Greg Wells, Ph.D. is a physiologist who specializes in health and performance in extreme conditions. His work is focused on elite athletes who are trying to achieve international medal performances, and on children with chronic diseases.
Please explore the site to find more information on research, presentations, and resources on how to maximize performance and health in extreme conditions.
Here are the slides from today's presentations. Please use the contact page on this site to get in touch with me if you have questions or if you need more information.
The golf season is just around the corner, only a few short weeks away. OK maybe a couple of months away, but that is actually a good thing. Because we have lots of time to get back in shape for the upcoming summer to prevent injuries, play at your best, and improve your brain. Yes – improve your brain. I’ve been how exercise affects your brain and this new area of research has me very excited about what exercise can do for your golf performance, and also what golf performance can do for your body and more importantly your brain. Let me explain.
Thank you to the University of El Bosque in Bogota Columbia for having me to their sport medicine in golf conference. It was a pleasure to speak to your group and Columbia is a beautiful country I hope to visit again soon.
The presentations that I delivered at the conference are below, along with the key links to each of the resources I referenced in the talks.
Dr. Greg Wells, exercise psychologist and sport scientist, discusses how golf has become a physically demanding sport. He says golf can be a recreational activity, but for players who walk around the green and carry their own clubs, many calories can be burned off.
Watch the interview on CTV's Canada AM here.
Thanks to CTV for having me on early Monday morning to talk about golf. As many of you know, golf is a changing sport - in fact now it is considered a sport, and golfers are now considered athletes. Golf has been accepted into the 2016 Olympics and even traditional golf companies like Titleist are investing heavily in golf fitness as a new industry. I've posted many articles on the physical elements of the golf game and you can access them here:
I am quoted in today's Globe and Mail where I talk about the cardiovascular benefits of training for golf. Believe it or not golf is great for your health - if you can walk the course and keep your eating on the course in check.
My research article on this topic can be found on pub med by clicking here. The link to the Globe and Mail article is here:
From Thursday's Globe and Mail — Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009 07:54PM EDT
Walking Turnberry's fairways last week during his near-victory of the British Open, Tom Watson was anything but a tired old duffer. The lean 59-year-old was nailing tee shots and blasting irons, nearly becoming the oldest player to ever win a major. And while Mr. Watson may have lost in a playoff, he is proof, experts say, that anyone who wants to play good golf well into their 50s and beyond better starting paying attention to the importance of physical fitness.
Greg D. Wells, Ph.D.