About Ann & Golf
I’ve been playing golf for over 30 years and recently represented the Portuguese Ladies Senior Team in Sweden.
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I love that golf can be whatever you want it to be. A fun round with friends, a tournament challenge, time to relax, a reason to travel or simply a way to get out into nature.
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Living in the Algarve, I see a lot of golfers who love the game but feel stiff, get niggles or can’t get into the swing positions they used to. We often work hard on our swing but forget about the body that has to make it.
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Build a strong, mobile and resilient body and golf becomes something you can play for life. Not just play, but enjoy—with fewer injuries, more freedom in your swing and better health too.
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My approach has evolved over 22 years as a trainer, alongside my experience of yoga, golf and specialist golf fitness training. The most important thing I’ve learnt is that everyone is different. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
What Golf Fitness Involves
Golf fitness is more than rotation drills and stability balls. The body has to function on every level.
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Strong foundations
Mobility is the base. Strength and power are built on it. As we age, that base helps to keep us swinging pain-free. Keeping our bodies strong and mobile is not only good for our golf, but for life too.
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Mind and breath
Yoga can help golfers stay mobile and flexible, but it also teaches us how to use the breath, stay present, handle pressure and accept that not every shot will go to plan.
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Fuel for the round
What you eat and when you eat it can make a real difference to your round. Keeping our body fuelled and hydrated helps us perform as well at the end of the round as we did at the beginning.
Work with me
Golf Specific
Personal Training
Individual training built around your body, your golf and what you want to improve.
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We can work on mobility, strength, balance, stability and the movement you need for your swing.
Your sessions are adapted to your current fitness, any injuries or limitations and the way your body moves.
Online Golf Fitness Coaching
Train with me wherever you are through the Fit2loveLife app. Your programme is written individually for your body, your goals and your schedule.
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• Individual training plan
• Updated as you progress
• Weekly check-ins from me
• Direct messaging through the app
€39 a month.
Most of us walk to the first tee, swing a club a few times and hope for the best.
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Here’s a seven-minute warm-up to do at the range or before you tee off.
Loosen the body, lower your injury risk and swing well from the first hole.
7 Minute Golf Warm Up
I’ve have been doing Ann’s golf fitness classes for a while now, and I can highly recommend, not only has my golf improved, lost 3 shots off my handicap since I started but my flexibility and strength have really improved, I’m hitting the ball far longer then I ever did!! Plus it’s always good fun whether I’m in class or on line!
Janice Galloway PT
"I have to admit I started Golf Fitness at the start of Covid as a way of staying fit. However, I am a social golfer so was more than pleasantly pleased that I was hitting the ball so much further as a result. This I put down to the different core and flexibility exercises that Ann has introduced to everybody taking the class.
In addition I play over 50’s cricket for Dorset and the exercises have helped my batting particularly my timing - am averaging 54 this summer so what more can I say- big thank you Ann"
Steve Webb - UK
“.I thought I was fit before working with Ann! In particular my golf has improved with a noticeable improvement in club head speed, Ann is one of the first things I book in when returning to Portugal. Ann has a great way of understanding her clients that allows her to push them that extra 10% which is needed to truly improve”