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Golf Strength and Conditioning and Personal Training for Golfers in and around Stamford
What is golf strength and conditioning?
Golf strength and conditioning is best thought of as golf-focussed personal training.
Instead of coaching your golf swing, the focus is on improving the physical qualities that underpin golf strength, mobility, power, balance and endurance while also delivering the long-term health benefits you would expect from working with a personal trainer.
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This is a personal training and strength and conditioning service for golfers, designed to improve your golf performance while also improving your health and quality of life.
Training is delivered primarily online, with local support available when appropriate.
Strength and conditioning is now a normal part of golf at every level, not just the professional game. Improving how you move, how strong you are, and how well you tolerate the demands of golf allows you to play better and keep playing for longer.
Add yards to your drive.
Add years to your life.
Add life to your years.
Read on to find out more about how strength and conditioning will help you. Alternatively, if you are already aware of the benefits strength and conditioning gives and wish to sign up for coaching, you can find out more about the programme by pressing the button below.
How S&C can benefit your game
There has been a lot of attention and research in recent years investigating how strength and conditioning helps golfers. The benefits include but are not limited to:
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Improved carry distance
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Better club control
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Reduced back pain
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Improved recovery between rounds
Please continue reading to understand why strength and conditioning is important for golf, or click the button below to learn more about the programme.
Why S&C is important
Whilst golf is considered a low-impact sport, the amount of physical stress the body has to cope with during a round is extremely high.
It's reported that up to 2,000 swings can be performed though a single professional tournament and forces experienced by the spine during a swing can exceed eight times body weight.
That is a lot of force, a lot of times.
With this, it is no surprise that low back issues in golf can account for up to 35% of all injuries, along with up to 82% of all problems being reported as 'overuse injuries'.
A dedicated strength and conditioning programme can help you build a stronger body to better withstand the physical stresses of golf (and life), helping prevent you experiencing muscle fatigue and overuse injuries.
Please continue reading to discover the performance benefits strength and conditioning will provide. You may also click the button to learn more about the programme.
How S&C can benefit performance
Research has evidenced that a dedicated golf strength and conditioning programme can increase distance off the tee by as much 20 yards. Regular training will also lead to improved club control on the downswing, better ball striking and and a more consistent swing.
These factors can all lead to 1.6-2.2 shots reduction per 18 holes for recreational players.
This primarily works by increasing the power generated during the swing, as well as players having greater control over how their bodies move during the movement.
Please continue reading to look at a real world example of how strength and conditioning has impacted golf. Alternatively, click the button to learn more about the programme.
A real world example
Tiger Woods, arguably the sport’s greatest ever player, is well known for his dedication to physical training. He believed it would give him both the physical and mental edge over his opponents, once saying, "I let other people treat it like a hobby. It would be asinine for someone to not work out and then go play football. It doesn't make sense for golf, either."
The effect of his training was on full display during his record breaking maiden win at the 1997 Masters. Tiger averaged 25-yard greater tee shot than anyone else across the competition. He finished the tournament with a record 12-shot lead to become the youngest ever player to win the highly prestigious competition, at 21 years old.
His ability to hit the ball further than anyone else prompted a makeover at Augusta in an attempt to compensate for this, lengthening all par five holes.
His attitude to training has also influenced the new generation of golfers to become more active in physical training.
Hit the ball far, go under par.
Please continue reading to explore how strength and conditioning will impact you, or click the button to learn more about the programme.
How S&C can benefit you
It should not be breaking news in this age that exercise is good for you, and the benefits you will recieve from strength and conditioning will extend beyond what you achieve in golf.
At Stamford Sports Performance, we believe that movement is medicine. This is something which has been extensively researched and evidenced: exercise can prevent, manage and even reverse many health conditions, both mental and physical.
It also helps prevent age related, life altering conditions such as dementia and frailty, along with prevention and management of other age related conditions, and even reduce the likelihood of illness related death.
This is the meaning behind the phrase, 'Add years to your life. Add life to your years.'
We believe it is our obligation to reach as many people we can with our knowledge and skillset to, not just improve their golf performance, but help people lead better, more active, more enjoyable lives, with their loved ones, for as long as they can.
For as long as you can.