Promote Your Golf Health
Recently I contacted Lynda Lippin, a certified Pilates Teacher Trainer, Personal Trainer and Reiki Master, after seeing a post from her on Facebook to a golfer friend of mine discussing a couple of Pilates programs that were being used successfully by golfers. I asked her if I could get her neck [...]
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There have been articles posted on Ladies on the Tee on fitness, stretching, yoga and chiropractic care. How about one that addresses the pain immediately following strenuous exercise, on or off the course?
Over the years I have found ice to be my closest friend when it comes to soothing sore muscles or problem joint areas. [...]
Continuing with my golf fitness quest I turned to Dee Tidwell of www.golffitnessguys.com. He has written some fitness articles for our blog which provided some great exercises and stretches – complete with pictures. It wasn’t until I received an email from Dee that discussed the prevalence of hip tightness, shoulder and back pain with golfers [...]
My Quest to be Pain-Free!
Recently I wrote about the benefits of playing golf if you have arthritis and the role a chiropractor can play in keeping you ‘in the game’. Now we need to address another very key element for playing better golf. That is golf fitness.
Playing better golf is subject to individual interpretation. For [...]
Should You Use It?
We recently discussed playing golf with arthritis. Trying to maintain your body to allow for a long ‘golf life’ is a quest and challenge faced by most ‘older’ golfers. (I’ll let you define the word ‘older’). As we age we get stiffer in the joints, become less flexible [...]
After spending last week at the 25th Anniversary Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic LPGA Tournament in Sylvania, OH, I was amazed at what I witnessed. This was much more than an ordinary women’s golf tournament. Nine out of the top ten LPGA players were there to compete. It was sad that reigning champion Paula Creamer [...]
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Golf and Arthritis
Good news! If you’re an arthritis sufferer, you don’t have to give up your golf game! In fact, playing golf can add strength and mobility to your body overall and improve your range of motion.
Research shows that one of the best treatments for osteoarthritis is exercise. It can improve mood and outlook, decrease [...]
With golfers worldwide finally embracing a more comprehensive approach to training for golf, it’s now time to bring in the elements of solid golf nutrition.
It goes without saying that proper nutrition is important for all of us. But, if you are serious about shaving valuable strokes off your scorecard, you need to make some tough [...]
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This is not going to be a rant about social equality and how it relates to the golf world. I am a simple golf fitness instructor and my concerns are purely biomechanical. It is well understood that women are built differently than men. When talking about muscle fiber volume, the normal numbers thrown around are: [...]
Continue reading about Why Golf is Unfair to Women – and what YOU can do about it.
What I have found with training women over the years is the need and benefit of training strength, stability and subsequently power. Women often times lack the strength and stability, or essentially the power needed to hit the golf ball an adequate distance. We know that the one major difference between men and [...]
