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Benefits and Purpose of our Pilates Programs for Golfers
Aids in the prevention of pain and tension to low back, hips, knees and shoulders
Gain more flexibility and range of motion in the hips, shoulders and trunk.
Improves the acquisition and retention of muscle memory for your golf swing by enlivening your kinesthetic sense.
Enables one to remain on swing throughout the golf swing, which will help to eliminate many swing faults and reduce the risk of injury to low back.
Better posture for all sorts of activities and provides the proper alignment of the body to remain on swing plane throughout the golf swing.
Improve accuracy and distance with less effort.
Attain more value and success from golf lessons; and the time and money spent on golf lesson.

Preventing Golf Injuries
Approximately 60% of all amateur golfers experience injuries playing the game (Horowitz 1999), whereas half of all professional golfers are forced to retire because of golf-related injuries . Golf injuries in amateurs are the result of overuse, poor swing mechanics and/or striking the ground with the club.
The most common sites for injury among amateur men are the low back (36%), elbows (32.5%), hands and wrists (21.2%) and shoulders (11%). Amateur women golfers have the greatest occurrence of injuries in the elbows (35.5%), followed by the low back (27.4%), shoulders (16.1%) and hands and wrists (14.5%) .
Although professional golfers tend to have fewer injuries than amateurs, they are not bulletproof. Pros usually sustain injuries in their hands and wrists (29.6% men vs. 44.8% women); low back (25% men vs. 22.4% women); shoulders (11.4% men vs. 7.5% women); and elbows (7.3% men vs. 6% women) (Metz 1999). Because of the many hours that pros play each day, overuse is the culprit for 80% of their injuries; striking the ground and twisting the torso account for the remaining 20% (Metz 1999). Addressing these particular areas of vulnerability should be a crucial part of any golf conditioning program. Specifically, Pilates exercises that target foot and leg alignment, core strength, joint and spinal flexibility, shoulder rotation, and arm, wrist and hand strengthening need to be included in the program because the swing’s momentum depends on the sequential kinetic transference from each body segment into the club. Spinal alignment is vital to proper swing mechanics, since the spine coils and uncoils 100–130 times in one direction over an average 4-hour game.

Why Pilates?
Golf is a game of asymmetry and multidirectional stresses. (Imagine doing an oblique curl to the left 100–130 times with compressive forces eight times your body weight, and you’ll have some sense of the toll that golf places on a player!) Pilates spinal rotation exercises de-rotate this spinal imbalance and realign core muscles. Attention to standing alignment and foot placement stabilizes the base of support, and weight-shifting exercises promote better balance.
When you we creating a Pilates conditioning program for golfers, what’s most important is designing core movements for the individual player’s needs. A Pilates conditioning program that assesses performance, lengthens tight muscles, decreases multijoint tightness and strengthens weaker muscles for power on impact will advance the game, prevent injury and improve general fitness.
Golf is a left-handed game played by a right-handed society. For a right-handed golfer, the left side of the body is considered the target side (closest to the ball), whereas the right side is the nontarget side. Although the golf swing uses almost all the muscles in the body, the muscles on one side of the body may be doing the exact opposite of the muscles on the other side. For a golf conditioning program to be effective, both sides need to be trained for the specific jobs they must accomplish.
For example, in the 1 second it takes to complete the golf swing, the muscles fire in the following pattern for a right-handed golfer.

• gluteals—left side
• adductors—left side
• rectus abdominis—both sides
• latissimus dorsi—right side
• obliques—left to right side
• quadriceps—right side
• pectorals—right side
• hamstrings—left side
• rotator cuff—right side