Why Do You Lose Distance As You Age? It’s no secret most golfers significantly lose distance as they get older. Is the primary reason for this the year they were born, or are other (controllable) factors more significant? Of course age is important, and a decline in physical qualities and distance is inevitable. The purpose…
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How To Overcome Golf Injuries And Get Back To Playing Your Best: I don’t know the exact percentage of golfers who play with one or more ongoing injuries, I just know it’s a lot. Knees, hips, backs, shoulders, necks, elbows, and wrists are all common areas of concern. The vast majority of these issues are…
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Complex Training For Power Development In Golfers The Relevance Of Training To Increase Power. Complex Training – A Simple Method To Increase Strength & Power In Golfers. Sample Workouts – Complex Training Exercise Combinations For Golfers. Important Considerations For Implementing Complex Training. Summary. 1. The Relevance Of Training To Increase Power: The physical demands for…
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The picture in the heading sets the scene for this article. Last month I asked my followers to vote for which physical department they felt most deficient in. As you can see from the results, 59% voted for mobility, 22% voted for general conditioning, 16% voted for strength and power, and 3% voted that they…
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Study Title: Effects Of Long Term Periodisation Training In Korean Elite Golfers Study Location: Korean Institute Of Sports Science, Seoul, Korea. Kim et al 2016. Study Aim: Investigate the effects of a 20 week periodised strength and flexibility training program in elite, male, Korean golfers. To assess the effect on golf driving performance the following…
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Clubs, balls, shoes, mental training, lessons. Golfers are always searching for the next thing that is going to transform their game. If a product has promise, golfers are like addicts, they must have it. Often times regardless of the price. Something that goes untapped, is the bottom of the pyramid, or the engine of the…
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The off-season is here for many meaning it’s the perfect time of year to evaluate what you need to work on to improve your golf game. From what I can see, more people are realising the critical role physical attributes play in the ability to make high quality golf swings. As a result more golfers…
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While not necessarily directly related to performance, the vast majority of people I have worked with at some point ask questions about “losing weight, getting leaner, toning up, dropping fat etc”. This makes perfect sense for health, lifestyle, and fitness reasons. From talking with them it’s immediately obvious that most of them are trying to…
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Golf is changing. No doubt about it. Watch the coverage on television, look at the world rankings, listen to players interviews, or read what they say in the papers. Nothing gets more talk in golfing circles currently than distance. Top players are hitting the ball further, and courses are getting longer. First Tiger Woods, and…
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The quality of the program prescribed is obsolete without adherence. Trying to get somebody to stick to a new habit, which is what training is, can be quite difficult. A common reason why people who start training don’t keep it up past the novelty stage is that it takes too long. This can lead to…
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Before diving into what I view as 5 of the most common mistakes people make when physically training for golf, let’s have a quick recap of what exactly the job of a strength and conditioning (s&c) program for golf is. In my mind there are two things that it really boils down to. There are…
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I like to think I am fairly open minded and wiling to change when it comes to training and coaching. As my experience has grown I have changed my opinion on certain things but many of the principles I believed in when I started training/coaching have remained quite constant. One of my unwavering beliefs is that everybody,…
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Key Points: This article is little bit more “sciencey” and less golf specific than most of my others, but the message is extremely relevant for golfers Strength training is vitally important for quality of life during the aging process Lack of strength training will decrease your quality of life in old age and will increase…
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In today’s world many of us spend huge amounts of time hunched over a desk, sitting in the car, and watching TV. A large percentage of you reading this probably spend 40-60 hours per week sitting. Couple this with limited physical activity and you are looking at a very sedentary, inactive week. Not ideal for…
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I love asking my followers on Twitter questions. It gives me great insight into the level of education and knowledge they have about particular topics. This allows me create informational content with an appropriate level of detail and complexity. I asked the exact same question in March 2017, and November 2019. Unfortunately in the 2017…
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Hi everyone, I put together a very basic 3 part series about how the body works to create power in the golf swing. There is also an exercise included in each post for you to try out at home or in the gym and hopefully help you in your quest to get “Fit For Golf”.…
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To get the bad joke out of the way immediately….No I’m not going to write about the TV show. The first installment of this series on power generation can be found here: Power Essentials Part 1: Ground Force & Leg Strength. X-Factor (XF) is a much talked about measure in the golf world and even though […]
This is the first of a three part series I am going to put together on what golfers need to know about training their bodies to give them the potential to create more club head speed. The next two will be x-factor, and x-factor stretch. The aim is to keep it very simple, and provide…
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5 Pillars of Golf Strength and Conditioning
I wrote this article after developing a series of training programs to be made available for purchase online (available here). Preparing these programs was an excellent way to solidify my current thoughts on the physical qualities golfers should focus on, and a progression system for the methods that are in my opinion, an efficient way of accomplishing this. Therefore the aim of this article was two-fold, to promote the product I have for sale, but also to provide an insight into how I currently organise the physical preparation of golfers. Hopefully golfers, trainers, swing instructors, physios, and fitness enthusiasts can benefit.
The links to purchase your Fit For Golf online training programs are at the bottom of this page. Clicking on one of the buttons will bring you to a secure PayPal page where you can complete the transaction.
