If you want to reduce those niggling injuries, improve your athletic performance or golf swing - you need a movement screen right? The fitness industry, and the golf industry, would certainly seem to say yes. However, the fitness industry is often guilty of grabbing hold of the latest thing out there and turning it into the pancea of all ills. Screenings are often being used as a means of diagnosis of injury risk or a testing protocol to predict performance, but does the res

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

Google golf fitness and images like those to the right are a commonplace find, in fact for many standing on a bosu ball, wobble board, etc whilst completing movements that mimic the golf swing in the name of balance has become the expected notion of golf fitness. Unfortunately, this love affair with unstable surface training is preventing many from achieving their goals and improving their performance on the golf course. Whilst there can be a time and a place for unstable sur