What Real Power Actually Means
According to Titleist Performance Institute (TPI), power isn’t just about how fast you move the club. It’s about how effectively your body:
- Generates force
- Transfers it through the hips and trunk
- Sequence your body components
That’s why two golfers with the same swing speed can hit the ball very different distances… and why one keeps getting sore while the other doesn’t.
Power Declines With Age: Unless You Train It Properly
TPI research highlights something many golfers quietly notice but rarely understand:
- Loss of distance isn’t inevitable.
- Loss of power is optional.
- Power does naturally decline with age, unless it’s trained intelligently.
- Golfers who maintain distance later in life aren’t swinging harder.
- They’re simply better at producing power relative to their body and age.
The challenge?
Most golfers have no idea where they sit on that spectrum, unless you get measured!
This is Where Power Testing Changes Everything
A TPI Power Assessment doesn’t guess.
It shows us:
- How powerful you are compared to golfers your age
- Whether your lower body is doing its job
- If your upper body is compensating
- Where speed training will help — or hurt
In short, it answers a crucial question:
Is your body ready to produce more speed safely?
BEFORE YOU CHASE SPEED Before You Train Fast, You Need to Be Ready
Without adequate power capacity and control, golfers often experience:
2. Hip or rib pain
3. Elbow and wrist overload
4. Inconsistent contact and timing
At PEAK Golf Athlete, we don’t chase speed first.
We build the engine before flooring the accelerator.
We want to deem you safe before you begin overspeeding training.
We want to ensure you don’t return to us in PAIN, by trying to chase PERFORMANCE.
What the TPI Power Assessment Actually Tells You
We assess:
- Lower body power (your main engine)
- Rotational power (how force moves through your trunk)
- Upper body contribution (often overworked when the lower body underperforms)
- Control and repeatability
From this, we answer three key questions:
- Can you create power?
- Can you control power?
- Can you repeat power, round after round?
BEFORE YOU CHASE SPEED Why This Matters for Your Golf
Golfers who understand their power profile:
Train smarter, not harder
Reduce injury risk
Make better swing changes
When Overspeed Training Is Appropriate
You’re Working Hard. So What’s Missing?
If you’ve ever thought:
“I’m working so hard… why am I not getting longer?”
The answer might not be your swing.
It might be your power profile.
And that’s exactly what the TPI Power Assessment is designed to reveal.
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