GOLFERS, STRENGTH TRAINING & INJURY PREVENTION: WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS
Whether or not the increased training loads of elite golfers are causing injury is a hotly debated topic at the moment. The argument...
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RESEARCH REVIEW: MOVEMENT SCREENS DON'T GIVE US ALL THE ANSWERS
If you want to reduce those niggling injuries, improve your athletic performance or golf swing - you need a movement screen right? The...
4 MISTAKES GOLFERS MAKE WITH IN-SEASON TRAINING
The weather as I write this doesn't quite bear this out - got to love rainy old England - but it is the peak of the golf season. For most...
3 EXERCISES TO MASTER BEFORE YOU START SPEED & POWER TRAINING
In my professional capacity as a strength coach, and as a golfer myself, I’ve never meet a golfer who doesn’t want to hit it further!...
WHY STRENGTH IS THE MISSING INGREDIENT TO LONGER DRIVES
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...
THE ULTIMATE PRE-ROUND WORKOUT
My in-season programming follows two major rules: 1. Keep intensity fairly high whilst reducing volume in order to maintain strength. 2....
MANAGING THE IN-SEASON GOLFER
During the competitive season, a golfer pretty much has one primary goal: To win tournaments - and maybe if you’re an amateur to cut your...
3 QUICK & EASY FIXES FOR A BETTER ROW
The dumbbell row is a key exercise for any athlete to master. The horizontal pull a.k.a row is a fundamental movement pattern everybody...
5 ALTERNATIVES TO INEFFECTIVE UNSTABLE SURFACE TRAINING
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,...
WHAT 'GOLFISH' TRAINING SHOULD ACTUALLY MEAN
Rotational sports take place in all 3 planes of motion, yet most of the traditional weight training programs take place in the sagittal...
ARE YOU KILLING YOUR KID'S PROGRESS?
At Par4Success we work with hundreds of junior golfers every month who do nothing but play golf, we have a number who play other sports,...
5 NON-TRADITIONAL SUPERSETS FOR BETTER MOVEMENT
For those that don’t know supersets are a technique of putting two or more non-competing exercises together and alternating between for...
LESS VARIETY = MORE PROGRESS?
We’ve all heard the concept of “muscle confusion” before. To dumb it down to it’s lowest possible dumbness (because, you know, it’s...
TOUR WORTHY RECOVERY PROTOCOL
Recovery is an oft-overlooked part of training. You spend a lot more time outside the gym than you do in it, so it stands to reason that...
FOUR PHYSICAL KEYS TO JUSTIN THOMAS' CLUBHEAD SPEED
Justin Thomas is definitely the hottest player in golf right now, he's also around the top 20 in driving distance, averaging 308 yards...
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