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Golf and Fitness.....​

Two words you might not think belong together. Golf & fitness are important to those golfers who truly want to improve their games, and who want to improve their physical abilities. You do this by addressing issues of inflexibility, strength, and balance. Paying attention to these key areas  can help to lower your score.

Statistics show more than 60% of all recreational golfers will suffer one or more golf related injuries during the course of their time playing. Most of these injuries result from poor mechanics, a lack of flexibility and generally poor golf conditioning. The most common injuries among amateur male golfers are the low back (36%), elbows (32.5%), hands and wrists (21.2%) and shoulders (11%). Amateur women golfers have the greatest occurrence of injuries in the elbows (35.5%), followed by the low back (27.4%), shoulders (16.1%) and hands and wrists (14.5%) (Metz 1999).

There is no "one way" to swing a golf club. However, there is one way for you, based on your specific body mechanics. The Titleist Performance Institute has consulted leading orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, and golf pro's to come up with the "Big 10". These simple tests help to flush out any mechanical imbalances that might hinder your golf game. Below are a list of the most common faults in a golfers swing....

  • Backswing Sway
  • Downswing Slide
  • Chicken Winging
  • Reverse Spine Angle or Dipping
  • Lower Body Lunge
  • Casting
  • Poor Swing Rotation

Initial Golf Consultation: $175 (2 -sessions and lasts around 90 minutes)

In the first session we will go over the TPI- Big 10. This is a series of 10 physical tests that will be sure to sleuth out any limitations or faults that might be hindering your swing. The second session will be at the driving range where we can see how the body actually moves in the golf swing. After that I will give you an in-depth analysis including any faults & limitations, and ways to address those by either strengthening or stretching certain areas. 

All these cause a loss of power, creating shorter drives, and in some cases injury. Addressing physical limitations through a series of Pilates exercises can help create symmetry and coordination, improve muscular endurance, and increase range of motion. Pilates exercises establish coordinated muscle-firing by retraining core muscles, including deep stabilizers, hip flexors and extensors, hip abductors and adductors, and spinal flexors, extensors and rotators. Both golf and Pilates are mind-body activities that share some of the same basic principles. Golf swing principles are fluid motion, precision, accuracy and power, whereas Pilates principles focus on control, concentration, centering, precision, flow of motion and proper breathing.

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