In this article I will discuss neuroscience, mirror neurons, mental rehearsal, and their potential influence on the improvement of golf performance as well as the implications for the larger world of human performance. Mirror neurons are considered a relatively recent development in the field of neuroscience, being discovered in the 1990s. One of the more well known [...]
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Golf Performance Improvement through Core Conditioning and Core Stabilization
Intelligently applied core conditioning and core stabilization has a positive influence on many aspects of your golf game and golf performance including optimum golf club head speed, golf address posture, golf backswing, golf downswing and golf swing follow through among others. The transverse abdominis, also known as the TVA, is one of four muscles that make up the anterior and lateral core [...]
Golf Exercise, Golf Fitness and the Kinetic Chain
This article discusses the kinetic chain and it’s relationship to golf fitness and golf specific exercise. It would be a disservice to write about exercise for golf and golf fitness without discussing and defining the kinetic chain as well distinguishing between open kinetic chain and closed kinetic chain exercises for golf. Let’s start with definitions. [...]
Golf Performance and Neuromuscular Reeducation
A term used in the world of human performance and golf performance is Neuromuscular Reeducation. As it applies to golf, it refers to the concept that your brain and nervous system has developed circuits or neural networks aligned with your habitual golf biomechanics and habitual golf movement patterns. Neuromuscular reeducation comes into play when golfers are looking [...]
What is Optimum Golf Performance?
Let’s break it down into smaller subunits. Definitions: Optimum: the point at which the condition, degree, or amount of something is most favorable. Performance: manner or quality of functioning. Golf: we know what that is. For every aspect of your golf game and every aspect of your life there is a potential state of optimum. [...]
Golf Fitness, Golf Performance and the Shoulder
Most people and many golfers think of the shoulder as one unit and in actuality it is far from that. The shoulder is often called the shoulder complex and that is an accurate descriptive term. Complex. The shoulder has the largest range of motion of any joint or joint complex in the human body. Along [...]
Golf Power Development & Thoracic Spine Mobility
Optimum thoracic / mid back spine health and mobility influences the generation of power and drive distance in golf. The thoracic spine is a series of vertebral segments below the cervical spine and above the lumbar spine. In essence it is your mid back. There are 12 thoracic vertebrae and corresponding intervertebral discs between each [...]
Golf Power Development and Club Head Speed
It is the development of power as it relates to golf that translates into club head speed. Club head speed translate into longer drives. So, when it comes to physical conditioning, specifically for golf what’s involved? First and foremost is the concept that the brain which initiates muscular movement and motor control doesn’t operate within [...]