EMS gets youfurther.
Whole-body EMS training for golfers. Twenty minutes a week, one-to-one, in Leixlip.
Golf is a speed sport dressed up as a walk.
Distance doesn't come from your arms. It starts in the ground, runs up through your legs and hips, gets whipped round by your core, and only then reaches the club. Weak links anywhere in that chain leak speed, and put the strain on your lower back.
- 1
Legs
Push off the ground
- 2
Glutes & hips
Start the rotation
- 3
Core
Stores and releases it
- 4
Back
Holds your posture
- 5
Shoulders & chest
Pass it on
- 6
Arms
Deliver the club
Every muscle in that chain, switched on at once.
You wear a wireless suit with electrodes over your legs, glutes, core, back, chest and arms. While you move through simple golf-based exercises, gentle impulses make the muscles work far harder than the movement alone would. No heavy weights, no pounding on your joints.
Twenty minutes
One session a week is the standard setting used in the golf research.
Deep activation
Impulses reach the muscles that stabilise your swing, not just the ones you can see.
Joint friendly
Light movements, no barbells. Kind to knees, shoulders and backs that have played a lot of golf.
Built for your back
Trunk strength is what protects the lower back, golf's most common injury.
Golf-specific
The second half of each session uses rotation, swing and posture drills.
Always one-to-one
Gerard sets the intensity for each muscle group and trains with you the whole way.
54 golfers. 16 weeks. One session a week.
A randomised controlled trial at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg put amateur golfers aged 18 to 70 through exactly this routine, half of them training and half not.
US golf clubs put it in the clubhouse.
Country clubs in Virginia and Georgia have installed whole-body EMS for their members, PGA Magazine's golf fitness network partnered with miha bodytec, the German maker of the system we use, and a golf fitness studio in Scottsdale has had professional golfers training on it.
Same technology. Leixlip prices.
Eleven years of EMS. Still in the suit himself.
Gerard walked into his first EMS session as a sceptic, a long-time weightlifter who kept picking up injuries. Forty-eight hours later he could feel muscles he'd forgotten he had. He's been training people on EMS ever since.
He's in his 60s, trains on EMS every week, and runs every session one-to-one on the wireless miha bodytec MOVE. No supplements, no gadgets, no quick fixes. Just honest, hard, short training.
Questions golfers ask.
Will EMS actually add distance to my drives?
Nobody can honestly promise you a number of yards. What the research shows is that once-a-week, 20-minute whole-body EMS made amateur golfers significantly stronger through the trunk and legs over 16 weeks, and those are the muscles that create speed in the swing. More strength and stability gives you more to swing with. How much of that turns into distance depends on you, your swing and your coach.
How often do I need to come in?
Once a week is the standard, and it's exactly what the golf research used: one 20-minute session a week. Your muscles then need about 48 hours to recover, so it fits around your rounds without leaving you stiff on the first tee.
Is it continuous electricity for 20 minutes?
No. The impulse runs for a few seconds while you move, then there's a rest of about four seconds before the next one. As your body gets used to it, those rests gradually get shorter. It's hard work, but it's structured work.
Is EMS safe for me?
For most healthy adults, yes, and every session is supervised one-to-one. Before your first session we go through a short health check. EMS isn't suitable if you have a pacemaker or other implanted electronic device, are pregnant, have epilepsy, or have had recent surgery or an acute illness. If you're unsure, check with your GP first and we'll work around what they say.
I'm in my 60s. Am I too old for this?
No. The main golf study took men aged 18 to 70, and Gerard is in his 60s and still trains on EMS himself. Because you're not lifting heavy weights, it's easy on the joints, which is exactly why older golfers like it.
What do I wear?
You train in a fitted EMS training garment under the wireless miha bodytec suit. The garment is bought separately; we'll sort it out with you at your first session. Just bring water and a towel.
Start with a trial session.
Come in, try the suit, feel what a golf-specific EMS session does. A proper look at your body and your swing for €30.