This year’s 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage’s historic Black course is turning out to be a runaway event with Brooks Koepka putting on an impressive display of power and touch. The modern golfer has arrived and they take fitness more seriously than their predecessors.
These young athletes grew up watching Tiger Woods crush the competition with massive drives and a deft touch. He didn’t look like other golfers. He had broad shoulders, a thin waist, and eventually a muscular physique. For a generation of golfers he made playing golf cool. Pre-Tiger Woods the average pro golfer did not believe in fitness and strength training as a way of bettering their game. They had nicknames like Duffy, Popeye, The Walrus…TV commentators like Nick Faldo explains how it was well known that lifting weights would ruin your golf swing by stiffening you up. This would effect your ability to swing the club smoothly. Boy, have times changed.
Today we see golfers like Brooks, Dustin Johnson and Rory McElroy who have approached golf as a real sport and prepared their body accordingly. The modern golfers grace the covers of Men’s Health magazine, and embrace fitness like no other.
In the modern era of golf pros have tools to analyze their swing like TrackMan, and an army of support staff such as exercise specialists, massage therapists, trainers, Chiropractors, and even psychologists to help keep their nerves calm during those testy five footers. If there is a way to get a competitive edge on your fellow golfer, you can bet they are using it.
Enter GravityFit.
Gravity fit is a state of the art training device that is used to rehabilitate and increase performance of your core musculoskeletal system. Learn more about our Midtown NYC Chiropractor-guided training for GravityFit Thoracic Pro below.
What is GravityFit Thoracic Pro?
The device is a combination of tubing that is devised to give you axial compression at the wrist and elbow while stabilizing the shoulder, and a strategically placed paddle in the back that gives you awareness of your scapula position and helps train thoracic core strength.
Shoulder stability, spinal stability, and dynamic rotation with golfers is what we are attempting to train with the GravityFit Pro. The back bow consists of the spikes in middle, and two knobs on side that allows the golfer to maintain equal pressure on all three points. T spine is the link between your torso and your hands(controlling the club)
The key is to swing your arms in harmony with your torso Leads to a more repetitive stroke Better delivery of the club face More accurate shots
Why use Thoracic Pro?
Strengthening your deep stabilizers of your spine, core, pelvis and shoulders will give you the ability to repeat a consistent, repeatable and powerful golf swing.
A firm, solid and stable base for your golf swing to rotate around and will produce the consistency, feel, and power in a repeatable manner.
How to use Thoracic Pro
- Put on like a backpack
- G is facing towards sky
- Clip tubing and slide towards armpit
- Acts as a t spine stabilizer
- Palm faces away from body and tubing is curled when extending arm Grab grip and make sure elbow is facing up towards sky Do not lock out elbow
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Here at CSCM we offer training in GravityFit not only to maximize your golf swing, but to better enhance your core stability and train your body to be maximally efficient. If this is something that you believe you can benefit from contact our facility for more information.
The Center for Spine Care and Mobility was started in 2000 and has developed into an integrated/multi-disciplinary health care facility. We offer services consisting of chiropractic, physical therapy, acupuncture, massage, and medical services. We are trained in/ have certifications in the following: Active Release Technique, Graston Technique (IASTM), Kinesio taping, Titleist Performance Institute (TPI), Gravity Fit, Dorsavi, MCGill Method, as well as cupping.
We also have a department that specializes in pelvic floor issues with a natural focus on rehabilitation with physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, and acupuncture.
