As a physiotherapist, I spend a lot of my time teaching core exercises to patients. What I would like to discuss today is what not to do as some of my patients are doing old fashioned and sometimes very harmful exercises that they think are strengthening their back or their core.
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Let’s get working on your fitness.
What a Personal Trainer should bring to this party: ”Focus predominantly on increasing the production of angular club head velocity through the development of a player’s ability to generate larger ground reaction forces and speed of movement, in addition to the promotion of safe and efficient deceleration of force through increases in strength."
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Spring is here and the golf courses will be opening shortly. If you have not been training in the off season, it is never too late to start, but you should get going now.
How can a personal trainer help me with my game? How are they going to make my ball get to the hole from the tee easier?
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Last week’s blog discussed the many benefits of lifting weights for women. Lifting weights isn’t the only way to work against resistance so below is a list of different types of resistance training and which ones are better for building mass (hypertrophy), strength or power.
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Most women when they think of fitness tend to think of cardio and they neglect any kind of resistance training to build muscle. This is a mistake as the benefits of doing resistance training are numerous. Here are a few:
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In 1979 POLAR filed its first patent for wireless heart rate measurement and in 1982, launched the first ever wire-free wearable heart rate monitor, changing the way athletes trained forever.
There are a few things that you want to determine when you have a heart rate monitor:
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