Complete Conditioning for Golf (Complete Conditioning for Sport S.) [Paperback]

Pete Draovitch (Author), Wayne Westcott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999 | Series: Complete Conditioning for Sport S.

This book will raise players' fitness levels and lower their golf scores. It provides 25 exercises and drills to develop their strength, power, flexibility, and coordination, resulting in a swing that produces greater distance and control with each club.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

“Pete is one of the most knowledgeable people in sports conditioning. This book will enable even the average golfer to improve his or her athletic performance and get their golf swing fit for life.”

David Leadbetter Owner of 18 golf academies worldwide Instructor for Greg Norman and Nick Price

“I encourage everyone to do conditioning drills as part of their program. The different level medicine ball drills help to promote weight transfer and develop rotational speed.”

Butch Harmon

Instructor for Tiger Woods

About the Author

One of the first conditioning experts to begin training golfers like athletes, Pete Draovitch has been personal physical therapist for PGA Tour star Greg Norman since 1993. He also serves as physical therapist and wellness consultant for Martin Memorial Medical Center, as president and CEO of The Bodyguards, Inc., and as spring training physical therapy consultant for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball organization.

An accomplished writer, Draovitch has had articles appear in GOLF Magazine, Muscle Training in Orthopedics and Sports, Physical Therapy, and numerous other publications. He has been featured in golf segments on ESPN, NBC High Performance Golf, and 60 Minutes and in articles in GOLF Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and USA Today.

Draovitch holds a masters degree in physical therapy from the University of Miami and a masters degree in sports medicine/physical education from the University of Delaware. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic Trainers Association, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

With more than 35 years in strength training as an athlete, coach, teacher, professor, researcher, writer, and speaker, Wayne Westcott, PhD, is recognized as a leading authority on fitness. He has served as a strength training consultant for numerous organizations and programs, including Nautilus, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the National Sports Performance Association, the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA), the American Council on Exercise, the YMCA of the USA, and the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation.

He has received three of the highest honors in the fitness profession: the IDEA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the President’s Council Healthy American Fitness Leader Award in 1995, and the YMCA Robers-Gulick Memorial Award in 1998.

Westcott is currently the fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he has carefully studied the physiological responses of adults to various programs of strength exercise. In 1996 he conducted a landmark study of 1,132 subjects showing that men and women over age 50 build strength and develop muscle at the same rate as younger adults. Together with co-author Tom Baechle, he wrote Strength Training Past 50, which was ranked as one of the ten best health and fitness books of 1997.

Westcott has authored ten other books on strength training, including Building Strength and Stamina and Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques. He has published over 300 articles in professional fitness journals and has written a weekly fitness column for one of Boston's largest newspapers since 1986. He has served on the editorial boards of Prevention, Shape, Men's Health, Fitness, Club Industry, American Fitness Quarterly, and Nautilus.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880119861
• ISBN-13: 978-0880119863
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,957,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Eratic - Great in some parts, poor in others, December 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Conditioning for Golf (Complete Conditioning for Sport S.) (Paperback)

Especially good was the section on posture and stance, well thought out. However, the section on weight training exercises was a bunch of nautilus machine stuff, not very creative, and my club doesn't even have that stuff anymore.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly presented, April 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Conditioning for Golf (Complete Conditioning for Sport S.) (Paperback)

This book has some very helpful information in it, but it also has some serious draw-backs.

First, there are many areas in the book where seemingly important concepts are introduced, but then never fully explained or developed in context. For example, there is a section discussing the dichotomy between flexibility and stability as it relates the golf swing, but the authors never seem to relate this important issue to any other material or instruction in the book.

Also, and perhaps most maddeningly, there are a number of exercise descriptions in the book that are incomprehensible or appear to be just plain incorrect. Some of these descriptions don't have accompanying pictures to aid the reader, and often the pictures that do appear with some descriptions are not entirely helpful or descriptive. One apparently important exercise that is part of the centerpeice "Greg Norman's Workout Routine" section in the book is not even described at all...the reader is told to consult with a personal trainer to find out how to do it (PNF "Travoltas"....nobody I've talked to has even heard of such an exercise). Would it have hurt the authors to take a stab at describing it for the benefit of the readers who have plopped down their money to buy this book?

Finally, the book just doesn't seem to be put together in a logical and systematic format. In places, it seems somewhat like a hodge-podge of information.

It's a shame, because I think this book goes beyond the basics by touching on some interesting theories and exercise routines that are critical for golf fitness. I guess the best way to put it is that this book seems "incomplete" and appears hastily put together.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Complete Conditioning for Golf, January 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Conditioning for Golf (Complete Conditioning for Sport S.) (Paperback)

Did an OK job in explaining what exercises to do and how to do them.

Could've done a better job in explaining how the specific muscle groups and exercises for these related to the improvement of the golf swing.

Did a good job in laying a a few sample routines.

Same obligatory chapter on nutritional information as seen in 2 dozen other fitness books.