CardioGolf Slope Fitness Step

Karen Palacios-Jansen, voted one of America's Top 50 Golf-Fitness Coaches, developed the CardioGolf ‘Slope’ Platform to help golfers practice uphill and downhill lies, but it is also a great tool for exercise. You can do a variety of traditional low-impact exercises as well as strength, balance, core and even upper body exercises.

You almost never have a flat lie on the golf course, so it is important to practice your swing on sloping lies to develop feel and stability. The CardioGolf ‘Slope’ Platform is curved like a fairway slope. You can vary the angle you place your foot to practice varies sloping lies. Karen Palacios-Jansen developed the CardioGolf ‘Slope’ Platform to help golfers practice uphill and downhill lies, but it is also a great tool for exercise. You can do a variety of traditional low-impact exercises as well as strength, balance, core and even upper body exercises.

The CardioGolf Slope Platform is ideal for cardiovascular training and lower body exercises and it can be used as a regular gym bench or traditional step as well. The CardioGolf Slope Platform is curved and works similar to a balance ball or BOSU ball also known as a Swiss ball, fit ball or stability ball. The CardioGolf Slope Platform works similar to these training aids, but with the CardioGolf Slope Platform, there is no need to have all the different balls. The CardioGolf Slope Platform will help you work on your core body muscles-back, abdominal and hip muscles.  A primary benefit of exercising on the curved CardioGolf Slope Platform as opposed to exercising directly on a hard flat surface is that the body responds to the instability of the 'slope' to remain balanced, engaging many more muscles to do so. The CardioGolf Slope Platform also doubles as a gym bench or step but it can challenge your body’s balance in ways that a stable bench cannot. It is also easy to carry and store.

Core stabilization is crucial to your overall golf performance. Your core or torso which encompasses your hips, abdominals, back and legs are the stabilizing muscles during a golf swing; these muscles must hold a position while other parts of the body are at work.  The CardioGolf Slope Platform is effective in strengthening your core muscles, as well as increasing your flexibility, range of motion and improving balance.  "In my opinion, it is the single most important golf-specific accessory you will own," says LPGA Teacher of the Year and NASM Certified Personal and Pilates Trainer Karen Palacios-Jansen. The CardioGolf Slope Platform can be used in conjunction with the Shortee Club, dumbbells, medicine balls and resistance bands.