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What's all this fuss about Golf Fitness?
Now, if you've arrived at our website, you might be wondering, what’s all this fuss about Golf Fitness?
How important is it really?
Isn’t Golf Fitness just for elite players and Tour Pros?
Absolutely not.
Make no mistake, golfers of every level are athletes and an effective golf swing requires a great deal of athleticism.
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'.
Can You Maintain Posture In Your Golf Swing...??? (Try This Test)
You would be hard pressed to find a golf magagzine these days where one of the 'tips from the tour' doesn't mention something about how the Pro works hard on 'Maintaining their Posture' throughout their golf swing...
Today I want to give you a little insight into what that means exactly...
And then we are going to branch off into a Super-Important TPI Screen ...
That you can try at home ...
And that could give you an insight at to why YOU struggle to 'Maintain Your Posture' ...
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 ...
So How Would You Know …? (Golf Injuries)
So how would you know …?
If you are about to get injured playing golf …
The injury could be simply annoying.
Performance reducing / score increasing.
Or, I hate to say it, at worst an injury could be career ending.
But is there a way to predict it …?
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.
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 ...
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.
Insights from a footy-head (surprising !!!)
Normally I wouldn't count on the Channel 7 Saturday Night Footy Commentary Team to be providing me with Golf Fitness Lessons ...
In all honesty, they generally do my head in ...
Sorry, I got ahead of myself ...
I think I may have got ahead of myself on Tuesday ...
(Remember the Justin Thomas, vertical thrust, lower body POWER TEST email ...?)
I jumped in the deep end of Lower Body Power...
When I really should have walked you down the steps and acclimatised in the shallow end for a while.
Why would he do THAT ...? (Lower Body Power Test)
Justin Thomas barely weighs 66 kilos. And yet, he hits it 300 yards. (Tied 17th in PGA Tour driving distance). The most interesting part about those stats vs his swing ...? His feet are almost completely off the ground when he hits the ball ...
Why would he do THAT ...?
Don't Make These 5 Golf Fitness Program Mistakes
If you are regularly getting to the gym already with Golf Fitness in mind, I applaud you. But chances are, you are relying on a Self-Designed or Generic Exercise Program rather working with a Qualified Golf Fitness Professional.
Something is better than nothing right? Only to a point...
The exercises you are doing in themselves may be OK. But put them in the context of your own individual strengths and weaknesses and its entirely possible to do yourself and your game more harm than good. Or, at best, get little to no beneficial result from all your hard work.
How To Test Your Own Core Stability
If there is one thing that can significantly help, or seriously hurt your golf swing it is your core strength & stability. So how do you know how strong, or how weak your own core stabilisers are currently...? How do you know how 'at risk' you are for a back injury...? How do you know how much more potential you have to hit the ball further and straighter by increasing your core strength and stability...?