Customer Reviews

Core Performance Golf: The Revolutionary Training and Nutrition Program for Success On and Off the Course

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I am a 24 year old former collegiate golfer, and this book is probably one of the best I have read for golf specific training. The exercises are described well and the workouts are easy to follow. There is also a nutrition section which talks about how to be healthier day to day as well as what to eat pre / during a round. For anyone looking to increase flexibility, strength, power, eat better, prevent injury, this book is a must.

Just a side note, but the movement prep sequence for the workouts / pre round are worth the price of this book itself. I will never workout or play golf again without completing the Movement Prep beforehand, it is the best stretching / warm up routine I have seen.

I highly recommend this book.

This is a great book for exercises you can do at home to help you core muscles and build muscle strength. Easy reading and picture exercise description. Would recommend this for every golfer to help reduce body injury while golfing.

This is a comprehensive plan to build your core, improve your balance and get in shape for golf (and other sports). Mark touches on many aspects of sports preparation including nutrition and stretching. This holistic approach gives you all the keys to succeed and allows you to create a plan that fits you. There is some product promotion, but it doesn't detract from the wealth of information provided.

I bought this book as well as the Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf. I think this book has a better program, particularly when used in conjunction with the Core Performance web site.

I got some good exercises from this book. You can get the Jan or Feb Golf Magazine and see the main exercises in this book for free. The book actually has a program and approach that I think is well laid out.

I think this book should also mention more exercises to really strengthen your core muscles. The focus is overly tilted to flexibility.

This book is like one of those infomercials that advertise a product for about 30 mins. The book is very good in convincing why core workout and nutrition is important to playing golf with success for a long time without injury but fails to tell you what to actually do. The book has about 9 chapters and 8 chapters are highly abstract. The 9th chapter has exercises with pictures but no plan (eg: it does not tell you how many reps. to perform niether tells you how any times a week or when to do them)

The name of the book is completely misleading. You will end up confused without knowing what to do at the end of it all.

This book is very helpful in supplementing and enhancing my golf game. It helped me learn easy to do exercises to keep my core stronger, subtle and pain free.

You won't leave anything on the course if you follow the guidelines in this book.

When you read this book you will find there is nothing left to doubt as to what your golf fitness level is and what you need to do to improve it. Excellent pictures, instructions and more. The author unveils a section called Movement Prep (a great pre-round stretching routine), swing analysis, nutrition and more. I go back to it every off-season and I probably should refer to it more often.

This book is very disappointing. It spends a great deal of the time in self-congratulatory prose about how the authors have incredible insight that others don't into the mechanics of a good golf swing and the best way to condition the body in order to perform that swing.

It misses on both counts. The conditioning part of the book - which takes 3/4 of the book to get to - is so complex and poorly described that it is useless. For a person looking for a doable, useable approach to fitness for golf, this is a total waste of time.

Excellent guidance and illustrations for the key muscle groups required in the golf swing. The section on nutrition is an added plus.