Category: Warm Up
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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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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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Golf Ball Balance Drill
Looking for a fun balance exercise that you can do while watching TV tonight? This is one of my favorites, and as an added bonus it helps reinforce and challenge your internal/external hip rotation! And yes, I’m listening to Taylor Dayne, it just felt like an 80’s kind of night around here. Hope you all…
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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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Warm Up Wednesday: How to kick off a workout the right way!
The past few months we’ve talked warm up exercises every week, ones that will work on the golf course and some that will get your body ready in the gym….most actually accomplished both! For me though, getting the body ready for activity requires more than just a few exercises. It requires some awesome tunes!! Here…
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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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Warm Up Wednesday: Step, Squat, Extend
Keeping with the theme from Monday Rehab of combining multiple movements, today I’m going to show you a great warm up exercise that does the same! This one focuses on opening up the pelvis and hips, stabilizing the shoulders, thoracic extension, dorsiflexion, and all around deep squat awesomeness! And there are so many ways to…
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Warm up Wednesday: Push it!
A few weeks ago I posted a great glute activation exercise to use as a warm up called the Lateral Wall Push, and today’s is a follow up on that. So bust out your Salt N Pepa and let’s push it real good! The Backward Wall Push A Few Keys: I personally have to stretch…
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Warm Up Wednesday: You have to crawl before you can walk!
Warming up is all about getting the body in the best possible position to crush a workout, round of golf, practice session, Netflix binge watch or even just life! What better way to get the body firing on all cylinders then taking a step back in time to an exercise you did when you were…
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