6-Week Golf Strength Training Program: For muscle groups that are crucial for increasing your driving distance in golf Part 2

6-Week Golf Strength Training Program: For muscle groups that are crucial for increasing your driving distance in golf Part 2

Welcome to your 6-week golf strength training program designed to enhance the crucial muscle groups discussed in our first blog post. This program, integrated with our 4ORE Golf Fitness Training, will help you increase your driving distance and overall performance on the golf course. Before we delve into the program, let's begin with a warm-up routine of dynamic stretches to prepare your body for strength training.

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Post-Game Recovery Nutrition and Hydration: The Key to Bouncing Back Stronger

Post-Game Recovery Nutrition and Hydration: The Key to Bouncing Back Stronger

After the final whistle blows and the game is over, an athlete's work is far from done. Proper post-game recovery nutrition and hydration are the unsung heroes of athletic success. At Atlas Performance Training, we understand that what you do after the game can be just as important as what you do during it. In this blog, we will shine a spotlight on the importance of post-game recovery, discuss the roles of carbohydrates and protein in the process, offer guidance on replenishing fluids and nutrients, and focus on optimal recovery methods after a heavy competition, including rest and relaxation techniques to prepare for the next challenge.

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Can you still Lift heavy weight if you’re overweight?

Can you still Lift heavy weight if you’re overweight?

Being overweight often comes with concerns about joint health, mobility, and the effectiveness of workouts. Many individuals are hesitant to incorporate heavy resistance training into their routine, fearing that it may not be suitable or safe for them.

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How Can Golfers Maintain or Improve Their Flexibility as They Age?

How Can Golfers Maintain or Improve Their Flexibility as They Age?

Aging is a natural process that can impact our physical abilities, including flexibility. Golfers, no matter their age, rely on flexibility for a successful game. In this blog post, we'll discuss how golfers can maintain or improve their flexibility as they age, ensuring they continue to enjoy the sport to its fullest. Our 4OUR Golf Fitness Training Program offers age-appropriate solutions.

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Are There Specific Stretches to Relieve Common Golf-Related Aches and Pains?
"Fitness Center 'Don'ts': Common Mistakes to Avoid"

"Fitness Center 'Don'ts': Common Mistakes to Avoid"

In today's fast-paced world, finding time for exercise can be challenging, especially for busy professionals and remote workers. However, with a well-structured workout plan that fits into your daily routine, achieving your fitness goals is entirely possible. In this blog post, we'll provide a workout schedule tailored for individuals with tight schedules, allowing you to work out 3-5 days a week for 35-45 minutes per session. We'll break down each training session, focusing on resistance training, and provide exercises for the upper body, lower body, and total body workouts.

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Are there specific foods or supplements that can enhance golfers' endurance on the course?

Are there specific foods or supplements that can enhance golfers' endurance on the course?

Endurance is a critical factor in golf, especially during long rounds or multiple consecutive days of play. If you're looking to enhance your endurance on the golf course, your diet can be a game-changer. In this blog post, we'll explore specific foods and supplements that can help golfers improve their endurance. Golfers may struggle with endurance, which can lead to fatigue and decreased performance, particularly during multi-day tournament

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What’s the hardest part of getting fit?

What’s the hardest part of getting fit?

Are you ready to embark on a 90-day journey that will transform your body, boost your fitness level, and elevate your overall health? Atlas Performance Training presents a comprehensive program designed to help you become the hero of your fitness story. This program combines strength/resistance training with cardio sessions for a balanced and effective approach.

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Balanced Nutrition Essentials for Adolescent Athletes: Fueling Excellence
How can nutrition help golfers recover after a strenuous round of golf?

How can nutrition help golfers recover after a strenuous round of golf?

After a challenging round of golf, proper recovery is essential to ensure you're ready for your next game or practice session. Nutrition plays a crucial role in this process. In this blog post, we'll explore how nutrition can help golfers recover effectively after a strenuous round. Golfers may experience muscle fatigue and mental exhaustion after a round, and inadequate recovery can hinder their long-term progress.

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Maintaining a 20-25 Pound Fat Loss: The Role of Consistent Strength Training"

Maintaining a 20-25 Pound Fat Loss: The Role of Consistent Strength Training"

Losing 20-25 pounds of body fat is an incredible accomplishment, but the real challenge lies in maintaining that hard-earned weight loss over the long term. Many individuals find it difficult to sustain their progress without making drastic changes to their diets, often leading to the frustrating cycle of yo-yo dieting. In this blog post, we will explore how a consistent strength training routine can be the key to maintaining significant fat loss without the need for drastic dietary alterations. Let's delve into the problem, its impact on health and performance, and the detailed solution we offer through our Atlas Performance Training (AP Excel) Personal Training Program.

The Problem:

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The Importance of a Comprehensive Golf Fitness Routine Beyond Strength and Flexibility
Great Posture=Long Drives

Great Posture=Long Drives

Having proper posture in your golf swing helps maintain balance, stability and accuracy in the back swing and the downswing. We will take look at several exercises that can help your maintain the muscular strength and endurance to help you maintain this posture for an entire round of golf or a heavy swing day at the driving range.

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Rebuilding Your Body

Rebuilding Your Body

It is important to consult with a physical therapist or certified fitness professional coach with the knowledge of how to work with and train individuals with joint and mobility limitations. These professionals have the experience to develop a personalized exercise plan that focuses on strengthening the muscles (for example the Quadriceps and Hamstrings in regards to the knee ) and opposing joints surrounding the joint that will be replaced (hip and ankle in regards to the knee). This also will help improve joint stability and range of motion, as well as prepare the body for the demands of surgery and rehabilitation, which is very important to help speed up your recovery and help prevent additional complications…

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Why You Don’t Have to Spend a Fortune on Getting Healthy and Fit

Why You Don’t Have to Spend a Fortune on Getting Healthy and Fit

While it would be nice to have a personal trainer on standby for personalized fitness sessions, not everyone can afford this route. However, that's not to say it's your only option to lead a healthy, active lifestyle. There are, of course, other alternatives (many of them free) that you can make use of, too.

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Maintaining Your Health at an Older Age

Maintaining Your Health at an Older Age

As you’ve grown older, you may have noticed that things don't feel the same as they used to. You might not have as much energy, and you might want to change things in your life that don’t benefit you anymore. Don't worry; there are several ways to reinvigorate your health and improve your mood….

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Specific Health and Performance Training For Athletic Development

Specific Health and Performance Training For Athletic Development

All great gains and achievements on the field and or court of play are made possible when athletes chose to dedicate themselves to the process of developing the work ethic needed to achieve their goals in the offseason, and between seasons if they are multi-sport athletes to compete and win in the regular and post-season. The four areas of focus mentioned above should be the foundation of any comprehensive training program. There may be other elements that could be included but for the sake of time, I chose to focus on these 4 elements that have shown results for my clients over the years. Let’s also keep in mind that this process is for the long-term growth and development of the athlete and there is no such thing as a quick and easy path to improving the physical and mental development of a youth athlete. Any youth training program should have the long-term development of the athlete in mind, and address all areas that will improve their physical and mental performance…..

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The 3 Whey's to Get Stronger and Healthy

The 3 Whey's to Get Stronger and Healthy

For one reason it’s relatively expensive, secondly what the body does not use it dumps what leading you to literally and figuratively flush money down the drain, and thirdly it is not sustainable in a realistic fashion, just think about how many different supplements you have tried for a few months over the past several years including the ones in your the kitchen cabinet that have gone unused. The use of supplements can be beneficial to and health and performance training program, whether your goal is to lose weight and improve your body composition, or if you are an athlete who is looking to gain weight, get stronger, faster, in the offseason supplements can give you the added edge you are looking for, but only if your nutrition plans’ foundation is based on consuming whole foods that have the three main macronutrients:….

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The New and Old Smarter Cardio Training of the 21st Century....

The New and Old Smarter Cardio Training of the 21st Century....

The goal of any training program should be to develop these energy systems and “train” them to produce the energy in an efficient manner during practice and competition so that energy is readily available to the muscles during physical activity. All three energy systems are interdependent of each other, but in most situations, one energy system or a combination of two of the three is required to make things happen. This goes into the concept of performance-specific training and how to create training programs that are designed specifically to produce improvements in muscular endurance, cardiovascular fitness, and improvements in speed and power of the individual….

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          Every Push deserves a PULL:          Posterior Chain Development

Every Push deserves a PULL: Posterior Chain Development

Posterior chain development is extremely important for athletic development and for the prevention of injuries. One of the main objectives for posterior development is to make sure there are no strength imbalances between the front which is the anterior the back which is the posterior during physical activity….

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