Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes: Fix Your Swing by Putting Flexibility, Strength, and Stamina in Your Golf Bag

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes: Fix Your Swing by Putting Flexibility, Strength, and Stamina in Your Golf Bag
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Katherine Roberts
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 191
Category/GenreExercise and workout books
Lifestyle and personal style guides
ISBN/Barcode 9781592404568
ClassificationsDewey:796.3523
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Gotham Books
Imprint Gotham Books
Publication Date 4 August 2009
Publication Country United States

Description

The host of the Golf Channel's Swing Fault Solutions helps golfers get fit in a program enhanced by Hank Haney's legendary swing analysis Golfers spend outrageous sums of money every year on new balls, clubs, and swing instruction in an effort to improve their game. But what holds back most amateur golfers isn't their equipment or even their swing; it's their fitness. In Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes, seasoned instructor and fitness expert Katherine Roberts outlines a precise combination of flexibility and strength training that will get any golfer in shape to play their best. Including swing corrections by top-flight instructor Hank Haney, Roberts's program features- * Tests to measure baseline stability and mobility * The ideal warm-up exercises for golfers * Techniques for simultaneously improving posture, balance, and strength * Exercises to obtain yoga-quality levels of Flexibility * Nine of the most common swing flaws, from "coming over the top" to the "chicken wing," with exercises designed by Roberts to overcome the physical deficiencies at the root of the problem * A full workout program for better back health and stronger core muscles Enhanced with one hundred photographs, Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes is an invigorating new approach that solves age-old golfing woes.

Reviews

"My students have improved their game with Katherine's unique and effective program." -Hank Haney "Working with Katherine for the last couple of years has allowed me to compete at a very high level." -Gary McCord, pro golfer and CBS broadcaster "Katherine's program gives you the edge you need to crush it off the tee!" -Sean "The Beast" Fister, long-drive champion