Golf can be infuriating at the best of times. However, a golfer making steady progress is a happy golfer. If you reading this blog you’re likely a pretty committed golfer who is working on their fitness, swing technique and probably anything else you can think of to improve. This leads us to a critical question – How do you know that you’re getting better at golf? In my opinion as an S&C coach, we often lose sight of that fact that you golfers are above all else looking to im

The weather has finally broken, you can get back on the golf course and the season has started in earnest - as much as you love it, your life just got even busier! You need to find time to get in the practice and play as well as balance work and family commitments. One of the things that typically gets left behind then is your strength training. Alternatively as we head into golf season many will deliberately stop training, believing they have done that work over winter and i

Whether or not the increased training loads of elite golfers are causing injury is a hotly debated topic at the moment. The argument usually goes something like this: [Insert name of recently injured tour pro here] trains in the gym and lifts weights and that same player got injured so training and lifting weights causes golfers to get injured. At first glance it seems logical and is pretty persuasive considering the names cited are often some of the most high profile players

There is no denying that distance matters. Indeed, of the top 10 players in the world right now 8 are in the top 35 of driving distance on the PGA tour and of the two that aren’t one is Henrik Stenson who basically hits a 3 wood off every tee these days. Similarly, research has an increase in driving distance of 17metres will reduce your score over a round by 2.5 shots - maybe not listening to my childhood coach when he would spout that old adage ‘drive for show, putt for do

My in-season programming follows two major rules: 1. Keep intensity fairly high whilst reducing volume in order to maintain strength. 2. Train for power in the 24-48 hours prior to a competitive round to ensure optimal power output and performance. More detail on the rational and practicalities of the first point can be found in my previous article on in-season training. From here on out, this article will focus on the second point. I will state up front that what is deta

Increasing mobility is one of the most common goals of a golf fitness program. Indeed we know golfers need a decent amount of mobility in all joints, in order to be able to effectively and efficiently swing the club. We also know that asymmetries in mobility can lead to injury. However, mobility or corrective exercise often leads to 'tests' with a pass-fail score and ‘fixing’ someone’s screen often results in a very limited program with an isolationist approach that doesn’t r

As some of you may have noticed things have been pretty quiet on our blog and social media accounts of late. There was a reason and that reason is pretty great (well we hope you think so anyway)...we've been busy designing and building a new website, creating a fantastic new video webinar resource and comprehensive overhauling our online coaching programs to make them the most professional and comprehensive program on the market to golfers today. The new site will be here at