A journey back to health and fitness – Josh Leyes Par4Success #381
Mind Caddie - Improve Your Mental Golf Game
Release Date: 10/31/2025
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Why do we find SIMPLE golf so difficult? – Jon Sherman and Adam Young #384
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A journey back to health and fitness – Josh Leyes Par4Success #381
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Today on the show we have a personal story of my own attempt to get back to health and fitness. After pretty much living in a gym for the past 30 or so years I had major surgery and then complications which stopped me training or playing for over 3 years With the help of Josh Leyes at Par4Success I have managed slowly to coax my body back into training. Even to be back in the gym at all feels like a major victory I couldn’t have done any of it without the help of the guys at Par4Success They are without doubt the best I have come across in terms of fitness and conditioning in the past 30...
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Is your THINKING destroying your GAME? – Dr Chris Niebauer #380
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The problem with thinking so much and more importantly BELIEVING those thoughts Today on the Mind Caddie we have a really special guest in the shape of Dr Chris Niebauer author of the incredible books ‘No Self No Problem’ and ‘The No Self No Problem Workbook’ Chris’s work has been a really big influence on my thinking over recent times. He paints a wonderful picture of what Golf and Life could be if we began to have a different relationship to our thinking mind. If we could understand what our thinking mind is actually up to. We wouldn’t take it so seriously. We wouldn’t try to...
info_outlineToday on the show we have a personal story of my own attempt to get back to health and fitness.
After pretty much living in a gym for the past 30 or so years I had major surgery and then complications which stopped me training or playing for over 3 years
With the help of Josh Leyes at Par4Success I have managed slowly to coax my body back into training.
Even to be back in the gym at all feels like a major victory
I couldn’t have done any of it without the help of the guys at Par4Success
They are without doubt the best I have come across in terms of fitness and conditioning in the past 30 years
It was great to get Josh on the show
We discussed:
- The importance of taking the 4 Rotary Tests
- Why data gives you an inspiring goal to aim at
- Why functional rotation is so important
- How speed training alone can be dangerous for your body
- Are you an injury waiting to happen?
- The joy of being able to move better
- The role of the mind in effective training
A really great session with a top trainer who has helped me so much
I cannot overemphasise how important it is to take the ROTATIONAL TEST
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