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WHY IS FITNESS IMPORTANT FOR GOLFERS?

WHY IS FITNESS IMPORTANT FOR GOLFERS?

Whenever I step outside of the bubble of this great online community or the gyms I work out of this is probably the first reaction and most common question I get. Obviously there is lots of great research and data to explain why but research is pretty boring and people often fail to see the relevance to the real world or to their golf game in particular. This is where a good analogy comes in handy to help cut through the noise and fake news you get so much of on the internet

6 MUST HAVES IN YOUR GOLF FITNESS PROGRAM

6 MUST HAVES IN YOUR GOLF FITNESS PROGRAM

You’ve been convinced - after all, all the top guys are at it. You head to the gym with the intention of working on your fitness to improve your game, you sign-up, pay your membership fee, and head to the changing room. Quickly you change and stuff your clothes into a locker, eager to get out onto the gym floor. Once out there it hit’s you - "what am I actually going to do here?" Looking around and thinking back to your PE days you know you need to warm-up, increase blood flo

FILLING BUCKETS TO IMPROVE GOLF FITNESS

FILLING BUCKETS TO IMPROVE GOLF FITNESS

In the first part of this 'improving golf fitness' series I explained why golfers are left spinning there wheels, doing programs that leave them seeing little to no carryover to the golf course, due to not training properly for the needs of the sport. Based on the needs analysis from the previous article we know we need to focus, not on endurance, but on strength, speed, co-ordination and flexibility to improve for golf performance. However, this information alone isn't enoug

UNDERSTANDING ENERGY SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE GOLF FITNESS

UNDERSTANDING ENERGY SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE GOLF FITNESS

I’m lucky to have a small but dedicated following on social media, email, this site, etc (thank you!) and this affords me the ability to get out there, so to speak, and talk to golfers about their workouts and how they can make them more effective quite a bit. As a result of this, admittedly unscientific research, I believe there is often times a fundamental miss understanding of the physical qualities needed to play golf. Self directed programs typically result in the athlet

HOW SPECIFIC DOES YOUR TRAINING NEED TO BE?

HOW SPECIFIC DOES YOUR TRAINING NEED TO BE?

Specificity is one of the most important principles of strength training. It states that training should be relevant and appropriate to the sport for which the individual is training in order to produce a training effect that positively impacts upon performance. As such, in a desire to train sport-specific, golfers have often taken the route of taking a cable/ band or hopping on a stability ball and mimicking the golf swing. However, these strategies leave too many other fact