No more scraping by on four or five hours. For top performance, shoot for seven to eight (or, in my case, nine) every night. To support the recovery that happens overnight, I drink chaga tea before I ...

For Laird Hamilton, the hard-charging surfer known for “The Heaviest Wave” ever ridden at Teahupo’o, basically inventing foiling, and pioneering tow-in surfing, the blessings and burdens of the human ...

I ask a lot of my body. On a big day of surfing, I’m up before 5 am and can be in the water for six hours—and that might be after a week or two of high activity. The extreme conditions demand an ...