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Golf fitness items to keep your 2024 New Year’s resolutions

Do your best to stay healthy so you can spend as much time as possible on the golf course in 2024!

Welcome to 2024! It’s another year, and that means it’s time to set goals for the next 360 days or so.

Many people decide around this time of year that it’s time to get into shape and pay more attention to their health. Golfers can do the same!

Fitness and physical health are incredibly important when you’re trying to shoot lower scores.

So, we’ve decided to put together a list of some fantastic golf fitness items from brands like WHOOP, Therabody, Hyperice and more.

Check out some of our other equipment lists here: Best golf beanies for fall and winter golf | Best jackets for cold-weather golf | Best golf hoodies

How do you recover from golf travel? Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and a PGA Tour therapist have tips

To win at Royal Liverpool, golfers need to have their bodies primed for competition, and that starts with recovery.

Driving from Los Angeles Country Club in California to TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, covers 3,055 miles and would, according to Google Maps, take you about 58 hours to complete by car.

Needless to say, after Rory McIlroy lost the U.S. Open by one shot to Wyndham Clark, emptied his locker and packed his bags on Sunday, he was not hitting the road and driving to the following week’s Travelers Championship. McIlroy stayed in Los Angeles that night, had a few glasses of red wine with dinner and headed to bed before flying east on Monday morning. However, the four-time major winner went home to Florida instead of Connecticut to see his family, get some rest and recover.

“I try to get into the time zone where I’m going as quickly as possible,” McIlroy said Wednesday evening at TPC River Highlands. “I didn’t do a good job of that on Monday night because I started watching TV, and all of a sudden it was midnight [in Florida] and it was 9 p.m. back there and I didn’t feel tired.”

Many of the game’s best players have descended upon Royal Liverpool Golf Club after flying across Asia, Africa, and Europe. They have come from Australia, South America and North America too, and must recover quickly to be at their best on Thursday and contend for the Claret Jug.

More: 2023 British Open scoreboard, video and more

Father’s Day Gift Guide: Best personalized golf gifts for dad

Nobody is quite like dad, so get him something personal…that he will actually use on the golf course.

Father’s Day is right around the corner which means it’s time to get your orders in if you want to gift dad a custom gift.

Believe it or not, the world of customizable golf gifts is much larger than just golf balls. We’ve found golf bags, accessories, apparel and more to help you knock your gift(s) out of the park this year.

If you’re looking for more, we’ve got you covered with a full Father’s Day list as well as our favorite golf shoes, polos, hats, sunglasses, and more. Looking to make a big ticket purchase? Check out our reviews of the Callaway Paradym, TaylorMade Stealth 2, the Titleist TSR line, and others to make sure you get dad a club he’ll love.

New Year’s resolutions for golfers — and how to keep them

In 2023, I will improve my golf game through …

New Year’s resolutions. We all make them, yet we almost all fail to keep them.

It’s time to change that. Make 2023 the year you follow through on your goals. What better place to start than on the golf course?

Here at Golfweek, we’ve put together a list of what we think are important New Year’s resolutions for your game. From increasing distance to improving short game and fitness, we’ve compiled not just what to do, but how to do it to help you achieve your goals.

If you’re looking for a deeper dive into golf fitness, check out Averee Dovsek’s gym guide.

Golfweek’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide: 8 gifts for the gym-obsessed in your foursome

Golfweek’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide: 8 gifts for the gym-obsessed in your foursome

Are you or someone on your holiday shopping list itching to improve their golf fitness? Golfweek has rounded up items ranging from training aids, fitness tools, recovery technology and fashion to help with your holiday shopping.

In case you missed it, catch up with Golfweek’s holiday gift guide for 2022. Check back through December as we break down all the best holiday gifts for golfers including extending your golf season and items for the serious golfer.

Check out some fitness tips to help jumpstart or continue your journey from our video series, “Fitness with Averee.”

2022 Gift Guides: Men’s Apparel | Women’s Apparel | Shoes

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ heart rate data from thrilling win over Bills

#Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes uses WHOOP’s Strap 3.0 fitness tracker and his heart rate data from Sunday’s thrilling win over the #Bills is fascinating. | from @TheJohnDillon

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The metrics of the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Buffalo Bills in the divisional round of the playoffs are still coming out this week.

Advanced fitness and health wearable company WHOOP, which has been tracking Patrick Mahomes’ heart rate all season, shared insights into the star quarterback’s remarkable performance with new data sets released on Wednesday. In WHOOP’s release, they noted that Mahomes’ heart rate spiked at some interesting moments in the game, and referenced a tweet from the quarterback’s trainer:

“[As] shared by Mahomes’ trainer Bobby Stroupe on Twitter, Mahomes’ [heart rate] spiked when he was on the sideline watching Buffalo make their game-changing plays, and then also immediately after Mahomes made his clutch plays. His HR was low in the huddle and pre-snap, allowing his body and mind to be in a clear ‘flow state’ – helping him be at his best with the game on the line.”

WHOOP went on to break the numbers down further, detailing some of the key moments by the numbers on their monitor:

  • Average heart rate: 144 beats per minute (bpm).
  • Peak heart rate: 191 bpm during his first-quarter rushing TD.
  • Low heart rate: 79 bpm.

From 8:27 pm (1:54 left in the game) to 8:55 pm, Mahomes’ heart rate never dipped below 144 bpm. On Mahomes’ 64-yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill (1:02 left in the game), his heart rate spike to 171 bpm when the Chiefs took a 33-29 lead. When the Bills took the 36-33 lead (13 seconds remaining) Mahomes’ heart rate was in the ‘flow state’ again. However, when Harrison Butker kicked the game-tying field goal, Mahomes’ heart rate shot up to 162 bpm.

Whoop also included Mahomes’ physical output and strain during the win, right down to the number of calories burned in the masterful performance.

“In total, Mahomes’ activity strain during the game was 18.8 with 2,347 calories burned, and his day strain was 20.4 (on a 0-21 scale). Over the 28 minutes of real-time spanning the frantic end of regulation and OT, his average heart rate was nearly 160 bpm.”

If there was any doubt that Mahomes left it all on the field against Buffalo, the numbers certainly seem to point toward full exertion in a remarkable effort to win one of the toughest matchups of his career.

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The Business of Golf: How Whoop uses technology to help Tour players improve

Golfweek offers an in-depth look at how Whoop is changing the way golfers track their sleep, recovery, and strain to improve their game.

In the second part of our Business of Golf series, sponsored by Verizon, Golfweek offers an in-depth look at how Whoop is changing the way professional and recreational golfers track their sleep, recovery, and strain to better improve their game.

The PGA Tour named Whoop as its official wearable. As you might recall, the PGA Tour and Whoop, a Boston-based performance tracking and analytics company, teamed up to provide players, caddies and Tour officials with more than 1,000 Whoop 3.0 straps.

Several players had been wearing the straps on their wrist or biceps to track their workouts, recovery and sleep.

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To see more of the series, click here.

Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas among Whoop Series E financing investors

Two of golf’s biggest stars join Kevin Durant, Patrick Mahomes and venture capital funds in financing the performance-tracking company.

What do Kevin Durant, Patrick Mahomes, Larry Fitzgerald, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas have in common? 

Along with several venture capital funds, Whoop has announced they are private investors in a $100-million round of Series E funding for the human-performance company now valued at $1.2 billion.

In addition to McIlroy and Thomas, several professional golfers, including Billy Horschel and Xander Schauffele, began wearing a Whoop band either on their wrist or around their biceps in 2019. Whoop measures the wearer’s heart rate hundreds of times per second, and when paired with a smartphone app it reveals how hard an athlete has worked by measuring strain. Whoop also tracks how long the wearer sleeps, how restorative that sleep is and how recovered the wearer is when he or she wakes up.

Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy typically wears his Whoop 3.0 strap around his left biceps. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Series E funding is rare and typically occurs when a company wants to stay private for an extended period and delay going public for various reasons.

Appearing on Golfweek’s Forward Press podcast in April, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the United States and many other parts of the world to shut down, Whoop founder and CEO Will Ahmed said data the strap collects may be able to determine that a user is sick before the individual becomes symptomatic. 

Whoop 3.0 strap
Whoop 3.0 strap (Whoop)

Two months later Whoop gained notoriety when Nick Watney woke up Friday morning before the second round of the RBC Heritage and his Whoop revealed his respiratory rate overnight had spiked. Respiratory rate is the number of times you breathe, something Whoop tracks, and studies showed Whoop wearers who see a significant increase in respiratory rate often are asymptomatically carrying the coronavirus. After requesting that the PGA Tour test him before he played, it was confirmed Watney had COVID-19. 

Nick Watney
Nick Watney, wearing a blue Whoop 3.0 strap on his right wrist, in January 2020 (Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports)

The following week at the Travelers Championship, the PGA Tour announced a partnership with Boston-based Whoop and made bands available to all players, caddies and many tournament officials.

In the weeks that followed, Whoop partnered with the LPGA and Symetra tours as well.

According to a release, Whoop has hired more than 200 people in 2020 and has over 330 employees. It has raised more than $200 million to date.

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LPGA, Symetra Tour players to get Whoop straps

To help professional women golfers track their fitness and monitor potential COVID-19 risks, the LPGA Tour is partnering with Whoop.

The LPGA tour announced on Friday that several partners are assisting the tour with its plans to restart professional women’s golf in the United States. Cambia Health Solutions is providing masks to players, caddies and staff members, and Global Rescue is providing medical advisory support to players who are competing in tournaments. Among the other brands mentioned is a new partner, Whoop, a Boston-based company that has become a major presence in the world of golf over the past year.

Whoop is providing LPGA and Symetra Tour players, caddies and staffers with Whoop 3.0 straps. The PGA Tour partnered with Whoop in June to get straps for its players, caddies and staff members, as well as individuals on the Korn Ferry Tour.

Whoop’s 3.0 strap can be worn on a person’s wrist or biceps and it holds a small electronic sensor. The waterproof sensor measures your heart rate over 100 times per second and the amount of strain that your body endures throughout the day. It also measures the quality of your sleep, and over time, Whoop’s algorithms reveal how efficiently your heart and body are working using a free smartphone app. It also measures how much rest you need to recover from the previous day and more.

After studying user-submitted data during the COVID-19 pandemic, Whoop researchers learned that a person’s respiratory rate (how often they breathe as they sleep) often spikes if they become infected with the virus.

Nick Watney saw his Whoop indicated an elevated respiratory rate on the Friday morning of the RBC Heritage and while he felt only mild symptoms, seeing that number encouraged him to get tested before the tournament’s second round. Watney tested positive and withdrew from the event.

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EXCLUSIVE! After a sudden spike in his respiratory rate data raised immediate concern, Pro Golfer @nick_watney became the first player on the @pgatour to be diagnosed with #COVID19. ⁣ ⁣ We are thrilled to have Nick Watney join @willahmed on this special edition of the WHOOP Podcast to discuss for the first time how his data led him to get test for the virus and how he hopes sharing his story can help someone else stay safe. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ “People have asked me, ‘If you had no symptoms, why did you get tested?’,” Nick says, “It’s because of the WHOOP data.”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Swipe up in our story to listen now or catch up later on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Alexa, and more. WHOOP is wishing Nick and all those impacted but he COVID-19 virus a safe and speedy recovery. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #whywhoop⁣⁣ #pgatour

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On the LPGA tour, Jessica Korda, Nelly Korda and Christina Kim are among the players who already wear a Whoop strap. On the men’s side, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Billy Horschel and Rickie Fowler were among the players who wore a Whoop strap before the company partnered with the PGA Tour.

Wearing a Whoop 3.0 strap will not stop someone from contracting COVID-19. But, if it can alert golfers and other people who are asymptomatic but still carrying the virus, golf’s governing bodies want athletes and the people around them to wear the device.

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