Category: Activation
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Warm Up Wednesday: The Uneven Farmer Carry
Sometimes preparing the body for activity is not always about mobility. Yes, leg swings and arm circles are great, but what about stoking the stability fire??? Today I bring you an exercise that most of us do in our daily life without even realizing it. The purpose, to engage and challenge those stabilizers! The Farmer…
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If you want to accelerate, you better be able to put on the brakes!
Today’s post is all about developing the ability to create power, and control it! An essential part of the golf swing is the transfer of energy. You have to create speed and through a process of one part of the body slowing down, it transfers the speed to another part of your body. That means…
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Monday Rehab: How to Fix Tiger Woods
Yes, I know how to fix Tiger and get him back to playing his best golf ever!………well, not really, but I figured I would jump on the bandwagon today since everyone else seems to know what he needs to do! Tiger has been the subject of much talk today on Golf Channel, Good Morning America…
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A little Sunday warm up
One of my favorite ways to get my body ready to move in a hurry is this little number! Lunge Reach and Pushup Step back in to an awesome reverse lunge focusing on hip/knee alignment, keeping the pelvis in a posterior tilt to actively stretch the hip flexors and keeping your chest tall Reach for…
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Warm Up Wednesday: Golfletica Flow
I have become a huge fan of doing a flow series as part of my warm up over the past few years. The beauty of a flow is that you can connect so many movements together and the end result is a body that feels activated and ready for anything. Here are a few of…
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Monday Rehab: Weighted Golf Swings
Last week I included weighted or resisted golf swings as one of my top 5 dumbest exercises ever……but really this one could be the dumbest exercise of all time! Why you ask? Well, this opens up Pandora’s box into the world of sports specific training. If you want to find a subject that gets me…
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Stop, drop and stretch those hip flexors!
The past 3 days are a complete blur right now as I sit on my flight home from Phoenix. Early mornings, long days and a lot of standing. My back started making some noise the second we got to the airport, a clear sign that my darn hip flexors were unhappy with me. Yes, the…
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Looking for a post workout challenge? Try this!
There is nothing I love more than finding fun and creative ways to finish a workout. It’s the perfect time to get some mental and physical work done, the kind that will translate when you’re on the 16th hole of a tournament and the nervous system is taxed. So at the end of a workout,…
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Warm Up Wednesday: Challenge your balance!
Is it Friday yet? I just sat down for the first time in three days if I don’t count the hour and a half commute home on Monday night. This week has been crazy between new golfers coming in, problem solving knee pain, helping some of my junior golfers plan out their workout schedules around…
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