4D GOLF, by the 4D Personal Trainer Putney SW15
THE OPPORTUNITY
No matter how good your set of clubs or your golf professional, your body has to play the shot. Train it well and you gain significant advantage. Modern environments place significant stresses on key functional and postural systems of the human body. Reduced performance levels in these systems leads to reduced performance levels on the golf course. The only way to counteract the effects of injury history and modern habits like sitting, driving, stress and poor diet is to put in place an effective performance training programme. 4D Golf is designed to ensure your body and brain are capable of doing what your golf professional is asking them to do.
THE GOAL
We are passionate about supporting the work of Golf Professionals to help golfers to improve their handicap and distance, as well as reducing pain and injury. 4D Fitness has been researching and developing techniques to achieve these goals for over 10 years. We have put together a highly effective and enjoyable programme that can improve every golfer’s game with a minimum of time and effort… 4D Golf. 4D Golf is an innovative course that will give golfers a whole new influence over their game. Working on the relationship between brain, body and club through the right training, will improve connectivity… and hence your golf.
THE EXPERIENCE
Some gyms, health clubs and therapists do offer training for golfers – why is 4D Golf different?
1. 4D Golf will introduce a sophisticated toolkit of techniques to improve your swing through the connectivity of brain, body and club… in one programme… with one trainer. . . and will stay with you for the rest of your life.
2. Your personal coach will work with you to develop a custom-made programme to suit your particular genetics, lifestyle, golfing ability and injury history.
3. This motivational programme is delivered one-onone, either in your home, your clubhouse or in a location convenient to you, to inspire you to play better golf.
UNDERSTANDING CONNECTIVITY
A golf swing requires the co-ordination of a very high number of complex muscle movements. To try to control all of these through conscious thought is simply exceeding the processing capability of the human brain. Every golfer knows that when they don’t think about their swing, but feel it , the shot is likely to go much better. How does the brain work? Broadly speaking we can identify three layers of the brain – Brain Stem, Lymbic System and Cerebrum Cortex – corresponding to the three main evolutionary stages of human development. In order to feel the shot you must transfer control of the swing to the ‘sub- conscious’ Brain Stem, and away from the ‘conscious’ Cerebral Cortex. The Brain Stem is the only part of the brain that can help you to swing instinctively. 4D Golf will facilitate this process
IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY
1. The Neuromuscular System
Effective, fast communication between brain and body is central to any sporting performance, and yet very little attention is given to training and improving it. One of the key elements of 4D Golf is to provide techniques that will enhance the connection between your brain and your body. Most golfers who follow standard fitness training programmes are in danger of impeding this connection rather than improving it. 4D Golf will provide you with techniques to train the neuromuscular system that are scientific, low cost and time efficient.
2. Balance and Timing
Your golf professional will tell you how important balance and timing are to your game. Very few golfers have effective strategies for training them. 4D Golf will give you a scientific, individualised programme to improve both timing and balance.
3. Core Function
To repeat a high quality swing again and again, you must have good core function. Modern environments and habits like sitting, driving, lack of exercise and poor nutrition result in a decrease in function of the core musculature. This decrease in function is the root cause of most of the joint pain experienced in western societies, and is exacerbated by repeated golf swings. Your coach will assess, and prescribe corrective techniques that are simple, effective and time efficient.
ABOUT 4D GOLF
Who created it?
Nick Berners-Price is Managing Director of 4D Fitness UK Ltd and a specialist in performance and health. He has followed a passion for understanding the function of the human body for the past twenty years, has worked with over 1000 individuals and is the creator of the 4D Performance Programmes. The programmes are built on one underpinning philosophy that makes them unique:
“Identify the key functional requirements of the human body and brain, assess and correct them, BEFORE addressing the superficial requirements of strength, stamina and speed”. Through researching techniques for assessing and improving balance, timing, breathing, core function and movement skills he accumulated a unique toolkit of solutions for enhancing performance. It has become apparent that these techniques are in fact the missing link for a human body trying to maintain function and performance in modern environments.
Who delivers it?
A team of personal trainers specialising in optimising the physical ability to perform. Very different to any other personal training company in the UK, and probably in the world, our golf training programmes can be placed in the gap that exists between your golf professional and a gym or health club.
Where does our information come from?
The information used to create the 4D Performance Programmes has been drawn from many sources, including The American College of Sports Medicine, The CHEK Institute in California, Dahn Hak (a Korean health and performance system), The Titleist Performance Institute and Flexisports UK Ltd.
By the 4D Personal Trainer Putney SW15
