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Dr. Chad Anderson, DC

PROactive Health & Performance Centre ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Dartmouth, NS

10/25/2022

Did you reach your goals this golf season?

Have you seen a growth in your golf game?

Did you stay healthy and strong throughout the season?

These are a few questions an athlete needs to reflect on after any season.

Did my athletes reach their goals this season?

Have you seen a growth in their golf game?

Did they stay healthy and strong throughout the season?

AND

Was I the right fit for my athlete?

These are the questions that I reflect on about my athletes.

I hope to improve next season, do you?

09/29/2022

Not all young athletes should be treated the same. Literature has shown that young athletes of the same chronological age can differ markedly with respect to biological age. Young athletes develop physically at different times, based upon where they are in their biological development. One 13 year old athlete could be at an 11 year old biological age whereas another 13 year old athlete could be at a 15 year old biological age.

The problem with a lot of junior programs is we program based on chronological age when it should be based on biological age. This should be a major consideration when we program for this age group.

With keeping this in mind - muscular strength and motor skill proficiency should be the centre of training. Further speed development is massive during this time - specifically the ability to create force with ground-contact and reduce the duration that this occurs. THIS IS A SKILL THAT DOES NOT DEVELOP NATURALLY. In other words, the speed you develop as a youth can determine the speed you have as an adult.

Lastly, a younger athlete should be monitored for physical and psychosocial demands. Many younger athletes play multiple sports and can be overworked both physically and mentally. We must periodize their training to allow for recovery and growth. Strength and conditioning should be a major component of the younger athlete’s training and not JUST an add-on to fill a day.

Try these considerations to get the most of your junior programs!

06/01/2022

Golf season is upon us up here in the North and here are some considerations to make it a great season!

1️⃣ Be mindful of the increase in activity that golf provides

If you golf three times a week, that can mean up to 15 hours of activity. If you add that to either an already activate lifestyle or a non-active lifestyle, that is a lot of extra load on the body. Yes - walking and rotating repeatedly is load on the body!
To my athletes, my advice is simple, if the body feels tired from more golf, then we are going to skip some in-season workouts. If the body feels great, then we can keep them. Golf takes priority in-season, and the activity in the gym is there for maintenance purposes.

2️⃣ Pre/post-round routines

We all tend to avoid these, but they can be so important when it comes to staying injury free and at our best during the round. Make sure you have a proper warm up in place either before you get to the course or at the course. If you want to play multiple days in a row, post-round maintenance might also be considered

3️⃣ Recovery

This ties in with the last consideration. Sleep and nutrition become so important during the season. Remember, 15 hours of increased activity puts stress on the body. We need to counter that stress with proper recovery. Finding good recovery habits is the goal here.

As always, listen to your body - it is okay to sit out once awhile.

04/26/2022

One repeatable swing.

That is what most golfers strive for.

Here is the hard truth…
There is no such thing.

Think of all the variables in golf: from equipment, to topography, to even our own bodies. Variables change from day to day and even swing to swing. This photo shows three of my swings and three different positions at the top of each one.

The best athletes in the world can have variability with their swing but can still produce the same outcome. For example: we can have a ball on a flat ground or a ball slightly above our feet and an elite right-handed golfer can still produce a 5 yard fade.

Due to the change in the ground, these two swings would have to be different but BOTH produced the same outcome.

The hard part is - how do we train this?

When we work on our swings, we typically do it at a driving range or within a simulator. Both of which keep the variables to a minimum.

So then how do we do it?

First, we need to take our swings to the course, and work off of different scenarios.

Second, we need to be an athlete. We need to train our bodies to handle different stimulus. Repetitive routines don’t allow for body adaptation.

The take-a-way is simple: train like an athlete.

If you need help to understand what that means for you, reach out!

03/27/2022

Your goals come first - programs are there to help you get there.

Reach out to get started today.

03/03/2022

A simple exercise is just as effective as a complex one as long as the athlete understands the purpose and is concentrated on it.

Sometimes both the athlete and the coach can get lost in the complexity of programming and training. We go through the motions, check mark the exercise as complete, but don’t understand why we are doing it.

Even if the exercise is not performed perfectly, if the intent is there, then the results will come.

As athletes - understand the purpose.
As coaches - communicate the purpose.

02/07/2022

I am a strong believer that there are 3 aspects that make up golf performance:

1️⃣ Swing Mechanics - working with a good teacher
2️⃣ Fitness - to optimize strength, power, endurance, mobility and to prevent injury
3️⃣ Equipment - fitted for the individual

Golf sometimes has way too much focus on one area while sacrificing the others. There has to be a balance, and that balance must fit each individual.

Find the right balance for you while keeping these 3 in mind!

01/18/2022

Programs are designed specifically for the individual.

Reach out to get started today.

01/09/2022

Mobility? Strength? Power?

A golf specific physical screen with a trained professional is the first step. If the best players in the world believe in it so should you.

Reach out if you want to take advantage of this off-season.

12/11/2021

The biggest predictor we have for a cause of injury is a change in load. This could be from an increase or decrease in activity, a change in equipment we use, or even the terrain we train on.

Before we even identify some possible physical limitations, we must understand why the athlete became injured in the first place.

We are sometimes too quick to identify postural and physical faults that have NO effect on the injury before asking the important questions about what changed in the athlete’s activity.

Rounded T-spine, no hip mobility or the inability to squat below parallel ONLY becomes important with injury if the change in load with combination of the physical limitation caused the problem. Otherwise… WHO CARES!

Athletes live with physical adaptations all the time with no pain, so we must not be so quick to ASSUME this is the cause of pain.

Ask the right questions, assess the athlete’s physical capabilities, build a plan for recovery with the mindset of reaching their goals!

11/28/2021

Physical screens only become useful if the person who interprets them does it properly.

Too many times we think in black and white. I see THIS on a physical screen therefore the athlete should SWING LIKE THIS. This is unrealistic - although there are correlations of physical screens to swing characteristics, they are not 100%. We also cannot always assume that these limitations will result in injury. This limitation might work well for the athlete and their swing. I don’t want to change anything that works.

Also, there is not just one type of screen out there, and we should not just assume that one type is superior to the others. I typically use Physical Screens as my base, but when in need I will pull other tests from other screens to help me understand the athlete better.

Athletic performance is not always simple. We need to bring all parts together, swing and body, when assessing the athlete.

11/14/2021

Happy Birthday to my awesome wife ! Although you are working on your special day, don’t worry, all the chores will be done… right after all the sports are done on tv… love you!

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Tuesday	8am - 3pm
Wednesday	12pm - 7pm
Thursday	8am - 3pm
Friday	8am - 7pm

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