Golf Rx: A 15-Minute-a-Day Core Program for More Yards and Less Pain

Very helpful for warmup, minor injuries, etc.

I'm an active 64-year old grandfather who took up golfing about six years ago. I swim, walk, do strength training and yoga regularly, and carry my clubs when I golf. But when golf season gets into full swing, some of the other activities get left behind. I initially started using these exercises because they do not take a lot of time, but eventually incorporated them into my yoga and golf-specific training program, and they have helped me maintain flexibility. I think the pre- and post-round stretches are quite good, and the chapters on hydration and injury - while not groundbreaking - are excellent reminders on how to take care of your body. Over time this book helped me re-find the discipline to add more core and yoga training for golfing. I also recommend Core Performance Golf by Mark Verstegen and especially Power Yoga by Beryl Bender Birch to help the not-so-young golfers stay flexible and injury-free. There are also many fine golf-specific products such as weighted clubs and swing sticks to help golf fitness.

I bought a book hoping to improve my mental game, believing that my current scoring woes are mental, and bought this book, shown in the same Amazon search, as an afterthought.I was delighted to see that this book has a very helpful chapter about the mental game, but as I read through the other chapters I began to realize that my rising score as I age through my sixties may not be due to my mental game at all. Instead, perhaps I hadn't paid enough attention to my fitness.The author is a medical doctor and sports medicine therapist who begins by illustrating every muscle group in the body, and the spine, then explains which of these is activated by the golf swing, emphasizing those activated by the swing deceleration, where you are most prone to injury.The point of the anatomy lesson is to justify a full range of stretching, strengthening and balance exercises that you can incorporate into a regular exercise routine, warm-up exercises prior to a round, and even short exercises during the round.The fitness routine should improve your game, but equally important and stressed by this author, will substantially reduce the probability of a serious injury, especially to the lower back. Lower back pain is such a serious problem for golfers - especially older golfers - that he has an entire chapter dedicated to the pathology of back injuries and how they might be avoided. He even includes a chapter about how you should respond to a back injury if it happens on the course (which would have been helpful to me when I ended up in the emergency room after an errant drive at The Miami Beach Golf Club two years ago).The number of exercises shown tends to overwhelm. But the author makes it clear that if you are only doing five or six stretching exercises, as I have daily for years, you are ignoring entire muscle groups that impact your performance and are susceptible to injury.The recommended fitness exercises are well illustrated and properly explained.None of the exercises require that you join a fitness center. They can all be done at home with a balance ball, a medicine gall, an exercise stretch cord and an optional weight bar, all of which can be bought on Amazon for under $50.I don't know yet whether GOLF Rx will actually help my score. Maybe I'm just a hopeless hacker. But at least I will be a healthy hacker, thanks to this book.

There is a lot of useful information I'm this book. At this point I wish I had a physical copy to better take notes and bookmarks.I have started to put some of this to good use, but I have only scratched the surface. It answers just about all of my questions and concerns for golf related health and exercises. I appreciate how it is broken down into different levels so you can start where you fit best.I would recommend this to anyone wanting to improve their golf health.

I purchased this book in hopes it would provide incite on golf fitness. It has some good qualities breaks down the swing, and how the body works and contains a section for yoga stretches. there in on order in exercises more all over the place and does not provide a sample of a basic workout to start from. Nothing you can't find on you-tube.

Read part. Hope to finish soon.

I am 78 years old and have just taken up golf at the beginning of summer. I bought the book about a month ago and it has been a tremendous help. Even though I took lessons, this book covers things that you would never get in a golf class. The stretching, core stabilization and other warnings and ideas for prevention and cure are invaluable.Well I am now 80. I followed the books advise for a couple of years, but last winter did not stretch at all. The second time I played (early April) I torqued my S I joint. It is now the last of and I am still in pain.May be out for the season. May have to haved surgeru to fuse the joint. When I get back on my feet, I will sure follow the advice again.

Only 5 star I've ever given. The exercise program is top notch for us old guys. The real bonus, unexpected, is a 12 page analysis of Vijay Singh's swing. Its the simplest break down of the golf swing ever and the tips were very helpful for this golfer, even after 55 years of play...

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Exactly as described and contains golf exercises I was looking for

Book is just what i needed. As you get more Mature you must play more Glof !!!! It worked for me folks

Decent info which I have used and has helped my back

Excellent read.