Janine Young
Janine became an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer in 1989. She has worked with a multitude of clients with various abilities and disabilities, young and old, amateur as well as professional. Her philosophy is to train the whole body functionally as a unit; specific to the activities it will be required to perform.
Janine moved to the Kansas City area in 1990 and started her own personal training company specializing in golf fitness, taking her exercise and fitness expertise and combining it with a love of Golf, and turning it into her business passion. In 1997 Janine joined Total Approach Golf, sharing her time between running the local business in Johnson County, Kansas and training on the PGA Tour. During this time, Janine worked with several players including Tom Watson, Brad Faxon, Phil Michelson, and Justin Leonard. In 2006 Janine formed Elite Golf and Fitness.
With over 15 years in the Golf Fitness Industry, Janine has completed the Titleist Performance Institute’s (TPI) Level 1 and 2-Golf Fitness Professional and Level 2 Golf Biomechanist Certification. As a TPI Certified Golf Fitness Professional, Janine is able to take clients through a detailed, physical assessment process that provides answers to why people have swing faults. After analyzing those results, they will receive a custom designed, web-based training program that will help eliminate the physical limitations, which lead to compensation in the Golf Swing. Additionally, she is one of 100 instructors in the world to have obtained the Advantage Golf, Master Golf Fitness Instructor Certification (MGFI) from Dr. Greg Rose, before he co-founded the Titleist Performance Institute. Between 1998 and 2005 she worked with Dr. Rose and Dave Phillips, also a co-founder of TPI and one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 PGA Teaching Pros, at corporate events around the country. Janine has also worked as a consultant on the design of several private fitness facilities in country clubs and condominium residences in the Kansas City area.
As the game of golf continues to evolve and embrace both sports technology and training innovation, Janine is dedicated to providing cutting edge, golf performance enhancement services.
