SUPing, you are: windsurfing, surfing, dirt biking, working out, playing guitar
Website or Blog: Suzie Trains Maui, standuppaddlingfitness.com
Listen to Suzie here: Radio Segment
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NEWS & SUP FITNESS WITH SUZIE
- Stand Up Paddle Interval Training to the Beat March 12, 2013
Stand Up Paddle Interval Training to the Beat Music makes the world go round and it makes me paddle faster! Let’s face it, training at high speed anything takes a little more motivation than usual. To help keep your SUP training sessions more focused and gratifying, try using some groovy tunes to help you paddle faster! Whether you’re training for long distance courses, or adding time or additional miles to your current training regime, those long, hard miles combined with some energetic tunes to make you smile through the pain…
- ADDING NEW DIMENSIONS TO YOUR SUP PERFORMANCE February 15, 2013
These exercises will help you increase your overall SUP performance. They are presented with a clear progression from easier to advanced. All levels of paddlers can take away a few new training tips and techniques here. As a trainer and paddler, I want to introduce a new concept that will help keep your brain and stand up paddling skills extra sharp in all dimensions. What I mean by this is that we live and paddle in one dimension. We walk forward, we swim forward, we surf forward and we all…
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