The Performance Lab

💧 ⛳️ 💪🏻 New blog on hydration for golf performance out now. Read from in link in bio or copy the link below.

TLDR

Hydration is often an afterthought for golfers, with emerging evidence showing the negative impacts of even mild dehydration on many areas of golf such as distance, accuracy and putting. To optimize performance and recovery, aim to consume 16oz of fluid gradually in the 2-4h pre-round, 4oz per hole, and enough to sufficiently replace lost fluid post round. Consuming carbohydrate and/or caffeine based fluids may provide additional benefits.

https://smartgolffitness.com/hydration-for-golf-performance/

Sneak peak 👀 🧐 ⛳️ Goswami, Shepherd, Langdown, Knight and Maguire (2024). Coming soon in the International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

👀 🧐 ⛳️ Immensely proud to share some provisional data from the Goswami, Shepherd, Langdown, Knight and Maguire (2024) paper ‘Acute effects of different warm-up protocols on junior golfers’ drive performance‘ that was showcased at the World Scientific Congress of Golf at Loughborough University this week. This was 2 years in making! Full paper under review.

A junior golfer and interested in 8 weeks of free S&C for golf?

Now recruiting for our latest research project in junior golfers starting in late April 2023 🤓 ⛳️ 💪🏻

The Impact of Strength and Conditioning (S&C) in Junior Golfers.

If you are aged 12-18 and have a handicap below 18 without experience of strength and conditioning we would like to hear from you via your parent/Guardian.

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Does your golf coach promote you to undertake S&C activities? 💪🏻🏌️‍♂️⛳️

They evidence suggests they should and perhaps do, as per this research breakdown of Shaw et al. (2022). Although my personal experience of this is a conflict of interest, in that a coach may think time and money spent on S&C is best spent with them, and there is an argument for that. Although it is often especially beneficial for their higher calibre players and the additional health benefits or engaging in strength and power training are mostly overlooked.

Let me know what you think…

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Great afternoon with James Atthey and MC Golf Academy collecting research data and coaching golf specific warm-ups with some emerging elite level youth golfers.

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A great time working with James Atthey’s elite youth golfers in the Tiger Club at Stokesley Golf Range this evening.

More info coming soon…

Off season. Dark nights. Something different than the range.

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Warm Ups and Golf Driving Performance 💪🏻🏌️‍♂️⛳️🔥

Swipe ⬅️ for a new applied research breakdown from Langdown et al. (2019) looking at the acute effects of warm ups on driving performance.

What does your warm up look like? Comment below and tag anyone you think would benefit.

Research and Coffee 🤓☕️
Golf warm-ups ⛳️

Deep dived into this great paper from Ehlert & Wilson (2019) related to golf warm-ups, injury and performance.

Content and some big plans underway related to this area of research.