The Golfer's Guide to Pilates

Step-by-Step Exercises to Strengthen Your Game

Monica Clyde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2006
Ulysses Press (Verlag)
978-1-56975-538-9 (ISBN)

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Shows golfers why training with Pilates will lower their score. This work describes why Pilates is the best training for golf because of its focus on abdominal strengthening and control as well as mind/body focus.

Brings together 2 popular areas-Pilates books and golf books-while offers a totally unique book

Offers a complete Pilates training program with step-by-step exercise tailored speciffically for golfers

Written by a Pilates and Golf Biomechanics expert who developed the program while working with actual golfers

Monica Clyde combines a golf conditioning background with 26 years as a student and teacher of movement therapy. After training in therapeutic massage and becoming an ACE certified Personal Trainer, Monica certified as a Pilates Instructor in 1995 with Madeline Black and Jean Sullivan through PhysicalMind Institute. Monica completed her apparatus certification with Nora St. John at Turning Point Studios. At the C.H.E.K. Institute Monica certified as a Golf Biomechanics Instructor. For the past 4 years her Pilates practice has focused on golf clients. Monica is also an avid golfer! Monica is on the faculty of the ACE Academy. She lives in Northern California.

I. INTRO
Fundamentals of Pilates (essentially, everything readers need to know before they start doing Pilates) and the link between Pilates training and improved golf game.

II. PROGRAMS
A number of different workouts to cover a variety of things, from improving individual strokes to addressing muscle imbalance to reducing injury. These include "Hip Rotation Workout," "Shoulder Release Workout," and "Putt Improvement Workout." A separate workout for each stroke. "Low Back Strengthening Workout," "Spine Stretch Series," etc. These workouts refer readers to the actual exercises illustrated in Part III.

III. EXERCISES
Presents fundamental warm-up exercises then all the exercises in step-by-step photo detail, including different levels within each exercise.

IV. ON THE GREEN
Here you would present pre-game warm-ups and stretches to do when they're on the green.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.5.2006
Verlagsort	Berkeley, CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 230 mm
Gewicht	269 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding ► Golf
ISBN-10	1-56975-538-8 / 1569755388
ISBN-13	978-1-56975-538-9 / 9781569755389
Zustand	Neuware