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Grip Essentials

Nobody’s hands are the same, so you grip might not be the same as your fellow player’s, but that doesn’t mean it is wrong. How you join your hands together is up to you.

There are three basic grip choices to find one that best suits you. Use whatever grip feels comfortable to you. Most importantly, use the grip that helps you square the clubface at impact with the least effort. Experiment with your grip by hitting balls with the different grips to see what works best.

You’ve already felt the power of the CardioGolf training system firsthand. Now, you can get the most out of your system and get fitter than ever with a year’s worth of CardioGolf-specific content.

Introducing our CardioGolf Complete Video Access Subscription for just $39.95.

The Complete Video Access Subscription gives you one year of access to:

  • CardioGolf-Shape Your Swing, Trim Your Score-Seasonal Training Series
  • CardioGolf Total Body Conditioning Series-The Golf Body Series Featuring Karen Jansen and Meghan Trainor
  • CardioGolf-Dan Jansen HIIT Workout Series
  • Plus-New Workouts added bi-monthly

The Complete Access Video Subscription-

The are seven physical performance factors that are crucial to every golf-conditioning program: posture, balance, mobility, stability (the combination of strength and balance), power, coordination, and endurance. You may not have time to train like a professional golfer or an elite athlete, but by simply adding a few swing drills, HIIT Workouts or the Total Body Conditioning, you can dramatically improve your game.

CardioGolf™ Total Body Workout Video Series

In this fun, easy to follow series of videos featuring CardioGolf creator Karen Palacios-Jansen, certified personal trainer and former professional golfer Meghan Trainor, and Olympic Gold Medalist Dan Jansen, you will learn routines to help you warm up before play or practice and routines to help you improve your strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and swing technique. Simply follow along using the CardioGolf™ Slope and Shortee Club to Shape Your Swing and Trim Your Score!

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Pre-Round Warm-Up Routine Tutorial
  • Express Pre-Round Warm-Up Routine
  • HIIT Muscular Endurance Workout
  • Upper Body Workout
  • Lower Body Workout
  • Post-Round Stretch
  • Groove Your Swing Workout
  • Slope Workout
  • CardioGolf™ Total Body Workout Video Series Bonus

CardioGolf Complete Video Access Subscription for just $39.95. 

CardioGolf™ In-Season Training Video Series

Practicing at the range is the best way to improve your game, but if you have a swing fault, adding more repetitions will cause you to ingrain those troublesome issues into your muscle memory. CardioGolf, is a program designed to give you a battery of exercises to improve your body movement and swing technique.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • In-Season Workout to Stay Strong and Swing Freely
  • CardioGolf Slope and Shortee Club Tutorial
  • Swing Drills
  • Pre-Round Warm-Up Routine to Smooth Out Your Swing
  • Pre-Round Warm Up Routine
  • CardioGolf™ In-Season Training Video Series Bonus

CardioGolf Complete Video Access Subscription for just $39.95. 

CardioGolf™ Off-Season Training Video Series

Off-Season is the perfect time to get as strong as possible. Weight training and the use of a stability ball will be your main tools. Don’t be afraid to hit the weights hard and heavy – the stronger you can get, the better. This is also the best time to improve your balance, because stability is the combination of strength and balance.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Basic Golf Fitness Screen
  • Flexibility Routine
  • Endurance Workout
  • Core Workout
  • Flexibility Routine
  • CardioGolf™ Off-Season Training Video Series Bonus

CardioGolf Complete Video Access Subscription for just $39.95. 

Dan Jansen HIIT Workout Series

Olympic Gold Medalist and 8-time world record holder in speed skating, Dan Jansen will show you how he uses the CardioGolf Slope to do HIIT workout routines. HIIT-High Intensity Interval Training alternates between high intensity exercise and short periods of rest, then repeats the sequence or circuit. HIIT-High Intensity Interval Training alternates between high intensity exercise and short periods of rest, then repeats the sequence or circuit.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Lower Body HIIT Workout
  • Upper Body HIIT Workout
  • Core HIIT Workout
  • Endurance HIIT Workout
  • Dan Jansen HIIT Workout Series Bonus

CardioGolf Complete Video Access Subscription for just $39.95. 

Feed Your Game-

Would you change the way you eat if you knew certain foods could help you play better golf?

Managing your food intake, hydration levels and adding certain nutrients to your diet can not only help you concentrate and focus more on the golf course, but it can also help you keep your heartbeat steady as you make an important shot or putt, help your muscles fire faster for more power, help you fight fatigue so you can play and practice longer and even help you keep your cool after a bad shot. More importantly good nutrition is good for your overall health and well-being.Order Siete Grain-Free Tortilla Chips Here-

Energize Your Game-

We recommend every workout session (and every round of golf you play) starts here with the warm-up routine.

A proper warm-up will help loosen stiff muscles and joints, making it easier to swing the golf club more effectively and efficiently. It is the bridge between sitting all day at a desk or in the car, and the golf course where you are in motion much more frequently. It is a transition most effective when performed gradually and mindfully.

 

Visit Cardiogolf.com to download the FREE Cardiogolf Pre-Round Warm Up Routine E-Book.

For many of us, we used to be able to hop out of the car, go straight to the first tee and rip a drive down the middle of the fairway. Now by skipping a warm-up before a round of golf may mean it takes us 4 or 5 holes before you loosen up and gain your form and by that time your score may already be ruined. Here is a quick and easy pre-round warm-up exercise to help you avoid those big numbers on the scorecard.

Watch Karen Palacios-Jansen and Christina Ricci, LPGA Teaching Professionals, demonstrate this exercise.

The point of a warm up is to elevate your heart rate to get your blood flowing to warm muscles so they are loose and supple to make it is easier to swing. You can do this warm-up at your house before your round of golf, if you don’t have a long drive to the golf course or on the driving range. Don’t be embarrassed to do the routine, it couldn’t more humiliating than topping your drive off the first tee.

There are many ways to warm-up like jogging, doing jumping jacks or even taking practice swings. In Cardiogolf routines, that only takes 5 to 10 minutes, I chose 5 to 8 exercises that target golf-specific muscles.

Visit Cardiogolf.com to download the FREE Cardiogolf Pre-Round Warm Up Routine E-Book.

Essentials for Your Game-

Learn and review the most important swing fundamentals, review key swing positions and improve on-course strategy.

Whenever you take lessons and try to make a swing change, it is important to remember a few points that will help you with the transition.

  1. Practice the swing change, but try not to overdo the new move or motions that your pro suggests.  What happens to a lot of people after a golf lesson, it that they exaggerate the new move and that may throw off  tempo and timing.  You may actually hit the ball worse after a golf lesson.
  2. Be patient and rehearse the move without hitting a ball for several sessions until you are comfortable with the new move.  Rehearsing the new move without hitting a ball will help ingrain the new move into your swing and then it will feel  more comfortable and natural when you actually hit balls.
  3. Finally, try not to stress out about your score for the first few rounds after a lesson,  it may take several weeks before you own the new motion.

Front Hand Placement on Grip-How is Yours?

“The best golf psychologist in the world is a square clubface”.

Ben Hogan

Everything you do before you swing determines how well your shot will turn out. You need to review the basics no matter what level golfer you are. Only once you have a solid and consistent set up can you develop other areas of your game like consistency and power.

Your grip may be the most important factor in hitting a solid shot. If your grip is incorrect, then you usually have to make compensations in your swing to get the ball to go where you want it.

Here is a way to check your front hand position to make sure club face will be square.

GRIP CHECK
  1. Hold the club just with your front hand. Lift the club off the ground and extend your arm out so that the club is parallel to the ground.
  2. Notice the clubface position. If your thumb is placed correctly on the grip correctly, then the leading edge of the clubface will stay square.
  3. If your front thumb is on the club incorrectly, in a weak position, then the leading edge will fan open.
  4. Adjust your thumb until you can extend your front arm and the leading edge stays square.

Optimize Your Swing-

Cardiogolf Fitness System, available at Cardiogolf.com, is a series of swing drills and exercises to help you improve your swing technique and get a great workout at the same time.

Making practice swings instead of hitting balls is a better way to improve your swing technique.  If you are trying to learn the swing or make a swing change, rehearsing the move without hitting a ball will assure that you are actually doing the correct move.  Repeating the motion that you want to achieve will help ingrain the move into your real swing.

In this drill, watch Karen and Christina Ricci from Golf Survival Guides, demonstrate how taking practice swings with just your front arm only can help you improve your swing technique and develop strength in your upper body.

Vitalize Your Game-

Get your Heart Pumping and your Golf Form in Shape with the Cardiogolf Fitness System…No golf ball required!

In Cardiogolf class, I use various fitness props to do exercises and swing drills including the Shortee Training Club and Slope a specialized fitness step for golf.

Golf-Fitness

Improve your golf and fitness with these great overall body exercise routines that will help improve your strength, flexibility and coordination, but will also help golf because it patterns the same motion in the golf swing of loading and unloading.

Swing Technique

Making practice swings will not only tone your muscle and burn some calories, but the act of swinging over and over again can help you improve your swing technique and improve muscular endurance.

The Cardiogolf Speed Progression Drill will help you rehearse swing positions and increase clubhead speed. The idea here is to start off doing slow motion swings, working on swing positions and then gradually increasing the pace until you build up to full speed.

Indoor Practice

In my opinion, daily practice is the key to success towards any goal.  Making 10 practice swings a day or exercising  for 5 minutes everyday will get you playing better and in better shape than  exercising or practicing for two or three hours once a week. First of all, it is always hard to find big chunks of time to do massive workouts or beat balls on the driving range.  Secondly, the long workouts or practice sessions usually lead to fatigued swings, injuries and ingrained bad habits.

There is something to be said about the momentum of taking small daily steps towards a goal that is cumulatively better than taking big steps with less frequency.

Use the Cardiogolf ‘Shortee’ Club to practice everyday.  If you don’t have room to swing a regular golf indoors or you can’t make it to the golf course or driving range, use the Cardiogolf ‘Shortee’ Club to practice anywhere and at anytime.

Fitness

I developed the Cardiogolf ‘Slope’ 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. Stay tuned for more information.

Watch how 8-time world record holder and gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen use the Cardiogolf  ‘Slope’ to do upper body and core exercises.

 

Karen Palacios-Jansen is a LPGA Class A Teaching Professional and a Certified Personal Trainer specializing in Golf Fitness and has been voted as one of America’s  “Top 50 Golf-Fitness Professionals” by Golf Digest Magazine and  “Top 50 Instructor” by LPGA.  Karen received the prestigious LPGA National Teacher of the Year award in 2008.

LPGA Teaching and Course ProfessionalsKaren Palacios-Jansen is the creator of Cardiogolf, a golf-fitness program available at Cardiogolf.com

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