Play Golf Forever: A Physiotherapist's Guide to Golf Fitness and Health for the Over 50s

by Suzanne Clark

Overview

Play Golf Forever is a practical guide to slowing down the gradual decline in your body as you get older. Suzanne Clark has 30 years' experience as a physiotherapist and is a keen, all-round sports player. She explains in layman's terms how your body works when you play golf and what you can do to make it healthier and fitter to enable you to play for longer. She describes how to strengthen key muscles as part of the everyday tasks you already do, how to prevent injury and what to do if you are injured. This book is for all the over 50s who want to keep playing golf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784520878
Publisher:	Panoma Press
Publication date:	06/02/2016
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Clark established Fitter Forever, an organisation that helps people over 50 stay it and healthy enough to continue playing sport as they get older. She is an all-round sports player, including adventurous activities such as sprint triathlons, off-piste skiing and sailing around the UK coast. Suzanne is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Table of Contents

Introduction
CHAPTER 1 How your muscles age
CHAPTER 2 How your muscles work when you play golf
CHAPTER 3 Common golf injuries and how they affect your swing
CHAPTER 4 Simple injury prevention
CHAPTER 5 Home exercise programme to keep you fit for golf
CHAPTER 6 How to treat and overcome common golf injuries, aches and pains
CHAPTER 7 How to look after yourself following injury
CHAPTER 8 Personal exercise record
CHAPTER 9 Equipment and useful websites
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

This book has given me back my confidence on the golf course with better balance and stronger muscles. I feel like I did years ago!

M Devereux

PGF has helped improve my balance and fitness for everyday things as well as golf. I’m recommending it to all of my golfing friends.

C Rogers

The advice on injury prevention and treatment is like having your own personal physio looking after you.

R Davis

PGF has helped improve my balance and fitness for everyday things as well as golf. I'm recommending it to all of my golfing friends.--C Rogers

The advice on injury prevention and treatment is like having your own personal physio looking after you.--R Davis

This book has given me back my confidence on the golf course with better balance and stronger muscles. I feel like I did years ago!--M Devereux

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