Performance with a purpose
Golf
Golf
Golf fitness is an intricate and dedicated service offered at Goodwin Strength & Service designed to improve your golf game from an educated and intentional approach.
How is golf fitness different than regular exercise?
Golf fitness isn’t just about getting stronger or fitter — it’s about training your body to move more efficiently for the golf swing.
Unlike general workouts, which focus on broad goals like weight loss or muscle gain, golf fitness is highly specialized. It targets the specific mobility, stability, strength, balance, and power demands of the golf swing.
Here’s how it’s different:
Functional, Golf-Specific Movement: Golf fitness focuses on rotational movement, balance, core control, and joint mobility — especially in the hips, shoulders, and thoracic spine — all critical for a powerful and consistent swing.
Body-Swing Connection: Through screening and assessment (utilizing the TPI system), we identify how your body influences your swing mechanics. That allows us to correct physical limitations that may be causing inconsistency, pain, or lack of distance.
Injury Prevention: Many swing faults and golf-related injuries stem from underlying movement issues. Golf fitness helps reduce strain on your body by improving how you move — not just how much you lift.
Performance-Driven: Every exercise has a purpose tied to your game. Whether it’s generating more clubhead speed, improving your balance, or finishing 18 holes pain-free, golf fitness is about playing better and feeling better.
Simply put: You don’t need a bodybuilder’s strength to play great golf — you need a golfer’s body that moves well.
What is Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) and why does it matter?
The Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) is the world’s leading authority on how the human body affects the golf swing. Our lead trainer, Jay, is versed in all of TPI’s techniques and education.
Founded by experts in golf, fitness, and biomechanics, TPI developed a system to evaluate a golfer’s body and how it influences their swing mechanics, power, consistency, and injury potential.
Using a specialized physical screening process, TPI-certified professionals like Jay can identify limitations in mobility, stability, or strength that may be causing swing faults or holding back performance. In fact, most times, Jay can pinpoint a golfer’s swing faults before even seeing them swing. He does this through the TPI testing and movement assessment. From there, he can design personalized training and correction programs to help golfers move better, swing better, and play better.
What does golf fitness look like?
Working with Jay offers golfers a cutting-edge advantage in performance, injury prevention, and overall fitness.
Here's what sets him and his TPI-based protocol apart:
Golf-Specific Expertise
TPI Level 3 Trainers specialize in the unique physical demands of the golf swing. Jay understands how mobility, stability, strength, and power translate directly to performance on the course.
Comprehensive Body-Swing Analysis
Using the TPI screening system, Jay can assess how your body impacts your swing. This leads to a personalized fitness plan that improves efficiency, power, and consistency.
Customized Fitness Programs
No generic workouts. Jay will design programs based on your individual swing characteristics, physical limitations, and golf goals — maximizing results while minimizing injury risk.
Injury Prevention & Longevity
Many swing faults are caused by physical limitations. Jay will identify and corrects these issues, helping you play longer, healthier, and pain-free.
Performance Gains
Jay is proficient in optimizing:
Swing speed
Rotational power
Flexibility and balance
Core stability
All of which translate to more distance, better control, and improved scores.
Tour-Proven Methods
The world’s best players — including over 25 of the top 30 PGA Tour professionals — work with TPI-certified experts. You’re getting access to the same high-level training used by elite athletes at GSS.
“Golfers will benefit the most from a healthy and efficient body.”
Athletics
Athletics
At Goodwin Strength & Stretch, we desire to create and enhance athletes who hunger for elite performance through training in…
increased power
improved endurance
force production
advanced strength
Successful athletic training requires professionals with extensive experience in high-school, college, and professional-level settings. Our trainers have all of this and more, making them a perfect fit for anybody looking to upgrade their skill and game.
Especially versed in the complexities of the body and how its movement can translate into skill-specific play, GSS values the safe and effective progression of all types of athletes.