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Yes, that's me getting coached (I need it 😅)Tyson runs the swing instruction here at Tee Box and he's exceptional at i...
10/24/2026

Yes, that's me getting coached (I need it 😅)

Tyson runs the swing instruction here at Tee Box and he's exceptional at it. I handle the body that has to make that swing. Different jobs, same goal.

When a golfer comes to me with a sore back or a hip that won't let them follow through, I'm not rebuilding their swing. I'm building the strength and mobility the swing needs. When the swing itself is the problem, I send them to Tyson to figure out their mechanics. And sometimes I even sit in on the lesson so we're on the same page.

Body problem? That's me. Swing problem? That's Tyson.

PT, strength, and golf under one roof, inside Tee Box in Idaho Falls.

10/23/2026

Two sessions in, he stopped coming in. Too expensive, and he wasn't seeing results yet.

Later that year he had knee surgery. That meant three months out of the gym, then rehab that never got him back to squatting and deadlifting heavy.

Twelve months later? Same spot. Three years later? He's still modifying his workouts around that knee.

First of all, that one's partly on me. I couldn't paint the value of staying the course and fixing his knee pain with some aggressive PT, which might have prevented a surgery and years of deconditioning. Could we have avoided the surgery entirely? Maybe, maybe not.

But second of all... rehab that doesn't eventually look like training isn't finished.

Don't spend three years working around it.

10/23/2026

Everyone's been coached to "drive your knees out" so they don't cave in on a squat.

She was doing exactly that, and her knee still hurt. Putting a band around her knees to push them out even further made it worse.

So we flipped it, the opposite of the modern squat cue: knees tracking toward the first toe, with more adductor involvement. And what do you know? Her squats actually felt way better.

A cue is a tool, not a rule. If it isn't working for your body, it's probably not you. It's the cue.

Knees hurt when you squat? Let's figure out why.

Want better balance? You might need to get pushed. (On purpose. Safely.)Most balance advice sounds the same: stand on on...
10/22/2026

Want better balance? You might need to get pushed. (On purpose. Safely.)

Most balance advice sounds the same: stand on one foot while you brush your teeth, hold the counter, be careful. That's not useless. But think about the last time you almost fell. You weren't standing still and ready. You caught a toe on a curb, the dog cut in front of you, or the ice showed up where you didn't expect it.

A huge new review just looked at 423 studies with almost 34,000 adults over 60. They compared 19 different kinds of balance exercise against each other. 18 of the 19 helped. The only one that didn't? Stretching.

The top spot went to perturbation training. That's a fancy word for getting knocked off balance on purpose so your body practices the save. Right behind it: eyes-closed and soft-surface work, dance, and quick stepping drills.

The honest part: those top few were close, so this isn't a crown. Different exercises led for different kinds of balance. Perturbation work did best with a coach supervising (please don't ask your spouse to shove you), and at home the eyes-closed and soft-surface drills did best.

Here's how I use it. First I figure out HOW you lose your balance, because tripping on a curb is a different problem than wobbling when you turn around. Then we train that exact problem. Band tugs while you hold your stance. Quick steps on my call. Catching a ball while standing on foam. I'm usually smiling. You're usually concentrating.

Balance is a skill. Skills get better with a challenge, not with being careful.

Save this for the next time someone tells you to "just be careful." Swipe through for the full breakdown.

Source: Wang et al., Ageing Research Reviews, 2026.

10/22/2026

He hadn't deadlifted (or done much strength training at all) in 15 years. We'd done needling, some other hands-on work, focused hip work and cable loading, and progress was slower than either of us wanted.

So we loaded it. A classic 5×5, working up to 225 lbs.

Four days later: "My back actually feels better this week."

Tissue adapts to what you ask of it. When something's been guarded and deloaded for years, sometimes the fastest way forward is heavier than you'd think.

Still babying your back? Let's test what it can actually handle.

Lost 10–15 yards over the last few years? Before you buy a new driver, check your hips.Sit in a chair, feet flat. Keep y...
10/21/2026

Lost 10–15 yards over the last few years? Before you buy a new driver, check your hips.

Sit in a chair, feet flat. Keep your thighs together, and then swing one foot out to the side. It's your foot moving, but all that movement is actually coming from your hip. Now try the other side.

If one side barely moves (or both), that's a hip that can't turn through the ball. Your low back and arms end up doing its job, and they're bad at it. You lose speed and pick up a sore back.

The good news: hip strength and rotational mobility are trainable. Golfers are athletes. So train like one.

Try it and tell me which side was stiffer 👇

10/21/2026

80-year-old golfer. We were working on his swing speed, which was already up 8–10 mph, when he brought up his shoulder.

He'd actually had surgery on it over 10 years ago... and yet his whole rehab was a pulley and some stretching.

IMO, that's a failure by the surgical team (same gripe with total hip replacements, but that's just me). And because of it, he'd written his shoulder off entirely: "My shoulder's just the way it is now."

So we started training his shoulder in the positions a throw actually needs. When he picked up a ball and said, "I haven't thrown a ball in 20 years," he was ecstatic. It's something he can do with his grandkids now.

His shoulder wasn't done. It just never got challenged.

Written off a part of your body? Let's find out if it's actually cooked (it's probably not).

10/20/2026

Most people protect the tissue. Here, we challenge it.

When mobility work, tempo progressions, and all the "right" things stop moving the needle — sometimes the answer is just to load a deadlift and see what happens.

Tissues adapt to what you demand of them, not what you protect them from.

That's Lesson 4 from 5 years in practice — and yeah, we've been gone a while. Episode 23 of the Seeking Wellness Podcast just dropped, and it felt right to come back with something real.

36 minutes. No fluff. Stories from the clinic.

🎙️ Link in bio.

"Turn your shoulders more."That's the speed advice most golfers get. Bigger turn, stronger core twist, more upper body.A...
10/20/2026

"Turn your shoulders more."

That's the speed advice most golfers get. Bigger turn, stronger core twist, more upper body.

A 2023 study checked where club speed actually comes from. Researchers tested 28 elite young golfers (14 men, 14 women) on hip strength, twisting strength, jump power and a backward overhead med ball throw — then measured driver speed by radar.

What lined up with club speed (a correlation — 1.0 means they move together every time, 0 means no link):
• Fast hip extension strength: 0.67 men / 0.61 women
• Jump power: 0.63 men / 0.75 women
• Backward overhead med ball throw: 0.6 for both
• Twisting (trunk rotation) strength: no link

The swing starts at the ground. Legs push, hips turn that push into rotation, and the arms and club ride the wave.

The honest part: small group, all young and very good players, and a correlation isn't proof of cause. They also tested slow, grinding twist strength — not fast rotational power, which other research says does matter. It just runs on your legs and hips.

My take: golfers come in wanting more turn. We do that too. But then we build the engine — trap bar deadlifts, hip thrusts, broad jumps, med ball throws backward and overhead, hard. Push the ground. Move fast. On purpose.

Stop chasing a bigger turn. Build a bigger engine.

Swipe through, and save this for your next range session.

Study: Suhara H, Nariai M, Takagi T, Akiyama K, Nagashima J, Shiraki H. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2023;37(4):859–865 (doi 10.1519/JSC.0000000000004345).

Pain-free is a checkpoint. Not the finish line.Most rehab wraps up the day it stops hurting. But the strength you lost w...
10/17/2026

Pain-free is a checkpoint. Not the finish line.

Most rehab wraps up the day it stops hurting. But the strength you lost while you were hurting? That usually hasn't come back yet. The pain's gone. But the job's not finished.

That's why the same back or shoulder flares up again six months later. Just because we got rid of the pain doesn't mean the problem is solved. Nothing new went wrong. The gap just never got closed. We just have to actually make those physiological changes to the muscle and tendon and nervous system to keep it from becoming a band-aid fix.

Rehab that never starts to look like training isn't done.

So, honest question: are you pain-free, or actually built back stronger? 👇

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