5 New Year’s Resolutions To Try With Your SUP
16 Nov 2025
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New Year’s resolutions–we all have them. Some of them recurring, some of them new, all of them somewhat intimidating and exciting at the same time. Countless studies show that only about 20% of resolutions are kept two years after making them. So what gives? Is it the pressure? The tension of giving ourselves a timeline?
Just maybe, we can allow ourselves to mess up. Just maybe, we can reframe our minds to look into the endless possibilities found within a New Year’s resolution, making it a more sustainable pursuit. So, whether you start today, on New Year’s Day, or halfway through the year, here are 6 New Year’s resolutions you can try with your paddle board.
1: Get an Adventure Journal
Some of the best stories left to tell are those that we’ve yet to live. Will you meet a group of backpackers on the way down to the water? Will you visit a new state with breathtaking views? How will you feel on your solo trip, paddling in a place you’ve never been? Taking an adventure journal out to the nearest ocean for your morning paddle, or across state lines to visit a new bay, is the perfect way to capture all the new memories that the coming year has in store.
2: Meet Your Health & Exercise Goals
Time and time again, we make new goals to better help our bodies, and whether those goals have been met or not, our health will always matter. Implementing small, sustainable health goals into your life will yield to be highly beneficial in the long run. From getting into shape, releasing stress, and learning how to keep a good balance, there are so many reasons why paddle boarding is great exercise. Try introducing a daily or weekly paddle into your routine, meditate, or try a high-intensity workout on your SUP.
3: Learn a New Skill or Improve Your Skill Level
One of the best parts about a paddle board is the versatility it offers. From doing yoga, to fishing, surfing, and many more types of fitness activities, learning a new skill, or improving your current skill level is a great way to take on a challenge that leads to so many adventurous possibilities. As we write resolutions that focus on bettering ourselves, our paddle board is just one of the many ways we can challenge ourselves to achieve even bigger goals.
4: Practice Relaxaion.
Rather than thinking of resolutions as something with an absolute timeline, we’d like to think resolutions are really just attempts at lifestyle changes; often changes that allow us to live life a little more freely. Whether we’re coming back from a stressful day at work, or in need of less screen time, your SUP is the perfect way to escape and spend more time on the water.
5: Live Life to the Fullest
And finally, the resolution that has no start, and no stop—live your life to the fullest. At the risk of sounding like a cliché “live, laugh, love” home decor sign, don’t forget about the voice within you asking “what’s next?” Not the pestering kind either. The one that dares you to take on that lengthy hike, the one that stoked the curiosity in you to paddle, and the one that often tempts you to leave everything that feels comfortable, for everything that could be worth it.
Just maybe, we can allow ourselves to mess up. Just maybe, we can reframe our minds to look into the endless possibilities found within a New Year’s resolution, making it a more sustainable pursuit. So, whether you start today, on New Year’s Day, or halfway through the year, here are 6 New Year’s resolutions you can try with your paddle board.
1: Get an Adventure Journal
Some of the best stories left to tell are those that we’ve yet to live. Will you meet a group of backpackers on the way down to the water? Will you visit a new state with breathtaking views? How will you feel on your solo trip, paddling in a place you’ve never been? Taking an adventure journal out to the nearest ocean for your morning paddle, or across state lines to visit a new bay, is the perfect way to capture all the new memories that the coming year has in store.
2: Meet Your Health & Exercise Goals
Time and time again, we make new goals to better help our bodies, and whether those goals have been met or not, our health will always matter. Implementing small, sustainable health goals into your life will yield to be highly beneficial in the long run. From getting into shape, releasing stress, and learning how to keep a good balance, there are so many reasons why paddle boarding is great exercise. Try introducing a daily or weekly paddle into your routine, meditate, or try a high-intensity workout on your SUP.
3: Learn a New Skill or Improve Your Skill Level
One of the best parts about a paddle board is the versatility it offers. From doing yoga, to fishing, surfing, and many more types of fitness activities, learning a new skill, or improving your current skill level is a great way to take on a challenge that leads to so many adventurous possibilities. As we write resolutions that focus on bettering ourselves, our paddle board is just one of the many ways we can challenge ourselves to achieve even bigger goals.
4: Practice Relaxaion.
Rather than thinking of resolutions as something with an absolute timeline, we’d like to think resolutions are really just attempts at lifestyle changes; often changes that allow us to live life a little more freely. Whether we’re coming back from a stressful day at work, or in need of less screen time, your SUP is the perfect way to escape and spend more time on the water.
5: Live Life to the Fullest
And finally, the resolution that has no start, and no stop—live your life to the fullest. At the risk of sounding like a cliché “live, laugh, love” home decor sign, don’t forget about the voice within you asking “what’s next?” Not the pestering kind either. The one that dares you to take on that lengthy hike, the one that stoked the curiosity in you to paddle, and the one that often tempts you to leave everything that feels comfortable, for everything that could be worth it.