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Golf Fitness
Every golfer, at every level, can shoot lower scores and play injury-free with the golf-specific programs outlined in Golf Fitness. This book looks at the tips and techniques used by today's top Master's Champion Trevor Immelman's exercise routine, Stuart Appleby on how to develop the "power move," LPGA Tour pro Suzanne Petersen's routine for top performance, Phil Mickelson's trainer Sean Cochran on staying fit in the off-season, and more. Golf Fitness includes exercises to improve the golf swing, details on better warm-ups, whole-body workout routines, and notes on nutrition. The book also looks at the mental game, and how the mind and body can work together for lower scores. Any golfer looking for an edge will find it in Golf Fitness.
230 pages, Paperback
First published July 16, 2011
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July 22, 2025
For a long time, many believed that the game of golf had nothing to do with sports and athleticism. The emergence of Tiger Woods turned that thinking upside down as he showed what a focus on proper fitness and nutrition could give him a massive advantage over the rest of the golf world. Today, all of the pros on the PGA Tour recognize this as an indisputable fact, but it is also becoming apparent that all golfers can benefit from proper physical fitness and nutrition. Golf Fitness brings all of the current knowledge and research together in one concise package that golfers of any ability can understand.
As a point of full disclosure, I took up the game of golf at the age of 5 and went on to earn a golf scholarship to college where I was the team captain for 3 years. So I know a thing or two about the game of golf. As a result, I come into any publication with a certain level of skepticism. However, Palacios-Jansen and the team at Golf Fitness Magazine have hit a preverbal hole-in-one with Golf Fitness.
The book is divided into sections. The first chapters help you evaluate what your swing problems are and what weaknesses may be causing them. It then moves into different types of exercises that can correct the weaknesses and help to provide the functional strength and flexibility to swing the club properly. In addition, there are several workout programs from top professionals, nutritional guidelines and steps to help improve your mental outlook on the golf course as well.
Golf Fitness represents a consolidated approach to improving your golf game, not though gimmicks, but with professionally tested methods based on current scientific research and field tested on the biggest golf tournaments in the world. My only regret about Golf Fitness is that it didn’t exist 25 years ago when it could have helped me most. Even so, it has the information to help all golfers improve their game no matter their age or ability. A must have for any golf enthusiast.
My advance copy of Golf Fitness was provided by the LibraryThing Early Reviewer Program.
As a point of full disclosure, I took up the game of golf at the age of 5 and went on to earn a golf scholarship to college where I was the team captain for 3 years. So I know a thing or two about the game of golf. As a result, I come into any publication with a certain level of skepticism. However, Palacios-Jansen and the team at Golf Fitness Magazine have hit a preverbal hole-in-one with Golf Fitness.
The book is divided into sections. The first chapters help you evaluate what your swing problems are and what weaknesses may be causing them. It then moves into different types of exercises that can correct the weaknesses and help to provide the functional strength and flexibility to swing the club properly. In addition, there are several workout programs from top professionals, nutritional guidelines and steps to help improve your mental outlook on the golf course as well.
Golf Fitness represents a consolidated approach to improving your golf game, not though gimmicks, but with professionally tested methods based on current scientific research and field tested on the biggest golf tournaments in the world. My only regret about Golf Fitness is that it didn’t exist 25 years ago when it could have helped me most. Even so, it has the information to help all golfers improve their game no matter their age or ability. A must have for any golf enthusiast.
My advance copy of Golf Fitness was provided by the LibraryThing Early Reviewer Program.
April 6, 2013
For golf players, this is a wake up call for me. It's a bible for me now.
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