Golf Specific Fitness Overview

Golf Improvement encompasses more than just technique development, a good mental approach, and properly fitted equipment. The body plays a large role in the range of motion, stability, strength, and power factors to produce optimal efficiency, accuracy, control and distance in your golf swing.

• Are you satisfied with your distance off the tee?
• Do you have difficulty making a full turn?
• Do you suffer from pain, stiffness or soreness in your arms, legs and back after a round of golf?
• Do you enjoy your round of golf?
• Have you taken golf lessons without improving?

If you answered “YES” to one or more of the above questions, then it’s time to take care of your most important golf equipment.Your Body. Most golfers will not hesitate to spend several hundred dollars on a new club or thousands for a new set, when what they really need to do is commit to a Golf Swing and Golf Specific Fitness Improvement Program.

Since the emergence of Tiger Woods as the dominant force in golf, the role of fitness in the sport has been revolutionized.

The Golf Academy by The Sports Club/LA has merged some of the world’s finest golf instructors with some of the world’s most accomplished fitness trainers. The Sports Club/LA is recognized as the finest sports and fitness complex in the world. Our unwavering commitment to feature the most innovative health and fitness programs, state-of-the art training equipment and the most elite corps of private trainers, Pilates and Gyrotonic instructors ever assembled, will exhilarate and inspire you. Now with the addition of The Sports Club/LA Golf Specific Fitness division SCLA is leading the new order in Golf Swing Training by providing the finest Golf Specific Fitness programs in the world.

The Sports Club/LA corps of elite private trainers is renowned for achieving life-changing results for our members. We are proud to feature our Advantage Trainers, experienced leaders who have distinguished themselves with a superior level of education, expertise and proficiency. Certified in Golf Fitness through The Titleist Performance Institute and degreed in exercise science and physiology, your TPI Advantage Trainer will evaluate your health history, lifestyle and goals, to design a personalized Golf Specific Fitness Program to meet your individual needs. With hundreds of hours logged in training and development and thousands of hours logged with members, our TPI Advantage Trainers are elite professionals from within the fitness industry, and can truly be deemed, the best.

Make no mistake, golf is a physical activity and demands a respectable level of fitness to be played at peak performance levels. As an athletic activity golf requires strength, flexibility, muscular endurance and cardiovascular endurance. Golfers who suffer from weak muscular strength and a limited range of motion will be at a severe disadvantage in their ability to swing the club efficiently, thus affecting their potential to play their best.

We all understand that strength is essential to hitting the ball far. When your muscles have the necessary mobility to control the swinging motion of the golf club, this relaxed power takes on a quality of effortlessness, improving reflexes and coordination. Flexibility works in conjunction with strength in that it allows the body to achieve positions that can maximize that developed muscular power and strength. Muscular endurance relates directly to fatigue. To play great golf we must be as strong walking down the 18th fairway as we were down the first fairway. Through repetition of light workloads over an extended period of time, our muscular endurance can improve, enabling us to finish our round strong. Cardiovascular endurance may seem the least important of the four elements. However, if the heart is not pumping sufficient amounts of blood to the muscles, fatigue sets in. Poor cardiovascular conditioning can also affect our thinking process, leading to bad decisions in the latter part of our round.

If the body is underpowered, has poor flexibility or simply has parts that just don’t function well because of fatigue, the results will be neither consistent nor efficient. Golfers have finally come to understand the importance of being physically fit and are being rewarded for their efforts. That’s what Golf Fitness Training is about.

As the saying goes, you are only as good as your weakest link. People typically develop patterns around those weak links, acquiring poor habits and improper mechanics. Through our 3D analysis and golf specific physical evaluation designed by TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) we can determine the weak link and start you on a program to improvement. We design a workout program with specific exercise progressions for you. This program is designed to improve your golf mobility, flexibility and/or stability. This allows you to break inefficient movement patterns and improve your ability to make swing corrections. The Sports Club/LA Golf Specific Fitness Program, powered by The Golf Academy, guarantees measurable gains in strength, flexibility, balance and endurance.

Golfer Benefits:

• Increased club head speed, power, distance and control
• Improved flexibility (minimum 50% improvement within 4 to 6 weeks)
• Better posture, balance, and alignment
• Increased strength, endurance, cardio and flexibility
• Core, isolated and functional strength.

Many underlying swing faults are caused from Physical Limitations. Below is a list of the 12 most common swing faults and the related physical limitation that may cause these swing faults.