Conditioning Golf

Mark works with professional or amateur golfers who want to improve their whole game, particularly their long drive.

Mark will help you improve your core strength, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, posture, coordination, and balance. As your conditioning improves, your game will improve and become more consistent, and you will be better able to avoid golf-related injuries.

You might also consider scheduling a thirty-minute manual stretching session with Mark before you play. Stretching will of course increase your flexibility and range of movement, and may even mean fewer tendon and muscle injuries.


Personal Training for General Health

If you want to improve your overall health, Mark will design a structured exercise program for you based on your unique fitness needs and goals. The program will be uncomplicated and therefore easy to follow.

As with all his clients, Mark will begin by asking you for health and lifestyle information so that he can evaluate your starting fitness level. If there appear to be any medical concerns, he will make sure that you are seeing a doctor or other health-care professional.

Your program will include, in addition to aerobic exercises, upper-body and lower-body strength training, stretching, and flexibility exercises.

Measurements will be regularly taken and recorded — including your weight and percentage of body fat — so that you can keep track of your improvements.


Personal Training for Strength

Your sessions with Mark will include various strength conditioning techniques, periodization load assignment schedule, nutritional advice, supplementation discussion, core strength and/or neuromuscular stabilization training.

Building strong, healthy muscles improves your overall health and gives you a toned and fit appearance.

You will find that your metabolism gets a boost, your energy level is higher, your posture and balance are improved, and that injuries are less likely — all without the health hazards associated with steroids.

If you want to improve your strength, Mark will guide you toward gradually heavier lifting and a generally more regimented lifting program, using specific techniques designed for increased strength.


Personal Training for Weight Loss

Mark is enthusiastic about working with people who have a lot of weight to lose, and he makes sure that his overweight clients do not allow their embarassment about they way they look keep them from making the changes they want to make.

Your sessions with Mark will include cardiovascular workouts, nutritional advice and discussion, flexibility and balance training, strength training, and the opportunity to get positive and encouraging answers to your questions and concerns.

If you want to improve lose weight and improve your health in the process, Mark

• will design cardiovascular workouts appropriate for the shape you're in;   
• will teach you practical, uncomplicated ways to get new, healthier eating habits; and
• will guide you in the safe use of weight-training equipment which will contribute to weight loss and gradual body toning.

 
Physical Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention

Mark works with people who have sustained an injury, and designs preventative exercises for professional, amateur, and casual athletes who want to prevent injuries.

Mark's special interests include the rehabilitation and prevention of back, shoulder, and knee injuries.

Mark will begin by carefully assessing your injury or risk of injury, including a discussion with your health care professional when appropriate.

Preventative exercise is particularly important. Knee injuries, for example, are often the result of improper technique, lack of conditioning, and inadequate flexibility — and Mark can teach you the things you can do to keep your knees strong.

If you play a sport which involves throwing, you may already know about the danger of rotator cuff tendonitis; Mark can guide you through exercises which can help.


Sport-Specific Personal Training for Athletes

Mark's Neuromuscular Stabilization Training will fine tune an athlete's balance, coordination, and overall core strength to reach a new level.  This type of training will increase motor unit synchronization and neuromuscular performance. In using this technique of training, athletes train on top of a fit ball doing a variety of exercises and challenges. Examples include throwing, catching, strength training, and stabilization tasks.  Overall, this will make any athlete stronger, agile, more coordinated, and help prevent injuries.

Mark will design individualized training programs appropriate to the demands of an athlete's particular sport.

Increasing an athlete's strength and flexibility will improve performance in nearly every sport, but the increase must meet the demands of the specific sport. Simply lifting increasingly heavier weights, for example, may not result in increased power and speed in a specific sport.

Mark will help you avoid both over-training and under-training, and he will show you how to increase your overall strength without steroids.

Mark helps professional and amateur athletes move intelligently to a higher level of performance in their sport, including:

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Football
• Golf
• Lacrosse
• Powerlifting
• Soccer
• Softball
• Tennis
• Wrestling

Mark will help you understand the importance of nutrition and motivate you to achieve the trainings goals you set with his guidance.