Golfers will try anything to improve their game and spend outrageous sums of money every year on new balls, clubs, and swing instruction. But what holds back most amateur golfers isn't their equipment or even their swing - it's their fitness. Robust with easy-to-follow fitness and golf tips Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes: Fix Your Swing by Putting Flexibility, Strength, and Stamina in Your Golf Bag (Gotham Books; Trade Paperback Original; On-Sale August 4, 2009; $20.00) by Katherine Roberts explains and corrects the many golf swing flaws that result not from improper technique but from poor physical fitness.

A revolutionary book, Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes offers hope of better golf through direct correlation between swing flaws and the body. With Roberts's help, golfers will be able to identify their swing flaw, uncover their physical restrictions and the connection between the two, and finally discover a solution to the problem.

The Golf Channel's fitness expert, Roberts outlines a precise combination of flexibility and strength training. With tips and step-by-step guidance for warming-up properly, developing a stronger, healthier back and core, obtaining better balance, and longevity in the game, Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes will get any golfer in shape to play their best.

Including swing corrections by the legendary Hank Haney, Roberts's program features:

•Tests to measure baseline stability and mobility.
•The ideal warm-up exercises for golfers.
•Techniques for simultaneously improving posture, balance, and strength.
•Exercises to obtain yoga-quality levels of flexibility.
•Nine of the most common swing flaws, from "coming over the top" to the "chicken wing."
•Exercises designed by Roberts to overcome the physical deficiencies at the root of the problem.
•A full workout program for better back health and stronger core muscles.

Enhanced with one hundred photographs of Roberts performing the exercises, Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes is an invigorating new approach that not only solves age-old golfing woes but enables you to become a healthier, more vibrant person on and off the course.

About Gotham Books:
Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was launched in 2003 by industry veteran William Shinker. Bestsellers that have helped to establish its solid foundation are Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Game of Shadows, The Official eBay™ Bible, The Lucky Shopping Manual, Almost French, Letters to a Young Brother, Letters to a Young Sister, The Miracle of St. Anthony, The Tao of Willie, It's Called Work for a Reason, Do You, The House of Mondavi, Every Shot Must Have a Purpose, How Starbucks Saved My Life, Body Drama, Always By My Side and I Can Has Cheezburger. Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Gotham Books, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin, Penguin Press, Philomel, Riverhead Books, and Viking, among others. Penguin Group is owned by Pearson plc, the international media group.

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