Get Stronger, Play Longer: Strength Training to Age Gracefully on the Golf Course

Jared Cave, PT, DPT

Owner, MyPhysio PT and Golf Performance

I'm guessing you're here because that 150 yard marker just keeps getting further and further away. Or maybe you've already had to scoot up a teebox despite your best efforts because you saw your scores going up. You're not alone - data (shown below from Arccos) shows that on average, golfers lose about a yard per year after they turn 40.

You'll lose a yard per year after you turn 40, unless you do something to slow that down.

You get what you get and you don't throw a fit...

That is, unless you do something about it.

Some amount of change is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we just give up. We've found ways to combat many of life's changes - anti-aging creams, reading glasses, hearing aids... and strength training. That's why you're here, right?

But Why?

Strength training can help you and your golf game age gracefully and improve your driving distance, or drastically slow it's decline. Then you can play golf longer, have the energy to play with your kids and grandkids, take care of your own lawn...

Or you can shut down after 9 holes with an aching back, hire to get your lawn done, or at worst end up with some kind of avoidable orthopedic surgery.

Only 30% of the adult population in the U.S. does any regular form of strength training and it shows up in the form of arthritic pain, osteoporosis, frailty, falls in old age...

If any of these is true, you could probably use some work:

• It's gotten difficult to get up from the floor or the couch (This is a big one)

• You can't stand on one leg for 30 seconds with your eyes opened

• Your muscles and joints regularly ache

• You're hesitant to go work on the yard because you can't confidently lift the bag of fertilizer

Getting Started with Strength Training

You don't have to be perfect. You just have to get started. Here's what you do:

1. Call your doctor or fill out a PAR-Q to make sure it's safe for you to start.

2. Go to this page and read the presentation on designing your workout

3. Get a gym membership or some small equipment and get started

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You owe it to yourself, your golfing buddies, and your family to get up and make a positive change for yourself.

If you need more help - to work around an old injury, or because you don't feel confident in your ability to start safely - I can help you with that.

Schedule a call and let's talk about it.

Tell Mother Nature and Father Time to stuff it...

GET STRONGER, PLAY LONGER!