Bob Forman
MS Exercise Science, Titleist Certified Golf Fitness Instructor
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Bob Forman Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Golf fitness, wellness
- Career Focus
- Director of the Cardio Pulmonary Rehab and Wellness Dept.
- Affiliation
- High Point Regional Health System, Owner of GolFIT Carolina
Bob Forman is the owner of GolFIT Carolina and is a Certified Golf Fitness Instructorthrough the Titleist Performance Institute. He has been working with golfers since the very first World Golf Fitness Summit back in March, 2006.
Since then, Bob has established golf fitness programs in the medical fitness center he directs for High Point Regional Health System in High Point, NC, as well as several country clubs in the Greensboro, NC, area, and is the golf fitness professional at the Golf Academy at Barefoot Resort and Golf in Myrtle Beach, SC. He enjoys offering golf fitness workshops to Clubs and organizations around the country.
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GOLF POSTURE
There are 3 known golf postures, the N, C, and S, but only one of these address positions is physiologically ideal for healthy, productive outcomes. Do you know which one you are? The N-posture is preferred by teaching professionals, but seems to elude many current-day golfers. It’s characterized by a straight spine or back and is really the precursor to an efficient, textbook golf swing. It also helps keep both the acute and chronic nagging injury to a minimum.
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Functional Golf Training
Most sports that involve striking an object do so while the object is in motion. Unlike baseball, tennis, hockey, soccer, and the like, golf requires that contact be made with a stationary object. That may sound like a simpler task, but consider that productive contact relies upon the physical characteristics of the golfer along with the environment from which the shot is being made. In this regard, swinging a golf club is perhaps one of the tougher skills to perfect. Granted, hitting a moving object requires good eye-hand coordination and plenty of practice.
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Balance and the Golf Swing
When’s the last time you practiced standing on one foot and holding your balance? Probably never. Yet it’s a key ingredient in our daily lives and that includes playing golf. Balance is one of those things that we pretty much take for granted. Not many of us think about it, nor practice it, even though it can keep us from seriously injuring ourselves and help us perform daily tasks better. How many times have you heard of someone - who was in pretty good shape - fall and break something, and was never really the same again?
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Golfing with COPD (Pulmonary Disease)
As if playing golf isn’t tough enough, imagine playing when you can’t breathe that well. That’s what people with COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease must face, but that shouldn’t deter their love for the game. COPD, according to the Mayo Clinic, is the overall term for a group of chronic lung conditions that obstruct the airways in your lungs. The two most common are chronic bronchitis and emphysema, but it can also refer to damage caused by asthmatic bronchitis.
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MUSCLE ACTIVATION IN THE GOLF SWING
Having worked in the fitness field for over 30 years, the one thing I know for sure is that time is a significant factor when it comes to exercise compliance. So when partaking in an exercise program to improve your golf game, it would be extremely beneficial to know which muscle groups are relevant in the golf swing so that a focused program can be developed. A search was done to determine muscle activation during the golf swing. Though somewhat limited, it did uncover a number of muscle groups that are predominant while swinging a golf club.
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