Mike Pedersen has been a fitness trainer of 24 years, who studied the golf swing and applied this knowledge into his best-selling golf fitness dvds, golf training manual, the first online golf fitness memberships site over 6 years ago, and now his unique, just-released golf stretching dvd that sold over 800 copies the first week.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology of Exercise from Oregon State University. Mike's certification goes back over 24 years. The most recent ten years have been with golfers.

Mike is the golf fitness professional for Golf Magazine's site GolfOnline.com and for Golf Illustrated.com. He has produced over 500 articles on the topice of fitness and golf that have been seen various publications and sites (including Pub Links Golfer, Orange County Register, Arizona Golfer,and Men's Health), journals and newspapers worldwide.

Mike was panel exper for many radio shows specifically geated to golfers, such as ESPN Radio, Pure Golf with Peter Kessler, and ,most recently a consistent spot with his own segment for Tee Time On The Gulf Coast with host Randy Burgan. Mr. Pedersen did a podcast that has been downloaded tens of thousands of times with Golf Smarter, which is the top podcast company for golf on the Apple Itunes site.

Competitive Athletics To Golf

Mike's sports background goes back over thirty years, with a specialty in Track. He earned rankings in the Pac 10 for the javelin, as well as national rankings between 1982 through 1987. Mike achieved All Pacific 10 Conference in 1983.

Post graduation from OSU, he took up the decathlon event where he became nationally ranked for Canada between 1987 through 1989. Mike was top 6 in rankings, and the top 3 went on to the Olympics.

When he retired from track-and-field Mike started to play golf. He took on golf as he had done with track. "I purchased every book, training video, and took lessons from different teachers specifically to learn as much as I could, from as many people as I could to gain a better understanding of the mechanics of the swing."

Mike golf improvement in less than 2 years was impressive. He achieved a 6 handicap, and had gotten his driving distance up to almost 300 yards consistently!)

Golf Fitness Author and Coach

Mike has given over two dozen seminars on golf fitness to golfers of all ages, as well as golf pros. He is the author of the best-selling ebook, The Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide.

The point of all this ...

The above information is not presented to impress you, but to reassure you Mike Pedersen has an extensive background as an athlete and successful golf fitness trainer.

The golf fitness information, programs, articles, tips and techniques presented on his web sites are based on years of experience and designed to help golfers of all ages and abilitites achieve optimal golf performance.