Particularly in multi-day events, the day you wind down after a round can be very important. Most of the time, you’ve been playing a round for 5-6 hours in the heat and you might be a little dehydrated or hungry. So how do you recover from this to be at your best performance the next…
Pre-round routines can be a very confusing topic. It’s one of the harder topics for high level players to master, so you can only imagine how difficult it can be for amateur players. If you think about preparing for tests in school or meetings at work, preparation for any kind of performance is important and…
Foot and ankle pain are not the most common injuries in the game of golf, but they do affect a large amount of golfers. Today, we’ll be addressing these issues and explain the mechanics behind what’s happening, as well as show you some swing faults you may be making that might make the issue worse. …
When it comes to golf performance optimization, there are core elements that you really want to make sure to incorporate. The main components you should be seeing in your golf performance plan are mobility, activation, speed/power, strength, conditioning, and core. Mobility includes things like foam rolling, thoracic spine openers, and others. Sometimes it may be…
At different points in our lives, our bodies are primed to handle different tasks. When you’re first born, you just need to learn to survive, but as you mature, your body starts to enter phases where it learns language especially quickly, or builds muscle very efficiently. People at different times in their lives have different…
We talk about foam rolling and myofascial work a lot here at Par4Success and in this article we’re going to go into a little bit on why. A lot of people just beginning a program might find these kinds of exercises very uncomfortable and wonder why they’re doing them, but in this case the phrase…
We get asked this question a lot. “I started working out and I’m sore,” or “I worked out two days ago and I’m still sore.” There is both good soreness and bad soreness. It’s very normal for the second day after a workout to be worse than the first. The number one way to prevent…
Mobility is a big problem for many golfers, particularly older athletes. Today we’re going to spend a little time explaining some simple but important ways to increase your mobility. The first step is myofascial work – foam rolling. We have a lot of resources about myofascial work here at Par4Success, and if you’ve read many…
Rest is a topic that many athletes don’t fully understand. We get a lot of questions about how much rest is appropriate for different kinds of workouts. There are also the people under the misconception that unless you’re dripping with sweat and can barely move, your workout wasn’t good enough. While there are times when…
Last week we talked about power and speed training through jumping and sprinting exercises, and this week we’re continuing that discussion with medicine balls, kettlebells, dumbbells, and barbells. At the low end of the spectrum of intensity, we’ll try to use medicine balls and exercises that are lower impact (i.e. less jumping). Particularly when working…