Fitness & Injury

Mobility, strength and the three injuries golf reliably produces.

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Golf Fitness: Mobility First, Then Strength

Most golf workouts are a general gym session with a medicine ball bolted on. What golf actually asks for is range at three specific joints and the strength to control it.

11 min read

Beginner

Golf Stretches: Move Before, Hold After

Golfers are told to stretch, rarely told when, and almost never told that the injury-prevention case for holding a stretch is a lot thinner than it sounds.

10 min read

Beginner

Golfer's Elbow: What It Is and When to See a Doctor

Elbow pain after a heavy week of practice is common in golf and easy to guess wrong about. What an article can usefully do is describe the condition and tell you when to stop guessing.

10 min read

Beginner

Is Golf Good Exercise? What the Research Shows

Golf spends a lot of time defending itself as a sport. As exercise it has a better case than most golfers realise, and it rests almost entirely on one decision made in the car park.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf and Back Pain: When to Get It Looked At

Back pain is the most frequently reported complaint in golf, and it is also the one most often played through. The first question is not which stretch to do. It is whether this needs a professional.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf Exercises for Seniors: Rotation and Stability

Training advice aimed at older golfers usually assumes decline and prescribes gentleness. The data says something more specific, and more useful, about what actually goes and what does not.

12 min read

Intermediate

Golf Strength Training: What the Evidence Supports

Most golf gym programmes are built from what looks like a golf swing rather than from what the research associates with speed. Those two lists are not the same list.

12 min read