About Body Balance
The main objective of Body Balance for Performance is to focus on the golfer’s body and how it affects his or her golf swing.
How did Body Balance for Performance® Begin?
The History
The history of Body Balance for Performance® can be traced back to the early 1980s when scientific studies were conducted to precisely measure muscle activity during the golf swing. This research identified the muscles that are most involved in the golf swing, and discovered precisely how they work together. This information then helped to determine why injuries sometimes occur during the golf swing.
By understanding, through research, how the body and the golf swing are related, Body Balance for Performance® has positioned its trainers as leaders in the industry. Our founder, Dr. Paul Callaway saw those relationships early on in his work on the Tour. With the information he gained there, Body Balance for Performance was born. Our mission is to change the way golfers improve their golf by dealing with the fundamental body issues that get in the way of a consistent, repeatable golf swing ensuring that the golf swing does not put the golfer at risk for injury.
Where We Are
Currently there are 34 Body Balance Centers across the United States. Click here to start your road to better golf through a better body. Find a center near you.
The Owners
David Ostrow, PT, GPS, CGFI-MP3
President, Body Balance for Performance, Inc
He has been a physical therapist for more than 22 years. David is considered by many to be an expert in the golf fitness industry. David has spent his career developing a well defined and effective approach for restoring the human body to full function. His eclectic approach to the body comes from his diverse training with many of the leaders in physical therapy education.
Ostrow has taken what he learned from the masters and has created a complete clinical system, integrating it into Body Balance for Performance. This system leverages the best from the neuro-developmental, functional movement, biomechanical and orthopedic disciplines to create an approach that helps golfer deal with the issues in their bodies that cause dysfunction, pain, and challenges in golf.
Ostrow has published articles on the body and the golf swing in a variety of journals including PGA Magazine, Golf Illustrated, Advance Magazine, and news papers across the US. Ostrow is a professor of Golf Illustrated University (GIU). At GIU he authored courses on injury prevention in golf. He also has articles and tips regularly published in Philly Golfer, and the GAP website. In 2004 he co-authored the book, The Body and the Golf Swing with three PGA Professionals. This book looks at the commons swing issues seen by golf instructors and outlines the physical causes for these problems. The book is the back bone of a course that David teaches to PGA Teaching Professionals called the Body and the Golf Swing.
David is involved in research on the body and the golf swing with several top 100 teachers and with MIT. He is interested in proving many of the relationships that exist between the body and the golf swing. David is a member of the Titleist Performance Institute’s Medical Advisory Board. He is excited to be a part of that team and hope to make great contributions to the health and well-being of golfers.
All of this activity is designed to help Ostrow fulfill his mission of helping golfers and the golf industry understand the body and swing relationships, and to use this data in changing how the world approaches golf learning.
Fran Rosario,
Vice President, Body Balance for Performance
Fran Rosario has been employed by Body Balance for Performance as Vice President of Sales and Marketing since January 2005. From February 2004 to January 2005, Mr. Rosario was a consultant for Body Balance for Performance as well as Max Exchange Company out of Marlton, NJ, developing sales programs and training sales representatives. Prior to these consulting Agreements, Mr. Rosario held the position of National Sales Director for 3 years at Xanadu International based in Las Vegas, NV. While there, he built a distributor force of over five thousand agents and created the company compensation plan. Mr. Rosario also spent seventeen years of his professional sales career in the financial services industry with half of those years as a Regional Vice President responsible for recruiting and training and developing hundreds of managers and sales representatives.
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