Golf Performance Training

Golf training at CHP is body work, not swing work. We don't fix your swing technique like a “Swing coach” would on the range; that's what your golf instructor is for. We build the body underneath the swing.

That means rotational power. Hip and thoracic mobility. Core stability. The strength and endurance to hold up over 18 holes without falling apart on the back nine. The kind of training that lets a 50-year-old still drive the ball the way they did at 35 and walk off the course feeling good the next morning instead of stiff for two days.  We give your body the strength and capacity to play more, hit it further, and ability to keep coming back to the course day after day.

If you've ever wondered why your handicaps stop improving even when your technique gets better, this is usually the answer. Your body isn't keeping up with what your swing is asking it to do.

It's for the player who used to be athletic and still plays competitive golf, even if "competitive" means "Saturday morning with the same four guys for fifteen years."

Most of the golfers I work with are business owners, executives, and professionals in their 40s and 50s. They've been around the game long enough to recognize that the limiting factor isn't their swing, it's their body. They want more distance, better consistency, and to still be playing the same level of golf in their 60s that they're playing now.

If you've never trained before and you're looking for a beginner program, we can defeintly meet you where you are at but it ultimately might not quite be the right fit. If you've got an athletic background and you want to apply real performance training to your golf game, you're in the right place.

Different job. Different room.

Your golf instructor works on technique, grip, stance, swing path, and club face. That's their world, and they're better at it than I am. My job is what happens inside your body when you swing. Rotational mechanics. The mobility to get into positions your swing requires. The strength to hit those positions consistently for four hours.

The two work together. Most of my golf clients work with me alongside their regular instruction, not instead of it. If you've been taking lessons but the changes aren't sticking, it's often because your body physically can't hold the new positions yet. That's the gap I close.

The clients who get the biggest results from CHP are the ones working both sides, body work with me, swing work with their instructor. The whole picture moves at once.

The clients who see the best results with this are typically someone who cares about playing well, plays regularly, and has an athletic foundation to build on. CHP isn't a ‘beginner” program, for golf or for anything else.

If you played sports growing up, lifted at any point in your life, or have spent years as an active person, you have what we need to work with. From there, the work meets you wherever you are.

If you're brand new to fitness and to golf, you'd be better served starting somewhere more foundational first. I'm happy to point you in that direction.

In many cases, yes. A lot of the back pain, hip tightness, and "I can barely move on Monday after Sunday's round" feeling that golfers carry isn't actually a back problem. It's a hip problem. Or a thoracic mobility problem. Or a core control problem.

When the rest of the body can't do what the swing needs it to do, the back gets recruited to make up the difference, and that's where the pain shows up.

The work we do addresses the actual cause, not just the symptom. Most of my golf clients tell me the body recovery part of the work was the surprise; they came for performance and got their body back in the process.

That said, if you have an active injury or a diagnosed condition, talk to your doctor or PT first. We can absolutely work alongside that care, but it shouldn't replace it.

Two to three times per week is the sweet spot for most clients during golf season. Off-season, we can push harder; that's where the foundation gets built for the next year of play.

The goal is to support your game, not interfere with it. You should leave training feeling better, not so wrecked you can't play your Saturday round. If a session ever leaves you in a hole for the next round, the program needs adjusting. That's the difference between training for performance and just working out.

In a gym. Specifically, at one of my in-person training facilities in Champlin or St. Paul, if you're local to the Twin Cities. If you're playing somewhere else in the country, the same approach runs remotely, programming designed around your equipment, schedule, and the specific demands of your game.

Either way, the work isn't in the course because the work isn't about your swing; it's about your body. We use the gym to build the engine. You take that engine to the course, where your golf instructor refines how you use it.