The Golf Strength Coach Complete Fitness Program…

…a complete program for turning you into a golf athlete!

From the Desk of Scott Cole

Rockville, MD

Dear Golfer,

I have two questions for you…

First… what is the best way to increase your golf swing speed, aside from improving your golf swing?

Second… what is the best way to ensure you can still play decent golf into your 80s?

The answer is…

Legitimate Strength Training

What is legitimate strength training?

Legitimate strength training involves training compound movements that mimic natural human movement patterns, with barbells.

In other words, legitimate strength training does not involve those little orange dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands, or yoga.

Yes, you can get a little stronger with that stuff, but you can’t get legitimately strong without training with barbells.

If you are looking for easy training, you’ve come to the wrong place.

If you are looking for a golf fitness program that will turn you into a legitimate golf athlete, then keep reading.

Who I am and why you should listen to me.

I’m a 58 year old former competitive golfer, who once upon a time played Division I college golf and made it through to sectional qualifying for the U.S. Open.

So, not a great competitive golfer, but decent enough to not completely embarrass myself.

Later on in life, I taught golf as a side hustle, and still offer coaching on occasion.

To learn how to really teach, I traveled to Texas in 2009 and 2010 to attend Hank Haney’s Teach the Teacher seminars, and I joined his Hank Haney Pro training program.

So, I know a little bit about the game of golf.

What do I know about strength and fitness?

As a kid, I also played baseball and swam competitively through high school.

As an adult, I trained in the art of Pai Lum Kung Fu for eight years and attained a rank of 1st higher level (1st degree blackbelt).

Over the last few years, I’ve learned quite a bit about strength training.

When the Covid pandemic began, my wife and I had just purchased a new home here in Rockville, Maryland in a neighborhood with few garages.  Luckily, this house had one and I immediately purchased my home gym equipment, before it all tripled in price.

I put together a power rack, and once that was done, I figured I’d get under the bar and push out a few bench presses.

I put 135 pounds (2 45 pound olympic plates on a 45 pound bar) in the rack and thought I’d crank out 10 reps easy, because that was my old warm-up weight, and I was still doing some push ups now and then.

Nope… only managed 4 measly reps.  I couldn’t believe it.

So I got to training with a couple programs I had learned years prior… my old college gym program and a program from the book “Body For Life” by Bill Phillips.

This helped me get some of my old strength back, but I was still nowhere near my old weights from my early 40s.

It was then I read The Barbell Prescription by Jonathon Sullivan and Andy Baker.  Life changer.

This book got me to focus on the compound movements… the squat, deadlift, bench press and overhead press, along with proper programming for strength.

I am now stronger than I’ve ever been in my life.  While these numbers can still go up significantly, here are my 5 rep maximums (5RM) for each of the lifts…

• Squat – 250 pounds
• Deadlift – 325 pounds
• Bench Press – 197.5 pounds
• Overhead Press – 137.5 pounds

Not bad for an old dude, and this is with a few starts and stops in my training due to a few different issues with wear and tear.

I don’t play much golf these days.  In fact, I haven’t played a round of golf in years, as I have had other priorities.

However, I still pull the clubs out and head to the range or hit into a net in my backyard.

My swing speed still tops 110 mph (according to my Rapsodo launch monitor) without much trouble, and I even topped out at 114 mph recently.

I would venture to guess with some legitimate practice, 117-118 mph is attainable.

Of course, I can’t hit the center of the clubface just yet, but that’s another issue!

I truly believe I am able to still give it a good rip because of my strength gains, which is why I am here.

The Best Golf Fitness Program

First of all, let me tell you about my philosophy in regard to fitness training for golf.

We keep our fitness training separate from our golf training.

In other words, we don’t perform exercises in the gym that are meant to mimic the golf swing in any way, shape or form.

Instead, we train for improved overall strength, flexibility, mobility and conditioning in the gym or outdoors.

We then train to improve our golf performance at the golf course and driving range.

This is what is known as the Two Factor Approach to sports performance.

Strength Training

As mentioned, the best way to train for strength is to train compound movements that are based upon natural human movement patterns.

The best exercises for improving your overall strength are…

• The squat
• The deadlift
• The bench press
• The overhead press

These exercises combine to hit virtually every muscle group.

And, because they can be loaded with significant weight, they are the most efficient and effective exercises for improving your strength.

Now, if you are over 50, and have some old nagging injuries, you may be reluctant to embrace this idea.

There is a ton of information spewed out by the medical community and personal training community that it is not a good idea to train these exercises.

Those opinions are borne out of ignorance.

We don’t simply tell a client to bend over and pick up a barbell loaded with 300 pounds.

We start by learning the movement with a comfortable weight that still requires a little bit of effort, and then we gradually add weight to the bar.

Some people will start with very low weight, or even a body weight movement with less range of motion.

Others who have trained before will start at a higher weight.

The fact is there is only a tiny percentage of the population that can’t squat or deadlift in one form or another.

If you are a golfer, you are not among those people.

That gentleman above is coached by Jonathon Sullivan and was 92 years old in this photo.  He didn’t start training until he was 86.  No excuses!

I personally have been dealing with a low back issue for 20 years and I have increased my strength considerably with those exercises.

The back issue won’t ever go away, but it is less likely to hobble me as I age.

Flexibility and Mobility

The focus of most golf fitness programs is mainly on flexibility and mobility.

In the last twenty years ago, the golf fitness industry developed to help golf instructors who struggled to help their students improve their swings.

The idea was that physical issues prevent many golfers from making needed swing changes.

In other words, the golf fitness industry was created to bail out instructors who couldn’t improve their students.

Therefore, instructors and trainers offer “physical assessments” and then a host of exercises to try and help these golfers improve their mobility.

Here’s my take…

Strength training plus a flexibility program consisting of static stretching and dynamic movements will do wonders for your mobility.

This program will provide you with all you need to improve your functional abilities.

Conditioning

Many professional golfers include conditioning work in their fitness program to give them more energy during their practice sessions, and so they don’t run out of gas on the golf course.

Legitimate strength training and mobility work will help improve your conditioning.

However, we also add a cardio component to the program help turn you into a legitimate golf athlete!

Presentation

This fitness program is presented through a combination of pdf files that you can download, and video that helps you understand how to perform various exercises.

You’ll also have email support in case you have any questions with the training.

What’s Included

As mentioned, this golf fitness program covers strength training, flexibility and mobility training, and conditioning.

There is also information regarding diet and nutrition as well.

The strength training program takes you all the way through what us trainers refer to as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP).

It takes about six months of regular, consistent training to get through the NLP, where you will make significant gains in strength.

After that, you can choose to go in different directions with your training, and those are explained in the program.

Through the NLP, you will be provided with information regarding the adjustments you will need to make along the way to allow you to continue to make regular progress.

You will be provided video content that explains in detail how to perform each of the main lifts, and then you will be provided additional video for a variety of assistance exercises to enhance your training.

In regard to the other parts of the program, you’ll gain a full understanding of what you’ll want to do to gain greater mobility and improve your conditioning.

Bonuses

Given that I am also a part-time golf coach, I would be remiss if I didn’t provide you with solid information on how to improve your game as your physical abilities improve.

As such, the following bonuses are included in this program…

• How To Become A Scratch Golfer ebook… all the information you need on the fundamentals of the swing, how to fix certain swing faults, how to practice, etc.
• Putting Mastery ebook
• Short Game Mastery ebook
• Mental Game ebook

The Scratch Golfer ebook itself contains over 90 pages of foundational knowledge of the game of golf.

The Putting Mastery and Short Game Mastery ebooks provide you primarily with ways to practice these skills.

The Mental Game ebook contains excellent information I obtained while enrolled in the Hank Haney Instructor program years ago.

This stuff will all help you become a better golfer!

Why should a golfer train for strength?

Well, none other than Bryson DeChambeau, a physics major in college, put this formula to use…

Power = Force x Velocity

Force is effectively strength… your ability to produce force against resistance.  Velocity is how fast you can move your body.

Bryson could see the direction the game was going, and given his scientific knowledge, he thought he’d put it to use.

Still blessed with the benefit of youth, which gives him greater potential for body speed, he dove headfirst into strength training, and at his peak, gained over 40 pounds of muscle.

His average driver swing speed before he undertook this project was about 119 mph… pretty damn good.

With his strength training and speed training, he took his top swing speed to over 135 mph, which put him in a class with the best long driver hitters in the game.

In fact, he competed in two World Long Drive competitions.  The first year, he made it to the quarterfinals, and that was a massive accomplishment.

However, the next year, he finished 2nd!

Virtually unheard of for a legitimate tour player to compete at that level.

Since then, he has lost some of the weight to give more attention to his overall game.  And, as we all know, he just won his second U.S. Open.

Now, if you are an older golfer like me, you’ve lost body speed.  We lose velocity faster than we lose strength.

We can still be really strong into our 70s, but you won’t see anyone over 40 competing at the Olympics in the 100 meter dash.

However, we can make up for some of that lost speed with increased strength.  And, if we have time, we can train for increased speed as well.

Improved Flexibility and Mobility

With improved flexibility and mobility, you can increase the range of motion in your golf swing.

While it is not necessary to have a John Daly like swing to hit it far (see Jon Rahm), a longer swing gives you greater potential for higher swing speed.

My golf fitness program provides you with a complete program for increasing flexibility and mobility through a combination of static and dynamic stretching along with some yoga.

Conditioning

Tiger Woods at one time got up and ran 4 miles every morning, and would often run again at night after a long day of practice.

In 2008, he won the U.S. Open playing virtually on a shredded left knee, and he had to do it in an 18 hole playoff.

This is what conditioning can do for you…

Better practice sessions on the driving range, and fewer loose shots at the end of a round due to fatigue.

Mental Game

What did players such as Tiger, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and even Lee Trevino have in common?

They were unbreakable mentally.

Nicklaus, who won more majors than anyone, actually finished second in a major to Trevino on four separate occasions.

Trevino embraced the challenge.

The Mental Game is what really separates the elite from the rest.

Players with strength between the ears will often beat players of superior talent.

The bonus Mental Game pdf file will teach you new approaches to dealing with the demons on the golf course, and that will help you avoid throwing shots away.

Golf Knowledge

My other three golf related pdf files will provide you with additional knowledge to help you improve all areas of your game.

I recommend you read them before you head out for your next round, particularly the Putting Mastery and Short Game Mastery files.

I can almost guarantee you will shave strokes off your score in your upcoming rounds just by learning how to practice.

The Bottom Line

This entire program will help you not only improve your potential as a golfer, by helping you gain greater swing speed, you will learn how to improve your entire game.

Oh, and by the way… if you follow this program entirely, you will LOOK a hell of a lot better as well!

Your Investment

Before I get to the “what’s it gonna cost me” part of this page, let me remind you of everything you get with this training…

A strength training program that will help you improve your strength significantly, with consistent training of course, over the next six months.  If you are starting out with a 1 rep maximum deadlift of 200 pounds, in six months, with no setbacks, that deadlift will easily be over 300 pounds.  I say that with utmost confidence.

Additionally, you will have a mobility program that will not only improve your flexibility, but will also help with some of those nagging aches and pains.

You’ll get in better shape overall with a conditioning program that can even help you shed unwanted pounds when you apply all this training with our diet and nutrition guide.

Lastly, you get the four bonus ebooks to help with your golf game.

I would also remind you that to get all of this training and knowledge in person through personal trainers and golf instructors would cost you thousands of dollars and hours of instruction.

Yet, your investment is only $297.

To get started, click on the Paypal Button to the right and you’ll have access to the program in minutes.