You’re never too old to improve your golf.
50+ Golfletics Training
If you’re a 50+ year-old golfer struggling on the course due to deconditioning, injury, surgery, or osteoarthritis*, you can still outplay much younger players. Age-related physical limitations (including general aches and pains) hinder your sports performance and your love of the game, but golfletics training can help you play the game as if you were 20 years younger.
First, you must face the facts. If you want to lower your handicap, you need to get in shape. There’s no way around it… and just any workout won’t do. To improve your golf, you need to specifically target the muscles you use on the course.
You’ll still need to practice your drive and short game as your fitness training won’t replace productive practice. However, it will enhance your game and how you feel when you’re playing.
*Osteoarthritis (or ‘wear-and-tear’ arthritis) is a common debilitating ailment in middle-aged adults. Sports injuries that occur during prime athletic years in high school and college, such as ACL tears and meniscus tears in the knee, can cause advanced stages of osteoarthritis in 40- and 50-year-olds.
Other osteoarthritis risk factors include:
- Unhealthy weight (For every pound of body weight, there are approximately four pounds of pressure placed on your knees. This is because your knees are weight-bearing joints that support your body’s weight.)
- Diabetes
- High cholesterol
Your personal workouts will improve your “golfleticism”. That is, you’ll move more athletically through the key elements of your golf swing by combining various physical fitness components.
- Mobility – Mobility (being able to move freely through a full range of motion) improves your functional movement, prevents injuries, and enhances your athletic performance. It requires both good flexibility and the ability to control movement. Lengthening your muscles, tendons, and ligaments will improve your golf game (by increasing the range in your swing), but you’ll also learn how your flexibility correlates with the health of your arteries.
- Stability – Balance and agility training will help prevent serious falls, reduce sports injuries, and improve your swing. When you swing from a stable base, you can swing with more power, consistency, and control. When you’re agile, you can quickly transfer power laterally which directly affects your club head speed. Find out how to achieve a mobile and durable frame, so you’re more stable and nimble on your feet.
- Strength – Your muscles not only lift heavy things, but hold your body erect when standing. Mobility, muscle stabilization, and strength training are essential for injury prevention, stronger bones, and optimal golf performance. You’ll learn how to improve your game, longevity, and everyday living.
- Speed and Power – By improving your mobility, stability, and strength, you’ll generate more power (that is, more force and acceleration) from the ground up as well as prevent early deceleration of your club head. As a result, you’ll increase your driving distance. The better you can move, the faster your club head will move. The faster your club head moves, the farther your ball will travel.
- Control – When you learn to control muscle tension, you can control skilled golf movement patterns, i.e., your swing or putt. A strong musculoskeletal foundation (e.g., hips, torso, and arms) is the key to golf mastery.
“Karen Owoc has been working with me since shortly after my heart surgery (triple bypass in 2015) and again after my total hip replacement. She has now started me on a healthy modified Pilates routine and easy-to-follow eating plan to lose weight and manage my diabetes. She is one of the many great humans – docs, nurses, surgeons, and Karen – that I can credit for keeping me alive. I just shot the best round in years today! Best my body has felt on the course in a long, long time! I still have weight to lose, but I feel great!” ~Bob Schmidt, open-heart surgery survivor
Lengthen Your Drive and Your Life™
Karen Owoc is a certified clinical exercise physiologist and corrective exercise specialist. As a cardiopulmonary physiologist and former competitive athlete, Karen has extensive experience prescribing exercise to clients and patients with medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and other age-related diseases, who want to continue participating in their sport. She is a health educator, best-selling author, the weekly TV health expert on KRON 4 Weekend News, and award-winning writer.
On a mission to keep athletes playing stronger and longer as a strategy to live longer.
- Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, concentration in Biodynamics
- Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist, American College of Sports Medicine
- Certified Corrective Exercise Specialist, American Council on Exercise
- Certified Balance Training Specialist, Zibrio
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Certificate, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Certified Memory Program Specialist, University of California, Los Angeles
- Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, American Council on Exercise
- Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer, American College of Sports Medicine
- Certified Living Strong, Living Well Instructor (cancer), Stanford School of Medicine