The 18STRONG Podcast

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest Matt Palazzolo from Golf and Body NYC. When looking at the differences and similarities of training junior and professional, as well as younger and older athletes, Matt is the perfect guest to have on with his background and experience. In this episode, Matt dives into several different ways of training and methodologies, quality over quan...

Highlights from this Episode We start out with a Superbowl wrap-up and highlights, from our favorite food and beer to Patrick Mahomes and speculating on his future, to one last PGA show comment we forgot to mention last week on the use of nets when trying out clubs and how it can skew what you think your performance will be. “Enter the Kettlebell” on Amazon Prime: The amazing (albeit slightly date...

This week Tony and I are catching up on the current world of golf and my thoughts post-PGA show before diving into the “Shouts From The Crowd” questions from our listeners. Highlights from this Episode The insanity that is the PGA Show, what new technology looks like it is going to pave the way for the golf landscape in 2020, what just fell flat, and how almost everything has some vari...

Dr. Joe LaCaze is a retired Navy Seal and Seal instructor and after his retirement from the Navy Seals, Joe got his degree in chiropractic as well as many other certifications and specializations in learning about the body, how it works, and how to improve people’s ability to move, heal, and train. He is the inventor of ROTEXMotion which is the culmination of his experience of years and thousands...

This week I am once again joined by my buddy Tony Soaib for a Q&A episode where we talk about random topics ranging from . . . the importance of deadlines, the golf handicap system (how Tony thinks it’s broken and the 3 options he would like to see implemented that he thinks would be more fair and competitive. We also touch on the topic of bulking up and it’s relation to flexibility. Is...

This week we’re talking with Jonathan Avalos, a golf fitness professional from Charlotte, NC. Jonathan is the owner of Athletic Golf Fitness, as you’ll hear in today’s interview, his philosophies and approach to training are very much along the same lines that we have here at 18Strong. Jonathan encourages you to bring more of your natural athletic ability to the golf game in order to g...

This week I am once again joined by my buddy Tony Soaib where we have a bit more of a laid back style chat taking some questions from the audience and social media and hopefully giving some answers. It is the new year so today we talk about resolutions: our thoughts on the idea around resolutions and what are our goals are for the next year. We also talk about realistic and unrealistic expectation...

Happy New Year 2020! This week, to celebrate the new year, we have on Nutrition specialist, Jason Phillips from iN3 Nutrition and the founder of the Nutritional Consulting Institute. Jason is a wealth of knowledge, but also has a background in golf from playing some of the mini-tour and working with PGA professionals on not only their nutrition, fitness, and training. He travels the world educatin...

This week, we have my buddy Adam Betz, PGA professional and owner of the Family Golf and Learning Center (FGLC) on the show. Adam is changing the face of golf in St. Louis with his renovation of FGLC. What used to be a bit of a run-down old driving range is quickly becoming the premier practice facility in the midwest. In today’s episode, we share some exciting news of a partnership brewing...

This week, we’re going to mix it up with our very first in-person interview with my buddy Tony Soaib. Tony is a world-class Strength Coach and Nutritional Expert that has worked with professionals at the highest level of sport, military, and business. This is Tony’s 2nd time on the show ( Episode 140 ). Tony and I work together on a daily basis and he has been an integral advisor for me and...

Over the course of 260 plus episodes on topics ranging from golf and fitness to mental game, diet, and nutrition, and many other topics revolving around the health and well being of golfer, there has been a lot of information to take in. In a world where information is overly abundant and can many times be contradictory or downright confusing, sometimes it’s important to take a step back and...

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest Hayden Buckley. Hayden is a professional golfer who played on the Mackenzie Tour (Canadian PGA Tour) last year winning his spot as the sixth order of merit, which will get him onto the third stage of Q-School, which is going on next week. I have worked with Hayden as his fitness coach for about a year and a half and it’s been awesome to se...

In this week’s episode, we are talking with Corey Conners, PGA tour winner of the Valero Texas Open 2019. Corey had an incredible year on Tour in 2019, starting the year with almost no status. He went on to Monday qualify into multiple PGA Tour events including the Valero Texas Open which he went on to win, locking up his tour card for another 2 years. But that wasn’t the end of his ru...

Today we are talking with, Nic Catterall a high-performance coach specializing in both musculoskeletal therapy and strength and conditioning for golfers on the PGA tour. Some of his players include Dylan Frittelli, Chris Kirk, Kyle Stanley, Luke List, and several others. Nic is a little different than other medical professionals we’ve had on the show in that he does both the fitness/conditioning f...

Corey Lundberg has consistently been recognized as one of the best young teachers in America and one of the top teachers in Texas. The work that he and his team at Altus are doing is regarded very highly in the world of golf. Their coaching program has attracted some of the top talents in the golf world. Between the incredible facility they have access to at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, Tex...

Today we have on the 2019 US Senior Amateur Champion, Bob Royak, winning the title just a few months ago back in August at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, NC. Bob is a regular guy with a regular job but plays very high competitive golf. In many ways, he is much like you. He can’t dedicate 7 days a week to practice or get to the gym like the PGA and Champions Tour players do, but Bob has a great s...

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest, Matt Ginella. This week we are talking all about creating and designing a buddy’s trip. When going on some sort of big or small group golf travel event, it’s important to know the do’s and don’ts which is why I’ve brought on our good buddy Matt Ginella. I just recently had my buddy’s trip in Kansas City and I was the captain so I learned...

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest, PGA Tour Pro Scott Harrington. Often we are asked “what exactly is 18STRONG and what does it mean?” And, to be honest, sometimes I have trouble explaining that. In the broadest form, we are an online golf fitness company. But if you’ve been following 18STRONG for a while, you know there’s a lot more to it than that. We like to...

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest, Matt Cardis, founder of Golf in Your State and The Golf Wall Project . We often hear the term “growing the game” on social media, and TV coverage, but to be honest, it’s pretty rare that we see new initiatives for growing the game that are outside the box of the traditional world of golf. But, golf photographer and golf nomadic trav...

Today I am especially excited to have our return special guests, Karl Morris and Gary Nicol. Karl and Gary were on the podcast back in Episode 234 after the release of their best-selling book The Lost Art of Putting. Well, the guys have done it again with their latest book The Lost Art of Playing Golf. The “ Lost Art ” books are unlike any instructional books I’ve ever read and I think...

This week we have Markus Westerberg, author of The Golfer´s Sixth Sense , and world-renowned golf coach with his background in psychology and the behavioral aspects of learning and teaching the game. Markus is a former professional golfer hailing from Sweden who has taken a special interest in the connection between the mind and the mechanics of golf. Typically we talk about one or the other, the...

Today I am especially excited to have on our special guest, Jason Moore from TRUE Linkswear. One of my favorite responsibilities here at the show is finding guests from the world of golf that we know our audience will resonate with. Whether that be a golfer, coach, fitness professional, or brand, my hope is that in some way it is going to provide you some value when you go to the gym, the golf cou...

This week we have Liesbeth “Lizzy” Pauwels, one of the premier golf fitness and yoga instructors in the Netherlands, on to talk about her golf fitness journey and the growing state of golf fitness in Europe as compared to North America. Lizzy was born in Belgium, grew up in Spain, studied at the University of B.C., and is currently in Amsterdam where she has become one of the most prominent golf f...

This week we have a pioneer in the world of golf, John Ashworth, of LINKSOUL. Our mission here at 18Strong is to not only bring you information on exercises, game improvements, and fitness, but also cool people and cool things going on in the things of golf and we have definitely tapped into that this week in our interview with. John now has a history of multiple successes in the golf apparel and...

The title of this episode, “Should You Lower Your Expectations,” might sound a little negative at first. But once you understand how changing your expectations can provide a whole new outlook on how you approach a goal, I promise that by the end of this recording, you will appreciate how this alteration can lead to a more successful outcome. Listen to the full episode here: Resource Mentioned: The...