Better Golf With Fitness

Mobility and Stability- The Foundation at Five Iron

At Five Iron Fitness,  working on Mobility and Stability is at the foundation of everything we do.  Our programming model is based off of Strength Coach Michael Boyle's "Joint by Joint Approach to Training".  Once we have a good foundation of Mobility and Stability, we can build Strength and Power on top of it.

Dave Phillips and Lance Gill, from TPI, do a great job explaining this approach and why it's important in this video.

Expansion at Five Iron Fitness

Since I haven't updated this blog in a while on what Five Iron Fitness is looking like these days, I figured this was a good time since I am in the middle of an expansion.  I am adding another 950 sq. ft. for some physical therapy, massage and chiropractic services, as well as adding a break room and a bigger office.  Everything should be complete sometime in the next few weeks and I am hoping to add the new services as soon as possible.

 Warm Up Area 

 

 Strength and Power Room

 

Med Ball Wall

 

 Group Fitness Room

 

Hitting Bay

 

Putting Green

 

 Expansion- PT Area 

 Massage Room buildout

 

 Massage Room

New office door is to the right

 

I will be doing a full video tour soon so you can get a better idea of how the facility is laid out.

Putting- How Are Your Visualization Skills?

I have been putting a lot on the Five Iron putting green and I feel like my stroke has improved a lot.  We play a form of "Golf Billiards" (the pic is from a 9-ball game we were playing) to make it fun and to make sure that there is a little pressure trying to make each putt.

My alignment has improved a lot and one thing I usually do is use a line on the ball to make sure my stroke is on the money.  This might be the wrong approach for me.   I came acrosss this interesting video form Dave Phillips and Greg Rose discussing visualization skills and an easy test to see how yours are.

 

Dave Phillips on Rory McIlroy- US Open Slow Motion Swing

I know this is a few months old but I keep showing it to so many Five Iron Fitness clients that I wanted to make sure I had it on the blog.

I love the lateral "bump" before he starts to rotate. We work on this a lot at Five Iron first in the True Stretch cage, then with some baseball swings and finally with the club.

Updated Golf Room

OK, so this is pretty much the finished portion of the expanded area at Five Iron Fitness.  

 

Posture Stick Drill

Here is a great drill from Scarsdale Golf Club PGA Teaching Professional Paul Kenney to help you get in the right address position.

Let There Be Light... (and rugs)

Just for some perspective, here is the first shot 2 weeks ago of the Five IronFitness expansion:

Lights were put up on Wednesday,

and the rug down today!

The golf mat and net (from the pic below) will be moved into this area (above). The wall on the left, beyond the column is where the net will go.

The other half that you are looking at will be for some other fitness activities, or another golf pro teaching in that area for the winter.

All of this opens up the the big room for easier transition to group classes.

I will keep you posted with the final pics when we set everything up next week.

Five Iron Fitness Expansion

Wow, it's been a while since I last posted.  I have been super busy with preparing for the golf off-season here in New York since that's when I get much busier.  One of the things I have in the works at Five Iron Fitness is an expansion of 800 sq ft. 

This will allow me to have a little more freedom with classes since I am moving the golf instruction operations into the new room.  I will also have more room to store all of the new toys I have for my Junior Program.

Here are some pics of the progress over a few days:

I am hoping they will be handing over the space by the end of next week as they only need to paint, put some lights up and get the rug down.  (that can also take another 3 weeks so who knows!)

I will keep you posted on the progress.

Baseball for Golf?

Because I have a lot of clients that have problems rotating their hips and getting over to the left side (righty golfers), I have started to incorporate baseball swings to get them to really understand how the hips need to move.  Check out this video.

Five Iron Fitness- Almost Done

I am getting down to the wire on my new studio, it's just about ready. Here is the latest update.