#29 Golf Strong with Ben Shear

This week's podcast episode features Ben Shear! Ben is a performance trainer for numerous PGA Touring Professionals, Fitness Advisor to Golf Digest Magazine, and former host of Sirius XM's "Golfer's Edge" on PGA Tour Radio. Through the years, he has worked with more than 20 PGA Touring Professionals (including a former World #1 golfer and a Major Champion), collegiate golf teams, competitive amateurs, nationally-recognized Junior golfers, and recreational golfers. He founded Athletic Edge Training Facility in 2000 and created the Ben Shear Golf Science and Fitness program. 

 

In this podcast we discuss:

• Intro - Who is Ben Shear
• PGA Tour Pros vs. Amateur golfers (strength/mobility perspective)…@2:46
• The fastest way to hit the ball farther… @7:33
• What should be the primary focus of golfers looking to improve their mobility… @10:54
• Training different golf demographics (35 vs 65 years old)… @13:35
• Screening and assessment process for Pro and Amateur golfers… @17:45
• The most common injuries in golf and methods to mitigate them… @21:24
• Are trainers ‘over correcting’ their golf clients?… @27:14
• How important is breath-work in golf?… @27:56
• Current trends in PGA Pro training… @29:50
• Key differences between a Hockey Swing and a Golf Swing… @39:15
• The biggest challenge of programming for the pro golfer… @43:16
• Tiger Woods in his prime… @55:24
• Stick Mobility for Golf… @56:56
• The pursuit of speed and power - Shortening careers on tour?… @1:03:36
• Neal and Ben reveal their picks for the Masters Tournament… @1:11:43

 

More from Ben: 

https://www.instagram.com/bensheargolf/

https://www.instagram.com/ben.shear/

https://www.bensheargolf.com

https://www.athleticedge.net/