Although a long-time traditional part of the pre-round warm up routine, I suggest that you ditch your weighted golf club or the practice of swinging two clubs together. There are two main issues that I have with this practice: Number One: It doesn’t actually help you swing the club any faster. As a matter of […]
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The REAL golf water hazard isn’t the infamous pond guarding your par three, but rather… DEHYDRATION. Proper nutrition is fundamental to your health and performance on the golf course. Although many golfers may regulate their food, they may pay little attention to their body’s fluid needs. They often misunderstand and, as a result, underplay the
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Developing a strong golf grip is under-appreciated in most golf fitness programs. After all, the last thing you want is a white-knuckle “death grip” on your clubs. However, you actually need to have high-quality, strong muscles in your hands and forearms in order to hold the club lightly, and still have a high degree of control and
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Today I would like to continue reviewing some of the best golf core exercises (and not a crunch in the bunch!). If you missed Part One on this topic, Click Here to find out why crunches are usually not the best exercise for most golfers (at least not for the first few phases of training),
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I’ve gotten a lot of questions lately about all the new golf energy bars and drinks that are flooding the market in the last 12 months. I’ll be doing a complete review of these nutritional supplements in an upcoming post. In the meantime, I thought I’d highlight an older video clip showing a simple (yet
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We talk a lot about flexibility and range of motion because it’s vital for you in regards to your accuracy, power and injury prevention. Stretching is one of the ways to improve your flexibility and range of motion. BUT there are several different golf stretching methods – we use five here at the Institute. And
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A question that I get almost every week is if running or jogging is a good form of exercise for golf fitness. The answer is… absolutely not! Not only will long, slow running decrease your swing speed and kill your distance, it will most likely lead to injury if you do it for years on
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What are the best golf core exercises? Probably NOT the ones you think! Traditionally, the sit-up and the crunch (a variation of the sit-up) have been the mainstay of core conditioning for everyone from the out-of-shape couch potato to elite athletes to the military physical entrance testing. Now there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong with
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Is there anything more morally debilitating, hauntingly humiliating, than a bad case of the yips? The answer is NO. There’s a small group of people who say they don’t exist. Of course it was a small group of people than found OJ Simpson “not guilty”. I’m not certain it’s the same group… but I have
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Swiss Ball workouts for golf have many functional advantages over the machines you will find in most commercial gyms. Also known as a “Physio-Ball”, Swiss Balls were originally used in the rehabilitative setting throughout Europe. Paul Chek was among the first in the US to incorporate them into healthy and athletic populations. There are a
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