Balanced Active Healthy: Fitness to Fairway
Get stronger, hit it further and feel like you belong on the first tee.
You don’t have to earn your place on the golf course. You don’t need to know every rule, own the right outfit or have a handicap to prove anything first. But you probably know the feeling of being the one who’s behind: a group closing in on you, your partner’s mate who has hardly played and still hits it a lot further than you, a ball you didn’t see land.
A good chunk of that gap is strength, and strength is something you can build.
Most golf coaching teaches you how to swing. Very little of it asks whether your body can do what the swing needs - that might be power, stability, or the energy to walk 18 holes and still enjoy the back nine. That’s the part I work on.
Women who are a few rounds or a couple of seasons into golf, who love it and have started to notice their body is what’s holding them back. You might tire out late in a round, feel sore the next day, or struggle to find any power. You might want training that fits around your life rather than becoming another thing on the list, and you want to stop feeling like a guest in a game your partner and friends already know.
You get stronger and more powerful, with mobility and stability where you need them. You’ve got energy for the whole round, and you trust your body from the first swing. If you’ve got a handicap you want to bring down, being stronger helps. If you’d rather just play and enjoy it, that’s fine too. Either way you belong there.
Your training also keeps working on the weeks you can’t get out to play, so there’s no guilt when life gets busy. And winter is when most of this gets built. Start now and you arrive in spring ready to play, not starting again.
Everything is built around your week, not the other way round. Sessions can be short, at home or in the gym, with check-ins so we can see where you started and where you’ve got to.
Balanced Active Healthy: Fitness to Fairway
I’m not a golf pro - I’m a movement coach who fell in love with the game.
The first time I went to the range, it was because my partner wanted to go. I liked the challenge, but there were hardly any women in the bays, and the few there looked like they’d been playing for years. On the course I felt one rule behind, and I hated the feeling of a group closing in on us. I also found I’m quite mobile but have very little power. Watching men who’d barely played hit it miles past me was annoying, so I did something about it.
I grew up swimming. I loved the training and hated the competition, and golf fitness is the same for me. I like the work more than the scoreboard.
My background is in health assessment and behaviour change, so I ask questions before I hand you a programme. A plan only helps if you’ll actually do it, and my job is finding the version that fits your week, your energy and the way you think.
If you want someone who gets it - who trains smart, stays grounded, and believes in progress over pressure - I’m your coach.