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By Allen Christensen, Health Promotion and Wellness Operations Manager, Intermountain LiVe Well Center-St. George Intermountain Healthcare’s LiVe Well Center in St. George, Utah, is excited to introduce their newest fitness program for golfers of all levels: the LiVe Well Golf Fitness Program. This program is based on research from the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California. It is being offered at the St. George LiVe Well Center by Jeffrey Kennedy, a clinical About the Author exercise physiologist with nearly thirty years Allen Christensen, DHEd, of experience. Kennedy has earned a master’s MBA, CHES, is the manager degree and multiple certifications from of Health Promotion and the American College of Sports Medicine, Wellness Operations at the Cardiovascular Credentialing International, Intermountain LiVe Well Center-St.George. and the American Heart Association. In addition, he’s been certified by the Titleist Performance Institute as a level three medical evaluator since 2006. St. George’s newest golf fitness program combines Intermountain Healthcare’s continued commitment to provide quality programming with credentialed professionals and with Titleist Performance Institute’s (TPI) belief that golf swings are as unique as the individual. The TPI philosophy does not believe that there is only one way to swing a club. Based on the Institute’s research, there are an infinite number of swing styles possible that are equally effective based on the individual’s unique body mechanics and strength. TPI spent close to twenty years and observed 100,000 golfers of all abilities in order to study golf swings and develop the TPI Body-Swing Connection. Their research has shown there is a personal and efficient way for every player to swing based on the player’s physical abilities. Using this data, TPI discovered how a properly functioning body allows a player to swing a golf club in the most efficient way possible. Additionally, TPI has analyzed how physical limitations in a player’s body can adversely affect the golf swing and potentially lead to injury.
