Pilates For Golfers
A program designed to help improve your golf game while reducing your risk of golf related injuries. Improve your swing by strengthening your lateral hips, core, and glutes and also by increasing your thoracic spinal mobility to induce maximum, efficient torque.
Props Needed: None. All of the workouts in this series can be done using only your own bodyweight. For the couple videos that involve a Pilates ball, you can simply substitute with a firm, small pillow if you do not have a ball.
Level: All levels
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Shoulder CARS
CARS = Controlled Articular Rotations - An upper body exercise widely used by physical therapists to improve shoulder mobility by strengthening through a full range of motion. You can use this video to practice or use it as a reference to come back to after a few weeks or months to check your pro...
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Thoracic Mobility
Work on improving your thoracic mobility while strengthening essential angles of the trunk including flexion, extension, and rotation.
Props Needed: Pilates ball
Level: All levels
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Pilates For Golfers
This is a full body workout designed specifically with golfers in mind to maximize the potential of your game while also preventing pain and potential injuries. It was created in collaboration with PXG and Anna Rawson (professional golfer and PXG ambassador).
Props Needed: None
Level: All levels
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Bodyweight Arms
Target the muscles of the upper body including the biceps, triceps, lats, and mid back using only your own body weight.
Props Needed: None
Level: All levels
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Bodyweight Glutes
Glute focused, neutral spine friendly series that uses only body weight or add ankle weights to intensify it.
Props Needed: Optional 1-3lb ankle weights
Level: Intermediate
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Full Body No Props
Start by opening up the hips and waking up the glutes and pelvic floor. Then, ignite the trunk and waist through a plank series. Finish with inner and outer thigh work.
Props Needed: None
Level: Intermediate
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Oblique Quickie
An efficient core series to tighten the side body.
Props Needed: A Pilates ball
Level: Intermediate
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Swimming For Better Posture
Train the muscles of the mid back to counterbalance a forward rounded spine. Use it as an add on to a core series or when you only have a few minutes and want to upright your posture.
Props Needed: None
Level: 1 intermediate
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Plank Progressions
A full body series using only your own bodyweight to build up to a truly functional plank with perfect form.
Props Needed: None
Level: 1 Intermediate
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Posture Perfector
Focus on the posture muscles of the posterior chain in this upper body focused series.
Props Needed: 1-3 lb hand/wrist weights
Level: 1 Intermediate
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Quickie Full Body No Equipment
Quick, efficient, full body workout finishing with a cardio burst.
Props Needed: None
Level: 1 Intermediate
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Quickie Standing Upper Body
An efficient upper body series you can do anywhere with just a wall- especially great for resetting your posture from sitting for too long.
Props Needed: A wall
Level: 1 Intermediate
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Full Body With A Chair
A 30 minute, full body workout that leaves no muscle behind while using one of the most common household objects, a chair.
Props Needed: A chair
Level: 1 Intermediate
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Sunday - 9/28 - Neck And Shoulder Release
Release tension around the shoulder girdle and neck.
Props Needed: A small massage ball such as a lacrosse ball, tennis ball, or yoga tune up ball.
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Hip Release And Stretch
Release tension around the hips and glutes and finish with some active stretching.
Props Needed: A small massage ball such as a lacrosse ball, tennis ball, or yoga tune up ball.
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Wall Mobility
The best "warm up" to mobilize and prime your joints and muscles for any sport or activity. This is also a great series after being sedentary when you need to rehydrate your tissue.
Props Needed: A wall
Level: All levels
