Golf Fitness Training
Golf Training in the Off-Season
By Shawn M. Ramsey

Golf Training in the Off-Season

Today, for anyone who wants their golf game to either remain consistent or even improve, there's little time to stop golf training. Too many golfers end up 'hibernating' as a result of less course time in the fall season. Short (one month), medium (three month) and long term goals (six month) will increase the efficacy of your golf training regimen. Assisted by certified golf training professionals, you'll find motivation and the appropriate components to a productive golf training program.
With so many golfers asking, "What should an off-season golf training program encompass," it's understandable we've outlined the fundamentals, with key points from a golf training specialist below. Let the golf training professional in each category (Golf Fitness Professional, Golf Instructional Professional, Golf Medical Professional) direct you through the process in their discipline. Here are the basics of an off-season Golf Training Program.

Golf Professional Lesson/Instruction

Now is the time to make some wholesale changes in your drive. Now is the time to fine tune the putter. Are you able to do such wholesale and granular approaches? Sure. It's a matter of time management and goal setting, along with the Off-Season Three Club Lesson golf training rule. With attention/ documentation to the measured progression of form, distance and/or accuracy, focus on golf lesson/ instructional training of two clubs, for a period of three months. After that period, add another club, while continuing 'maintenance' golf lesson training (a term typically associated with in-season fitness training) with your initial two clubs. With this simple formula, at the end of the six month window, you'll have mastered to your abilities to swing three clubs, which could mean the difference between three bogeys or three pars in your round.

Golf Fitness Training

More and more, golfers want to golf or work at skills needed to improve their game year round. The top professional golfers of the modern era are extremely strong, flexible, and fit. They work out year-round to maintain their "fitness edge". The casual or scratch golfer is looking for the same experience.
Golf fitness training factors like strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, nutrition, stability, power, vision and posture all influence the body's mechanics.
A golf fitness training physical screening process should measure a golfer's ability to generate and transfer speed and determine the most efficient energy transfer throughout the body. The golf fitness training program should then isolate any physical limitations, correlate these findings to the golfer's swing technique and result in a custom-conditioning program.

Golf Medical Therapy Training

The most extreme are of golf training is a medical procedure to correct a chronic or acute issue. True story: I once trained a golf pro from a private country club who had been diagnosed with a grade 2 bilateral inguinal hernia, forgot to put it on his medical history form and when discovered, announced he was fine to train and was waiting until the end of the season for the medical procedure. If you're a golf medical professional, I'm sure you've got your fair share of bizarre golf stories. To that point, even as a golf lesson pro, never assume you're instructing a perfectly healthy individual.
And now back to the golf medical professional therapy, although it's the most drastic off-season process, it's very common. Joint replacements, extensive MRI testing, nuclear die testing and more can all be scheduled with both the procedure and recover period, as overseen by a certified golf medical professional, with relative accuracy.