Amazing 12 (Building Better Bodies) Programme leader, Phil Earley, explains how his finely tuned and tailored fitness programmes help unlock great improvements in sports activities.
Anyone who participates in the sport of golf knows it can often prove to be mentally and physically frustrating. How often have you cried out give me strength!?’ We shall offer a solution below! As the great old-time golf champion Tommy Armour, aka’ The Silver Scot so succinctly put it: “Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.” As a Sports Performance and Movement Specialist I love that quote, as it should send out the message that golf is far from the lazy man’s sport’ it is often perceived to be. It requires mobility, balance and force production to name a few
but to be effective they must be co-ordinated together. This leads to the question, what do we mean by neural drive?’ Most simply put, it is the method by which the brain connects to our muscles.
Just as a Formula One car has the ability to produce incredible acceleration, stability and extreme deceleration without its driver’, it cannot perform to its potential. Similarly, someone can have great power, strength, mobility and so forth, but without the ability to channel these into co-ordinated movements that match their aims, they can never perform optimally. We have developed a unique training programme for golfers that will dramatically improve their ability to move well throughout their swing, increase grip strength and power output, whilst maintaining stability and absorb extreme deceleration (essential to injury prevention) but more importantly, how to connect it all together to drive control and performance.
So, what is unique about it? We combine a multifaceted approach of: Movement Screening – we use the Functional Movement Screen as used by many professional sports bodies throughout the world; Movement Patterning – we use a system known originally as Primal Move, now Ground Force, which is a scientifically based corrective movement system which I studied at an advanced level under its creator in Hungary in 2012; Russian Performance Kettlebell Training (not to be confused with the ten-a-penny gym kettlebell classes’) – I have certified internationally under four world-leading organisations over the last decade, including in the US and Italy; Our unique and aptly titled Give Me Strength’ Training Protocols which we believe deliver unmatched gains in strength in several key areas for sporting performance in the timeframe.
This is what we call our Neural Driver Programme. We will give you the ability to move better, faster and stronger (in that order) whilst reducing the risk of injury – shoulders, hips, back and elbows being common problems for golfers. We believe it will rapidly become your favourite driver’. If you want to be the top of your game, then we can help you reach your goal.