“She [Lexi Thompson] is probably one of the greatest athletes I’ve ever worked with.” That’s Coach K-Wayne from a phenomenal article written recently by Hally Leadbetter for Golf Digest.

The much anticipated Tokyo Olympics are finally upon us. We’re excited to settle in and watch athletes from all sports finally get their opportunity to show the world what they’ve got. 

Sure, we have the word "golf" in our company name and, yes, our logo is of a golfer, but not everyone that comes into the Joey D Golf Sports Training Center has birdies and eagles in mind when they walk through our door. When Logan Morrison first came to us, he wasn't trying to get help with a swing that hooked or sliced, he was looking to get back on track with a swing that had cracked almost 150 major league baseball home runs.

In our previous blog, we talked a bit about our golf workout programs. Unlike traditional fitness training, golf-specific fitness training is a process. A solid program is developmental -- a targeted training program to help a golfer get from where she or he is to where they want to be. Let's dig a little deeper into how we approach exercise program design and how our athletes feel as a result of our process.

A couple of questions we get all the time at here at the Joey D Golf Sports Training Center are "When will I be done with my program?" and "When will I reach my goal?"

Our answer is simple: "Never."

Adrian Reed came to the Joey D Golf Sports Training Center about three months ago with some back issues, which kept him from playing his best golf. Coach Travis Lampton was quickly able to recognize that Adrian had some postural issues that were impacting his game. And this was just the beginning.

We're really lucky to be living down here in Florida. As long as it's not raining, it's a golf day. Of course, we realize that everyone isn't this lucky. In many parts of the country, the golf season may be as short as six or seven months. We get asked all the time about how someone's workout should change from the fall to the winter to the spring and into summer. It's a great question because there are definitely things that you want to be doing in the off-season or pre-season that you might not want to be doing once you're out playing 18 on a regular basis.

We've reached early February, which means that if you made any New Year's resolutions a few weeks ago, there's a good chance that you've already broken them. Don't worry! Most folks have trouble sticking to their resolutions. If one of your resolutions was to become a better golfer, though, you're in luck. It might not have been as easy as you thought to go cold turkey on those lottery scratch tickets, but adding a few yards to your tee shot or increasing your accuracy or consistency with your irons is still very much in the cards for 2021.

We're all pretty good at reading facial expressions. We know when someone is happy and we know when someone is sad or upset. But here at the Joey D Golf Sports Training Center, we know a very unique facial expression. And we see it every time someone comes into the facility for the first time. They may have read our blogs and books and they may have seen Coach Joey D or Coach K-Wayne Tullier on TV, but nothing prepares them for those first initial steps onto the training floor. Everyone gets that same look on their face. It's a look that says: "Whoa! This is much bigger and much cooler than I ever expected!"

I've been in the fitness industry my entire life and I've been working with professional golfers for over 20 years. I'm proud to be the strength, conditioning, and biomechanics coach who helped three phenomenal players reach the number one spot in the World Golf Rankings (Vijay Singh, 2004, Dustin Johnson, 2017, and Brooks Koepka, 2018).