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Core Stability, Core Strength, Corrective Exercise, Golf & Pain, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Flexibility for Golf, Mobility for Golf, Posture, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom Core Stability, Core Strength, Corrective Exercise, Golf & Pain, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Flexibility for Golf, Mobility for Golf, Posture, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom

Is this causing your back pain …? (S-Posture)

It's the most common 'pain/injury' complaints of golfers. And it can be super-frustrating for those who suffer regular bouts of it …

It restricts your ability to practice and to play. To get the 'repetitions' in that you need to improve ...

You guessed it. It's lower back pain.

And one of those most common causes of lower back discomfort in golfers is the lower crossed syndrome or 'S-Posture'.

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Corrective Exercise, Golf & Pain, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Power, Programming, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom Corrective Exercise, Golf & Pain, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Power, Programming, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom

Respecting The One-Sided Nature Of Golf (Imbalance Injury)

All of this got me thinking hard about the one-sided nature of golf ...

The imbalances this produces, how it can restrict performance and how it could set you up for injury ...


Now we are not going to get too deep into the theory here ...

Because I just want to give the most useful 'nuggets' of golf fitness info I can ...

But if continuing to play golf (uninjured) for years to come is high on your list of priorities, then this one is for you ...
 

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Corrective Exercise, Flexibility for Golf, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Golf & Pain, Screening & Assessment, Programming Andrew Ransom Corrective Exercise, Flexibility for Golf, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Golf & Pain, Screening & Assessment, Programming Andrew Ransom

He was in pain ...

He was definitely in pain …and it was affecting his golf.

Until recently ...

If you have been following the PGA Tour of late you may have seen Ryan Moore notch up another victory at the John Deere Classic ...

I didn't give that too much though initially ...

Until he gave credit to none other than his TPI Certified TRAINER ...

Brian Chandler.

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Core Stability, Corrective Exercise, Flexibility for Golf, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Mobility for Golf, Posture, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom Core Stability, Corrective Exercise, Flexibility for Golf, Golf Fitness, Injury Prevention, Mobility for Golf, Posture, Screening & Assessment Andrew Ransom

I got ahead of myself ...again !!!

On Friday we chatted about the benefits of lifting weights for golfers.

Getting stronger was the theme ...

(As well as addressing media trepidation around the way modern golfers are training).

We encountered some great reasons for a golfer to go about getting strong in the right places ...

Reduced injury risk and more club-head speed were two of the biggies ...


However ...I got ahead of myself ...again ...!!

There's a CRUCIAL step or two that comes well before jumping under a 100kg back-squat for 3 reps ...

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Driving Distance, Golf Fitness, Power, Programming, Corrective Exercise, Screening & Assessment, Core Stability Andrew Ransom Driving Distance, Golf Fitness, Power, Programming, Corrective Exercise, Screening & Assessment, Core Stability Andrew Ransom

What happened to KO ...? (exercises included)...

These are the emails I love to get ...

Sometimes you can predict them, sometimes not.

For Golfer's Edge client KO (protecting his anonymity here ...), it was clear he was about to put something awesome together.

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