Welcome back to Linked by Golf, the podcast exploring the
journeys of people linked by the game.
I'm your host, Josh McGuire, and this week I'm joined by Colin
Dixon, a successful fitness coach whose love of the game has
led him to training golfers alongside his other customers.
In this episode, we discussed Colin's journey into fitness as
a career from IT, his experiences in playing the game
and has worked with hundreds of people to support their own
health and fitness journey. Let's go over to Colin, Colin
Dixon, great to have you in the podcast.
Did you ever think you'd be on a golf podcast talking about
fatness? Never Ross not I don't think I'd
ever be on a podcast, never mind a G1 talking about fatness.
Thanks for having me, much appreciated.
Yeah, no problem at all. It's great to have you on the
call. And I mean, we've known each
other for probably the best part is 35 years or what I thought.
I was going to say, I had that in my head.
That was about 35 years. Scary, scary.
You know what? It might even be more than that
because you joined the Golf Club when you were 89.
I was 8 and my dad got me and and to Caldwell Park and yeah,
so it must be just about 35 years.
Now we're going to tell a tailor your skill.
It's all moved on. If no, but I'm already insane at
one point, you're in the wrong age category.
Yes, yes, that, that will get my dad into trouble now.
And I think he actually doctored my age and to get the end when I
was 8 and I had me down as as 10, yeah.
Well, we've all moved on now, calling us all get this whole
war under the bridge. But then just talking about
golf, corn with Jump Street and there was your dad that go,
yeah, they came. Where did you get going?
Very much so, yes. And obviously you know my dad
very well as well, and one of the probably the keenest golfers
you'll ever meet in your life practices more than anyone you
know, I'm sure. I get prices more than VJ
saying. 100% and so yeah, he got me any goal from a very early
age. First gotten my first set of
clubs, not like it was or as now.
Where do you get the junior sets?
It was all cut down, the irons and five irons and yeah, Optic
Oval Park to play. Brilliant.
And then calling, what about Koval Park is a place?
What was that like for you when you were a kid and grown up and
some of the characters over there?
That was great and you know yourself and a great bunch of
junior golfers and made a really good junior team and back in the
day and then you know yourself and just just a great bunch to
play with and great growing up. Summer holidays, getting dropped
off at 9 O clock in the morning, getting packed up at 8-9 O clock
at night when I get dark. We just spent the full summer
there, you know? Yeah, definitely what it has
like nowadays with laptops and iPods and stuff.
We just played golf all the time, don't we?
Yeah, absolutely. And then Colin, we're on here to
talk about your personal training and fatness world that
you don't know. But I don't know if you just
talk about where you were before you got into fatness because I
know the hash trade. But there wasn't just a straight
line from being untrusted in golf and sports.
Novice and straight on the fatness, was it?
No, no. So I would originally qualified
in IT. So I'd worked in IT for eight or
nine years and as I've told you many times and didn't
particularly enjoy it, if I'm being honest.
And then yeah, something happened to me.
So when I was, I was 30 when I eventually transferred over into
personal training. So that's just that's just me
now nearly in my 16th year and I'd actually helped a friend to
get into shape and because I'd always been into the gym, but
I'd helped a friend get into shape for that wedding.
And then I just thought I really enjoyed that.
Like she just the boys of helping somebody was a better
way get fatter and stronger. And at the time, you know, I'm
loving myself, no kids, no family.
There's very much like, you know, do it now.
You make the times fair. No, or it's or it's never going
to happen. And so ended up doing my PT
course at the same time I was working an old job and at Dell
and computers. And then 68 months later, I was
on the jump floor. Wow, and that's funny.
I mean, you were fairness is huge now and I guess it's always
been grown. It's never, it's not just come
out of the the blue completely, but I mean, 16 years ago Corner
wasn't a lot of people working in fitness.
So what was it like making that jump?
When I look back now, you know, it's, it's terrifying, you know,
and because like you say, personal training wasn't even
that big a thing 16 years ago, like when I've been in my first
Gen. and there was only one other personal trainer there.
You walk out national Gen. now that might be sex of it personal
trainers, but I guess I was I was kind of fortunate in a way
that you know, I had I had more in house.
I stayed in old flat and what not making a go over just wasn't
an option. You know, you still had dead
bells to pay and you know that wee bit of money saved up from
old job, but it was a case of right, I've got to go running
here, so I've got to make a go with us.
And so I was, I've been at the DW Sports in the September of
2010 and it probably took me to about the February 2011 to
really get up and running and get a decent client base.
And by that point I was, I was really sort of up and running.
Yeah. And what was it like back then?
So I know these days you're doing a lot of stuff online, but
what was it like back then in terms of people coming to see
you? So it was all in person then
there was no online and there was no apps.
There's all, you know, all my programs were all done old skill
and a bat of paper and and getting clients in the beginning
was tough. You've got to go up.
And it's not like online when you can just message or you
know, DM someone. You've got to go and approach
someone in the gym, you know, So someone's walking away on a
treadmill or on a chess press machine.
You've actually got to walk up and, and just start a
conversation with them, try and get talking to them and OfferUp
the sessions to try and show you know what you're you know, what
your training styles like and how good I thought you would be.
But yeah, that that was definitely the hardest part of
the job was just approaching strangers for months on end.
And I was just going to ask, just thinking there, do you
think golf helped with that at all?
Possibly, yeah. Yeah.
Because you know what it's like, you know, you're playing with
different people, you know, in competitions each week.
You're playing with people that you didn't, that you don't
necessarily know. I think my last job, if I'm
being honest, and but Dale helped me as well.
And although I didn't particularly enjoy the job, like
just being able to speak to and communicate with people, and had
I not had that experience, I might have found that a bit
harder. And so that was the one thing
that I could kind of transfer over from old Korea and was
basically how to how to deal with people, how to approach
people, how to speak to different types of people.
Yeah, absolutely. And then in terms of what you're
doing, I call and I mean you've talked about how you go into it.
So just talk about what movie issue for as well.
I still get the same buzz now, like I just, I just love like
helping people like I just, I, yeah, I just, I love, you know,
my, my clients reaching their goals.
You know, I wait for my check insurance at the weekend now and
I still get the same buzz as I did, you know, 16 years ago when
I just started. So I don't think that'll ever
leave me or even though and I'm working online and I'm in person
a point even more yeah Buzz now than I did, you know, from from
when I first started out. And The thing is, and it might
be obvious to a lot of people, but not always, I think that may
be the perception that you're just telling what for what to
do. But your own fatness, I mean,
just talk folks through what kind of routine you get through
yourself. And some of the, I know you've
been doing hydrox and things like that.
So I'd love you to talk the folks through what you actually
do yourself in a week. So I suppose it changes and with
the seasons. And so over the last couple of
years during the winter time, I've been training for, for the
high rocks race, which is, which is actually two weeks today and
Glasgow. So this is my, my thought High
Rocks race at that Glasgow last year and that Dublin and
November last year. And so my, it almost replaces
the golf during the winter, which is what I love about it.
So it's quite intense and you know, 5 or 6 days a week over
the winter training and then once that's done it just fits in
perfect with the start of the golf season.
So come April my training will switch a little bit and it won't
be 5 or 6 days, it may only be maybe 3 days in the gym because
I'll be playing more golf and golf really becomes my focus
then heading into the the spring and the summer.
And what kind of things are involved in the high rocks for
anybody that's never come across?
So that so the race itself as an 8 single kilometre runs with
there's 8 stations in between and so there's a ski, ski, egg
sled push, sled pull. But people jumps, roar, farmers
carries walking lunges, wall balls.
Do you know what? It's great.
I love it and it's it's so addictive and absolute torture
when you're doing it at the time when I was halfway around one of
the laps, the running laps at Dublin, I'm like, I am never
doing this ever again. And and here I'm four or five
months later ready for my next race.
But the thing I love about the training is that not, there's
not 2 days of the same and your week.
So it's completely different from like you're, you're, you're
going to the gym and doing your two or three or four strength
sessions per week. Each day is different.
So like a Monday might be your first strength day, a Tuesday
I'll be like a raw, a long run. So like yesterday, my long run
day, you're out doing maybe 10 to 3013 K.
You then then mate do like a high Rock specific training day
where you're practicing your stations and just getting your
technique right and practicing what's called your compromised
runs, which is basically running on.
Then your legs are on fire. Oh no.
Which is a huge part of the training.
And then you may have another day that's doing some short
total track runs. So no two days are the same and
that's what I really enjoy about it now.
And you, so the competition is all inside and that, but you're
trained inside and outside, right?
Yeah, I do all my my running. I try to do all my running
outside. But the in Glasgow, it's in the
old SCCC building. All right, That's what that he
says. Yeah.
And so you're basically running around the arena.
I can't remember. It's a fear for laps as your 1
kilometer and then you're your next station.
And you do that eight times, we're doing the stuff in
between. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so, yeah, but I've got my client and who's my partner,
double S partner. So, so we do the Max double S
and she's got to do all the guys weights.
So there's definitely weight categories, you know.
But the Max double S, all the females have got to do the guy's
weights. So she's like, she's crazier
than me. I'm not saying something.
Yeah. So we're ready to go on that.
But on the Countdown now two weeks today as as race day.
Blowing all the best for that and Colin that's a great, great
step on the war we're talking about today in more detail as
well as you mentioned the golf there so you get high docks
training obviously training people all the time all year
round. But now you've been able to
start combining thus more specifically worth golf.
And I'm sure you look, you get friends that are golfers, you've
known people that are golfers for years.
I'm sure you've trained them for fatness.
But now you've started working with Lanarkshire Golf
Association. So I'd love if you'd just talk
about that and take the last news through how you're helping
the younger kids get into fitness for for golf
specifically and actually more broadly.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's came about
probably the autumn time and last year and a man that both of
us know really, really well and Ian Rankin from Caldwell Park
and had, he's still involved with Lanarkshire Golf.
He'd contacted me and asked if I'd been interested in coaching
some of the young kids through the winter time, basically just
to do a winter program to try and get them fatter and stronger
and heading into the what's now coming up to the 2026 season.
So obviously something I'm really passionate about and you
know, as long as we could make the times work, it was an
absolute noble enough for me. And so eventually got in contact
with the the junior convenor and Kenny McLean and Lanarkshire and
I think maybe the secretary as well.
And then we had a good chat about it and then yeah, but we
got everything sorted. So we started start of October,
maybe run up to Christmas and now we've got hard to believe.
I think we've only got 5 sessions left.
So it's actually tonight. So Wednesday night that we that
we do the sessions. I've got 4-4 junior golfers and
then it's been brilliant like just working through each
different phase with them. So but actually duty start a new
phase of sort of training tonight.
But we're working on mobility strength and a lot of core work,
a lot of rotational work and in a lot of like kind of expose of
power. Right, brilliant.
So then calling in terms of each part, like I've been listening
to obviously yourself over the years, but other podcasts and
stuff about mobility and and hearing stuff a bit like
stretching and you've got the sort of common laypersons
understanding of all my bad stuff.
I need to start stretching. And I was listening to one
particular with a group over in America and they were talking
about you. That's just not going to work
basically. So I'd love you to talk about
how you would tackle helping people be more mobile, even for
younger kids. It's just a huge part of, of
training mobility and you know, I guess that's just doesn't even
with, with kids or with golfers, obviously the population as a
whole. And you know, if I could pull
the average person from the street, you'll probably find of
getting really, really tight hips and really weak and really
weak hamstrings and glutes. What do we spend most of our
days doing? We sat down or sitting at a desk
or sitting in a car or sitting watching TV.
So you got haps of constantly getting tighter and tighter.
And that's why I think no nowadays as well, you people
with lower back problems, constantly sitting down, tight
hip flexors, weak hamstrings and glutes lead to lower back
problems. And I'm pretty confident that if
someone came to me and said, listen, I've got my lower back,
it's given me a few problems that if I gave them some
properly structured, for example, deadlifts and some hip
stretches and told them to go in and do that for six or eight
weeks, they would see a huge improvement.
So yeah, so that the mobility stretches, we always do them at
the start of each session. And then I'm really trying to in
green. And the boys that almost wanted
to do this, like before they go out and play out their own golf,
let's woosen off the hips, let's woosen off the shoulders and the
spine. And so we have a run of maybe
four or five, six exercises that they do at the start of each
session and just to really help with our mobility.
But I mean, and then and actually we'll come back into
that. I've got a few questions or not
and follow up, but I'll see if then we'll go through some of
the other points. Then we touched on strength as
well. So what kind of things would you
see from a strength point of view you'd work with people on
as well? Call.
Yeah. So, you know, it's got to be
full body. OK, so we've got to cover all
the bases. So what I've been doing
predominantly with the with the juniors as that we do four or
five strength exercises. So the two or three upper and
two or three lower, big compound exercises.
So no, no T-shirt muscle exercises, no bicep cuddles or
anything like that. All big compound exercises, dead
laughs, squats, lunges, you know for the upper half, pull ups,
bench press, overhead press. So if you just take those 65 or
six exercises and give them to just to be anyone and said they
go and try and get stronger than those movements over the next 68
weeks, it's amazing the difference you would feel.
And the thing that I think the part you're stressing there is
of course you want for to do it for the long term and come out
even more in terms of time. But I'd love you talk about
Colin, just the impact it can make from doing something
different and making it regular versus not doing anything at
all. Should, especially as you get
older, I mean, I find it myself and, and you know, you've got
obviously the the the strength and, and just over overall and
like feeling, feeling fatter and stronger and stuff like that.
But I think nose, well, it's it's the whole kind of like
mental side as well. Like, you know, it's amazing.
How much better do you feel after you've done a walkout?
Yeah. And at times I've had clients
and one in one sessions that have commented me not, you know,
not without, you know, rotten day at work, you know, stress
with the kids or the family or whatever.
You'll come in, they'll do the workout and see by the end
they'll always say, God, I feel a million times better now.
Yeah, it's not, it's not just the, it's not just the physical
side, it's the mental side as well.
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And then you talked about rotation as well.
So what do you do with people in terms of rotation?
Really. Well, just in general, but also
related to golf. Yeah.
So, yeah, that's a huge part of it.
That's just so that's just the third block of exercises that we
do and our session. So a lot of cable work.
Cables are fantastic for doing rotational work.
And I do an exercise that was not overly common, but called a
land main rotation, which is basically used in the Olympic
bath to rotate with, but it's mostly cables and bands and
medicine, bold rotations, all that sort of stuff just to
strengthen the core. And, and again, that's, that
wouldn't be just for, for kids, you know, all age groups, all
levels of, of, of, of fitness about they should be doing some
form of core and rotational work.
And I think for people who are maybe like me and not
necessarily going to a gym at all, they could be intimidated.
You'd be going to a gym, seeing a personal trainer.
But what I find really interesting now calling, as you
mentioned the cables there, you mentioned bands, you mentioned
medicine balls. You're not talking massive
weights like Fokin or trying to lift, you know, 150 kilos off
the bat. So I'd love for you to talk
about that in terms of how you can introduce people with OC is
relatively straightforward exercises that just get them
doing what you're talking about and getting them on that
pathway. Yeah, you could do all that
stuff in the house. I mean, COVID completely changed
everyone's outlook on on working out from the house.
I don't have a single client and that worked out from the house
like P COVID. And whereas now, I mean, I must
have at least a dozen clients that do some form of workout in
the house completely changed. And, you know, and it's not
overly expensive to go and grab, you know, to buy some buns and,
you know, a couple of medicine bowls and you could be doing,
you could be doing all of that in the house because I too, I do
totally get the intimidation factor.
But the gem that is, that is a, you know, a big consideration
for a lot of people. And people just like walking.
I think people enjoy walking out in the house as well.
Yeah, and even for myself, I mean, I definitely do more, but
I've bought a band, I've actually got a couple of bands
and I've got a medicine ball and I'm doing really basic things.
But the impact honestly is phenomenal when it comes to, and
I'll, I'll circle back to this, but you mentioned drained prep,
so we'll talk about that in a wee bit more detail later.
But for me, just even using bands before I start for 5-10
minutes, like I'm not getting tennis elbow anymore.
I'm not getting pain when I'm swinging, my arms feel better,
my forearms, my fingers. So it's really incredible the
difference you can make with just a simple change.
And then of course, if you come out with some delay yourself,
that's just going to multiply all the time.
Yeah, and just like you've mentioned it as well, injury
prevention, especially older, you know, it tweaks elbows,
back, shoulders, just keeping other things strong and and do
you know what's in terms of shoulder health?
There's so much you can do with just bands in the house and just
eating top, you know, rotate a cough issues, all that sort of
stuff. And so you don't need loads and
loads of expensive equipment, just like exactly like you said,
you can get by on, you know, some bands and and a couple of
medicine bowls. Absolutely.
And then when you've been working with these golfers, the
young cats and obviously other golfers as well who are clients
anyway, what are the sort of common weaknesses that you see
in terms of your physicality and things that can work on and make
big improvements on really quickly so.
You know, I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say those anything
like particularly with juniors that would differ from from
adults. And back to what I've said, you
know, previously, most people have have, you know, a week
back, weak hamstrings and weak glutes.
And even if you know, even if they are training, most people
will, will probably, you know, go towards more of the muscles
you can see. So they'll be doing bench press,
they'll be doing maybe a shoulder press, they'll be doing
loads of arm work. They might not be doing a huge
amount of leg work and they'll might not be doing a huge amount
of work for the back. So if you take the average
person, and that's where I would concentrate most of the volume
to begin with. I know that's what I did in
making a first block of training and the first sort of 46 weeks.
But the junior golfers was really focused on the back and
the legs. Right.
Yeah. And what kind of changes have
you seen on them? Honestly, the, the, the four of
them, and I hope they watch this podcast and I'm going to say to
them tonight about it because I can't speak highly enough of
them. They've been, they've been
fantastic and they've went away and like done extra stuff out
with our sessions. I've added them all to my app.
So I've gotten them little bits and bobs and programs to do
well. Well, they're, well, they're not
seeing me and we've seen some really good increases in club
head speed and all the ones are already.
I'm excited to see where it finishes up.
So we'll still got another four or five weeks to run and then I
can start to really look at, you know, because I've got a record
of all the club head speeds before they started.
Right. And more than look at that,
we'll obviously retest that at the end of March and see, you
know, where they end up. But already, you know, like 6 to
8 miles an hour, not just. Huge, right?
I mean. Huge, huge for these guys.
Might be minimum 18 or 25 yards in the air.
Yeah. That's huge for anybody.
Yeah, so I'm excited and I'm going to keep an eye on the
seasons and the four of them and that all, I think that all 500
captain below. Brilliant.
Well, that's awesome. And see them are 15, one of them
is 14. Right.
So a good age and you know, it's like you and I never had
anything like this. Been more grown up as a junior
and but you know, The thing is know if they're not doing it,
then you're getting left behind. Yeah, because somebody's doing
it right. Something else is definitely, I
mean for us. And if you look at some of the
the four were lucky enough to play golf worth mid alley was,
you know, guys like Stevie Paul, we kill it.
They've done the price, you know, way more than any rest of
us and it kind of short. So you take that to fatness.
It's a no brainer. If you're doing it and somebody
else doesn't, you're they're going to fall behind you.
Yeah, Yep. So I'm excited to see where
they'll get to with our club. Head speeds, obviously where
they go straight, I'm not, that's not my concern.
That's not golf course. He's concerned.
I'm just going to add the the club head speed on and the golf
coach can worry about where it's on the field.
We are not. Kenny Monaghan, the guys done a
Strathclyde range or over the Clydeway or whatever.
They can worry about that stuff. Exactly.
Blowing and they call it just more broadly and you're, I think
you're like the example. That's anyway just we have
passion for fatness and and training.
I mean, what have you observed in golf over the years and how
has it changed? What have you seen?
I mean, obviously Tiger is a great example, but what would
you say more broadly just beyond Tiger?
I mean would that be any like college or tour player know
who's not in the gym? I don't think so.
It's probably I'm still in the whole tour.
And it's I mean, as you say, Tiger completely changed the
landscape. Don't have been guys like that
were fat and probably went to the gym like P Tiger.
But he's just he's just taking it to another level.
And I mean, even I'm just flucking through my feet this
morning on Instagram and up pops, you know, Scottish
airflow, Rory, who was all, I think it might have been Justin
Thomas just training on the gym And so that the proper athletes
now and and I you're not getting away with with not doing
anything in the gym and you're just going to get left behind.
And on so many levels, you know, not just the strength and the
club paid speed, but, you know, flexibility, longevity, you
know, engine prevention, all of it.
But Tiger was the one that took it to a different level.
Yeah, and then I was going to just circle back calling on
their own prep. So one of the things, you know,
I need to do way, way better on this, but I've definitely been
doing more with bands. I've got medicine bone that sits
in the car that I take down if I'm having a lot of balls, and
I'm trying to incorporate even before I just play around, to be
honest. But if you talk about just
getting people activated for going out and playing and the
difference potentially of not spending that, what could be 10
minutes, right? And 10 minutes, that's not
ideal, but even 10 minutes, the difference that can make when
you're actually out in the golf course.
Yeah, 100%. I mean, and you don't like the
difference, I suppose, with the pros now and you look at the
routines, they're going to the gym before they before around,
Yeah, all the time. I mean, Justin Rose, I mean, it
came out with Ben just after they won.
Was it in Phoenix a few weeks ago?
He's he's layout, he's there. He was in the gym at 5:00 AM
before he went out. So I know obviously the, the you
know, the amateur golfers on the junior golfers aren't going to
be going to the gym before they go out in the golf course.
But the mobility stretches, you can be doing them in the house,
the house with 0 equipment or just with limited bands.
And I know that's what I do know, you know, SO45 mobility
stretches on the floor before I go out and follow around the
golf. And it just helps immensely
before you go, you know, rather than getting the car, get the
clubs out the button, just straight to swings and then
straight onto the first tee. Yeah, you start double bogey,
Double bogey. Yeah, it's really, I'm testing
like I've reflected on us a lot, especially recently.
You arrange sessions now and you've seen me doing my, my, my
cellular attempts at gaining speed and stuff, which I've been
able to do. And I would say straight out the
gate when I tried that the first time, I went straight to speed
stacks and injured myself and all of that.
So I think it's important for people if they're going to do
some form of speed train or any kind of training just to get the
right direction. And you know, I've been able to
do that a little bit myself now. But when I go and play, and I've
reflected on this a lot recently, there was a rent when
I played and I'd maybe spent, honestly, it was garbage.
It was like 5 minutes, maybe 15 balls dead, about a stretch and
bands out for a couple of minutes and I've went away and
played and I had the ball rubbish, absolutely terrible.
Good thing was I scored dorky, right?
I got away where I've been priced in a reasonable amount.
So I got away where I can get my way around the golf course and
then one of the next teams I played I spent more like 15
minutes, which doesn't say much more.
It's more like 1520 minutes. I've got straight to the barns
first, I've got the medicine ball at the car, doing a bit of
bounce and whatever with that, you know, holding it over the
back of my head and all these kind of things.
And honestly what a difference it made.
No, I didn't play amazing, but I felt so much better.
My swing was in a much better place.
I didn't had it perfect, definitely had it better, felt
more in control of what I was doing and I think that's so huge
for people now. So for those young kids have
been working with you calling, it's a great platform for them
to take forward for their golf every day.
Yeah, if they take, you know, I'm going to be trying to drill
into them though over the last, last kind of four weeks before
the season starts that, you know, to try and do the mobility
stretches at least as I'm kind of minimum before they go out
and play golf. You know, even just like the
thoracic, you know, rotations. I mean, how much does that help
with golf? Like just sitting, just doing
them as you say for 5 minutes before your round could make a
huge difference. Absolutely.
And then, Colin, I mean, it's not just the fitness side in
terms of physical. You obviously look at attrition
as well. So what kind of things should
golfers and everybody in general be thinking about before they go
and play that round? It's like 4 hours long, right?
What kind of things have in mind?
Yeah. So I guess a lot of that comes
down to I'll also come down to tee off time.
Wasn't it like how you lay your tee off timers?
So I, I guess that broadly and protein and carbohydrates and
hydration, hydration is huge. Like, you know, a lot of people
wouldn't drink enough water even the day before.
If you know you're going for a long round or you've got a 2
rounder drinking enough water on the days leading up to so that
you're not, you know, dehydrated, but protein and
carbs on the day. If I speak for myself
personally, I play quite early, so there's no way I'm getting up
and cooking at that time in the morning.
And yeah, the wife bathed on me. You know, I'm out cooking at
7:00 in the morning, so my go to at that time as like overnight
oats, right? So oats, Greek yoga.
And that's something I'll make up the night before, put it in
the fridge, wake up in the morning and they're good to go
and store protein, carbohydrates.
Then I'll take some stuff left me in my bag, maybe like more
water probably. Usually a protein shake, a
protein bar or a protein like flapjack and may have a banana.
If it's a 2 down dog, you might have like a chicken signage or
Turkey sandwich, something like that.
As you are teeing off later and you've got a bit more time
getting up, making some scrambled eggs and toast, like a
bagel and scrambled eggs, something like that.
And then just taking, taking something in your bag.
I mean, if you start to see a pattern, we're at the back end
of rounds, you're feeling fatigued or your concentration
slapping, then the one of the first things I would look at
would be your nutrition. Yeah, totally.
So it's something a lot of people wouldn't even think of.
Well, just my own fell apart the day again.
Again. Yeah.
You know, I said, you know, you track it back, go wrong.
Don't drink any water. John around.
Yeah, it's much when you think back, I mean, even as cuts that
it just wasn't really necessarily on your brain to do
all that stuffy. No, no, it's just time to draw
and the the the kids know you know of like this is really
going to help, especially when the two rounders it becomes even
more important than. Yeah, 2 rounders.
I mean, I, I want to say I dread them.
No, but when through a period loving down here where I hadn't
really played any 2 rounders for a long time and I've tried and
Oh my goodness, it was, it was just torture.
It was brutal. And that was, to be honest, I
was going towards the end of first try and then you're done
is maybe they've got a lunch later on in your street and like
a steak pie. I mean, what you what you think
it's crazy. Yeah, yeah.
Not the best option. Leave the steak tie for after
the second round. Just don't bother.
Chips and cheese is the thing. As you know, anything that's
really, really high in fat, it's just going to set in a start.
You're just going to go in that second round and just feel
lethargic. And then you get to the end of
the end and you start to potentially feel nervous,
excited, although that may be doing more to what you've
actually eaten versus truly how you're feeling physically.
Yeah, yeah. You know, if you haven't eaten
properly, you know your blood sugar levels drop and all that
sort of stuff effects you more and but then you come off the
course and you just blame your blame your swing, don't you can
blame yourself. In the practice area again or
that will solve. Realized maybe looking at your
nutrition and so you know, I would say that for anyone like
listening, if you start to see apart from where you're
struggling at the end of rounds, then look at look at your
nutrition, looking at hydration and before you get yourself too
much of a hard time. Not that you and I have ever
done that colony all each other. So then a couple other
questions. Colin, what's the biggest mouth
and fatness? War that calves or the devil's
work, do you know? I think, I think slowly but
surely, you know, the main set on carbs has changed and now
people know that it's that you need carbohydrates that's your
primary energy source of. Course.
And the problem is, and my clients will just roam the roll
their eyes at this point because they've heard me saying it so
many times. The problem is is when you
combine a lot of carbs and a lot of fat at the same time that
you're on anti problems. OK.
And also without getting, I suppose too deep, and yet if
you're looking at carbohydrate sources, your ideal carbohydrate
sources should have let if you're looking at the labels,
should have less than 10 grams of fat in them.
So if you think about it, porridge oats, high in carbs,
low in fat, rice, white potatoes, all that sort of
stuff, all high in carbs but really low in fat.
And by the same token, your fat source should have less than 10
grams of carbohydrates. Right, there you go.
So saloid steak high in fat, no carbohydrates.
It's when you start to combine the two, that's where you run
into trouble. So if I if you go and pick up
the label on a doughnut, it's going to be sky high on
carbohydrates and fat. That's the foods you want to try
and keep to a minimum. So it's not that calves are the
are that's huge, like evil. You need, your body needs them.
They're actually good for you. And it's combining and lots of
lots of calves and lots of fat at the same time.
And so, yeah, that's that's that's a definitely a method
needs to die on the fatness front.
It's not almost like kind of detox diets and all that kind of
stuff. Most underrated exercise for
golfers? I think you may attach to this
already. Some trap bar, like a trap bar
Dead laughs. Your hex bar deadlift.
If you go and watch any of the pros working out, there's not a
single session that doesn't involve some form of like trap
bar deadlift just because it works.
So many different muscle groups. So if you're only going to do
like one exercise, that might be it.
I'm sure I'll listen to Xander Shawfly on a pod and he said
that when he started lifting heavier on competition days he
actually started playing better. Right it.
Was incredible. That is pretty, yeah.
So he used to stay away from really heavy days like and just
have that during the week. And he said he was starting to
feel fatigued, so he just turned around and started doing not
massive, but like short periods of heavier lifting on the day.
And he said his his game always transformed at that point in
terms of fatness and on the course and how he was feeling.
Well, that would be interesting to see whether that was like I
don't normally. Yeah.
Because I would always program when I get into golf season 9,
I'm programming my heavy strength days away from my
competition days. So Wednesday, Saturday and my 2
competition days. So my heavier lifting days will
be Monday, Thursday probably. And then wrote about your, your
golf and your golf days. You're doing like more
rotational, what explosive, what box jumps, medicine ball slams,
all that kind of stuff. The things that you'll recover
from quickly. And but that, that's quite
interesting. Yeah.
When look at I'll. Find it for you.
Yeah, yeah. I'm interested to hear about
that. And then wrapping up on the
train and if you could train 1 two player, who would it be and
why? Good question.
Like I think the obvious answer would be Tiger.
Do you know what I would? I would just love to set in on
one of Tiger sessions. Yeah, if someone is coming back
from all these different surgeries over the over the
years, yeah, I would love to just set and the the the level
of detail and coaching that he must be getting would be
phenomenal. But if I did pack a like a kind
of current player, I think like see someone like a Justin Rose,
yeah, just a really, really good guy, like some of age.
And I think you I just just would be a really, really good
guy between. Yeah, absolutely.
A tie and see if you can get me any swing taps well in the ton.
So should then I thought when he wins they will jump into some
golf questions call best golf course you've ever played.
Probably probably turn buddy. Nice.
And I like Castle Stewart as well.
Castle Stewart's good day. Brilliant golf course views are
amazing Castle. Shot, then introduced.
Yeah. Last year played with Dang it,
got beat again. Well, you've played Dawn not
don't you? But how would Dawn not rate
against Or don't Stewart and Tundra?
Dawn Look is right at the very top and I'm trying these days
not to put them in order, but Dawn, not Castle Stewart and
Tumblay would be on my top five in Scotland.
Definitely, definitely my top five.
And that includes like Cumniston stuff for that.
So yeah, Castle Stewart really good.
I was lucky that I get Castle Stewart on a really good day and
see when you're standing up in the high but the golf course
looking out to the water. Unreal.
Phenomenon phenomenal and I really enjoyed that.
But yeah, I like Tonbury as well, definitely.
Or Castle Stewart. A Bitter too, I think.
But I wouldn't course you'd love to play a part from Augusta that
you've not been to yet. I think in in Scotland and
they'd either be Donna or the Trump course 1 old Wade and and
obviously that's just fresh in my mind now from 2 weeks ago and
Pebble Beach. Yeah, absolutely.
You're sat and watched, not the TV.
And it's. That looks all right, wasn't it?
Phenomenal. Again, you get just.
Look at those at CP back in the day.
Same sort of views. Best golfer you've ever played
with? So I think it would probably be
Stephen Ahara. So he came to Caldwell Park.
I don't know. It came from colder Blaze.
Then I'm going to guess we might have been 15.
I think you'd have been 14 or 15 years. 14 or 15, I think, And
what he did from like probably the age of 16 to, I don't know,
1920 amateur level was phenomenal.
Yeah. And you're playing medal rounds
with him when he's 1516 and he's hitting 18 greens and
regulation. I watched that.
I genuinely watched him doing that.
It was phenomenal, in fact. I'm just laughing, you know, I'm
sure it was you and I that played with Stephen.
He won the is it a cake couple. That was like the best 2 medal
scores plus on the day. Yeah, yeah.
See, I think maybe two or three monthly medal scores plus on the
day. And he even out in 32 and I made
the bold decision to press them on their bike.
And I was joking you. I said you're not going to press
me as well. You just looked at me.
You're absolutely stupid. And of course I was because he's
short 3 under the back 9. The two of us came off and I
think honestly, Colin, I can't remember somebody shooting sex
under par and looking so easy, easy.
It was ridiculous. Easy.
How many? I don't know how many times he
won the score. The Scottish boys And then did
they not win the British as well?
When the Scottish boys, the British boys and then the
Scottish Archer. Yeah.
Yeah, and obviously Paul, his brother was a really good player
as well, but he was about younger than me said I don't
play. I don't know if cold open a huge
amount of golf with Paul and but I mean TE green and like Stephen
the heart of this just. I've been inflating us a lot
recently that you we'd be sort of judging ourselves against one
of the guys at the club. And I mean they're very
positive. We trying to work with you
without your game and you're like oh of nowhere.
And then you come realization when you get your 40s.
We are saying Stevie was probably they talked on the
amateurs in the world. What were we even fighting?
It's just judging judging yourself against someday you.
You shouldn't even be thanked, but it's crazy.
Yeah, some really good golfers and launched at that point and
obviously you had a few the guys from Wash all and you know some
some great and junior golfers. Yeah.
Well, I'm not sure in terms of guys that were really good too.
Yeah. And you're helping the next
generation come through. Call.
Hope so. I hope so.
I'm going to be watching them closely this year.
Yes, that would be good. Right, we'll finally shop with
the best strain of golf you've ever played.
Yes, so I can tell you the year and everything and 2010 and kick
up, as you mentioned before at Cobble Park 65 scratch and no
idea how they're done it. My dad stole get the this, the
scorecard and all of these and or any study.
From studied no use yeah. Yeah, he's got the card and die
just one, probably one of those once in a lifetime rounds where
you have pitching and horn from everywhere.
And but yeah, that was in 2010. Seems a lifetime ago.
That's awesome. And so to bear the mirror and CP
as well. And you've done 66, so yeah,
you've got me. Got me cornered with those.
That's awesome. You've got me cornered now, big
man. Yeah.
I was hoping that I don't know about that, right.
Colin, just wrapping up here. So if people want to get in
touch and find out more about how you can help them with
fatness, nutrition in general, and potentially under their
golf, where can they find you? So I'm on Instagram and Colin
Dixon PT and so please come give me a follow.
And I've got lots of workouts, nutrition.
I've got some golf specific stuff out on there as well,
which I'll be doing more of hopefully during the during the
golf season. So yeah, come get me a follow.
Any questions on anything then just just drop my BDM.
More than happy to help. Brilliant.
Austin, thanks so much for coming on call.
It's been great to hear from you.
Thanks for having me Ross, been great catching up.
Cheers, pal, Cheers. I'd like to thank Colin Dixon
for joining me and sharing the stories about his journey and
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