Category: Stability
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Aloha from Maui!
It’s been a long day of travel that required an enormous amount of patience and deep breathes. But we made it to paradise and get to spend the next 5 days here playing in University of Hawaii’s Tournament at the Kapalua Bay Course! In honor of my return to the Hawaiian Islands for the second…
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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: 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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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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Monday Rehab: To Bosu or not to Bosu, that is the question!
Today we take a look at the Bosu, the half physio ball, half platform training tool that has lead to beauties such as this…… I still remember when it first I showed up on the scene. Everyone went crazy for it! Who needed to do a traditional step aerobics class when you could do the…
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Sweatpants and Stability
Here is a great stability exercise guaranteed to get you shaking! It is a variation on the Bird Dog, and one that I have been working on diligently. The amazing Josh Lewis introduced me to this exercise last month to address some of my core instability and shoulder stability issues. Typically I would do a…
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Monday Rehab: Bird Dog Edition
Welcome to the Monday Rehab, this is where every week I will be posting an exercise that is notorious for being performed wrong and show you how to fix it! Last week I showed you how to clean up those pesky mountain climbers, so this week I wanted to share one of my favorite exercises,…
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A different way to climb
I will cut right to it, I hate mountain climbers. Always have, always will. I feel like they were solely created by some evil trainer many moons ago who wanted to have another method to torture their clients with just in case wall sits and burpees weren’t getting the job done. So suddenly they became…
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