Aim of Mike Wright's Golf Pilates
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Mike Wright’s Golf Pilates gives you the tools to exercise and move correctly, incorporating Pilates principles so that you can work out safely and effectively. Many Pilates exercises feel gentle on the body; this can be deceptive because subtle alterations in strength, flexibility, and alignment occur with each Pilates workout that will have profound and lasting results. We are instilling new positive movement patterns in the body with each exercise. Pilates allows you to condition the body without punishing it; it’s a gentler way to tone and strengthen without jarring your joints or bulking up.
In order to get the skeletal system in its correct alignment, the spine, shoulder girdle, pelvis, and joints need greater mobilization. Muscles that are tense or weak can easily succumb to injury, a muscle that is shorter or longer than its ideal length cannot function effectively, and weak muscles can result in instability at the joint resulting in slow reflexes. An important –– and often overlooked –– benefit of Pilates is improved muscle recruitment. Muscles work better in concert. When joints and muscles work in their most favorable positions, the body is balanced and able to work with the greatest efficiency and less stress on the joints. When the wrong muscles do the wrong job, faulty recruitment patterns become habitual. Until your posture and muscles are re-patterned, workouts will just reinforce bad movement patterns. Pilates trains these muscles so they work effectively and efficiently and impacts the skeleton by bringing the bones back into their correct alignment, increasing stability, mobilizing joints, and enhancing movement patterns. This is systematic neuromuscular re-education. When your body movement utilizes correct biomechanics in proper alignment with sound muscle recruitment patterns (the correct firing order), you will increase the efficacy of your workout and eliminate the risk of injury both during the workout, while practicing, and during play on the golf course, as well as in daily life activities.
Our goal is to assist you in discovering correct postural alignment, reeducate your body in how to move well, prevent injury, stretch and strengthen to improve your golf swing and all activities. Pilates works the whole body and enhances the performance of everyday movements and specialized ones so that any motion becomes more efficient; Pilates is a functional system of training. It will change your life and the quality of your life for the future.
The beauty of Pilates is that it benefits people in diverse ways – toning the belly, streamlining the waist, elongating the muscles, recovering from injury, improving balance and coordination, reducing pain and stiffness, improving posture and alignment, quieting the mind and soothing the nervous system, increasing circulation and oxygen uptake, developing a healthy, supple spine, and reducing stress on joints and wear & tear on ligaments, tendons, and cartilage.
These Golf Pilates exercises will:
- Test your performance of the basic movements required for a good golf swing.
- Provide specific Pilates exercises to address weaknesses in your swing or postural imbalances.
- Give you proven methods that you can use at home to improve specific body weaknesses or tightness.
- Teach you what causes and how to prevent injury.
- Create a plan for a pre-and-post-game regimen.
- Provide warm ups and exercises used during play to keep you flexible and fluid during your golf game.
PRECAUTIONS
Avoid working out if:
• you are not feeling well
• you have recently eaten a big meal (wait at least one hour)
• you have been drinking alcohol
• you have pain from an injury
• you are undergoing medical treatment or taking drugs
While Pilates is a benevolent and safe form of exercise, you should confer with your medical practitioner before beginning any exercise program.
WATCH POINTS FOR POSTURE
On a daily basis consciously avoid
• arching neck when sitting or lying
• hyperextending (over arching) lumbar spine
• forward head
• hunching shoulders, creating tension in neck and constricting breathing
• slumping (rounded shoulders, tipped pelvis)
• hip displacement (standing with weight shifted into one leg)
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