Exercise plays a key role with your age. Recently, I was stopped in my tracks by an article in the national news with the headline: “Average person feels too OLD to workout at 41”. Surprising? Disturbing? In this survey of 2,000 adults, most pegged 41 years old as the age when one becomes too old to work out regularly. I read this article with fascination. I had just been thinking about this subject, but in an entirely different way. After a recent trip to Australia, I got knocked down by an unusually severe cold-like virus. Though my illness lasted about...

Here’s a scenario you may find all too familiar: You start a round of golf feeling physically great and excited about the day ahead. Then, a few holes in, it happens. Your lower back starts acting up and it becomes increasingly more difficult to make a swing, place the ball on the tee and pick it up after you’ve made a putt. Fact is, lower back pain is the most common complaint and injury in the game of golf. Of course, there’s been no shortage of attention with the likes of Tiger Woods, Jason Day, Fred Couples and many others...

Golf is an advanced skill which requires timing and rhythm to execute a good swing. It requires a lot of ground-up and rotational force, from the foot, transferring to the ankle, then to the knee, into the hip through the spine and into the shoulder, eventually to the wrist then out to the club. It’s not very different from other high-speed rotational sports, such as a baseball swing or a tennis swing. In all of these high-speed rotational sports, it’s critical to drive force through the body and control it. It’s not just about accelerating, it’s about decelerating too. That’s...