Today we’d like to introduce you to Andrew Banner.
Andrew, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
After spending six years teaching and coaching golf, as well as mentoring under many of golf’s greatest swing instructors, I realized that I needed to understand the body much better to help a greater majority of golfers play better, pain-free golf. This is when I sought out the best in the business at developing golfers from a fitness perspective. It only took one summer of mentoring under Damon Goddard, Sports Performance Coach to realize this is what I wanted to do.
Together we built AMPD Golf Fitness and TEAM AMPD to help juniors, executive golfers, collegiate golfers and professional golfers feel and play their best golf. Over the past six years with Damon, we have been able to help develop many golfers who have gone on to achieve many accolades including: 33 Pro Wins, 6 #1 Rankings, 43 AJGA wins, 8 USGA Wins, 2 Majors and 59 College Scholarships. Helping as many golfers as possible achieve their goals is our number one focus.
In 2017, we have made a big push to grow the brand and our reach so we can help more golfers around the world unleash their swing. We now offer online training and team consulting which has been a huge success.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Developing athletes and providing results is what we have done best over the years. That is what keeps the brand healthy and our reputation growing in a positive manner. Making business decisions for the betterment of our athletes and our team has always been number one. Learning how to most efficiently and effectively capitalize on some of our athlete’s success stories has been a challenge. We have learned a lot over the past six years and have built better systems to help us funnel the success back to the brand and the facility.
TEAM AMPD – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
We are best known for developing golfers from a fitness perspective. We help golfers stay healthy and perform at their highest levels so they can enjoy the game of golf. Many people do not realize the physical demands that are placed upon the body to play golf frequently and especially professionally. Golf is a chaotic, one-sided sport that takes thousands of repetitions to play well. This one-sided rotary action takes a toll on the body. Our job is to identify movement deficiencies and improve upon them so the body can be in balance. Once the body is in balance, then we get the athlete ampd up with speed and power to hit the golf ball a long way.
As a business owner, I am most proud of our athlete’s accomplishments and the team environment we have created. It is awesome to be a part of Jordan Speith’s team but it is also really fun to help our juniors earn college scholarships or help our executive golfers walk 18 holes pain-free. Watching our team of coaches help develop endless stories like these is what makes me most proud.
Our approach from start to finish is what makes us unique. Understanding why our client came in the door and what it is that they are trying to accomplish is everything to us. We buy into our golfer’s goals. From there we have an in-depth series of test we take our athletes through to help us build a road map for success. We re-test frequently to track and monitor progress this way we can make sure what we are doing is working and if not, we adjust accordingly to produce results.
What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
Going from a sports performance coach to an owner has been the most rewarding moment in my career. Working tirelessly for years alongside Damon as we built a golf fitness business was very challenging. No one thought it was a good idea to only focus on only training golfers and earning partnership was a reflection of years of hard work.
Pricing:
- Movement Assessment $200
- One-Off Private Training $150
- Online Training $150/month
- Online Private Training $250/month
Contact Info:
- Address: 13617 Inwood Rd., Ste 205
- Website: www.AMPDgolffitness.com
- Phone: 214.302.7850
- Email: info@teamampd.com
- Instagram: AMPDGolfFitness
- Facebook: AMPD Golf Fitness
- Twitter: @AMPDgolffitness
- Yelp: AMPD Golf Fitness
Image Credit:
Jason Anderson – Pendelton
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