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Kolby Wayne Tullier – Signature

People think it’s the affairs. It’s the knee.

Multiple operations to Tiger Woods’ left knee have turned the world’s most dominant golfer into a mere competitor. Body Mechanics owner Kolby Tullier knows this because of the awkward way the PGA champion shifts weight to his left leg—the result of working out the wrong way, he says. Tullier can tell this by simply watching Woods play on television. This is how the fitness specialist works with many of his 200-plus clients nationwide: by video consultation.

“It’s kind of a magic show,” Tullier says of the reaction he gets when quickly diagnosing a problematic swing. “But every bad shot has a root cause. People like to say golf is 90% mental and 10% physical, but to me, it’s all physical.”

A weekly golfer himself, Tullier added the game to his slate of sports-specific training modules a few years ago. He tailors each workout regimen to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual client. For his golfers, each exercise is geared toward the stroke and the stroke alone.

Certified by the Titleist Performance Institute in California, Tullier runs assessments and designs workouts for golf pros and amateur players across the country. In Baton Rouge, he works with everyone from retirees to teenagers like recent local champions Anna Heine and Drew Kirby—young players whose newspaper clippings he has framed on the wall of his Corporate Boulevard facility like a proud papa.

“Our initial goal with Anna was just for her to make the varsity team,” Tullier recalls. “Can you believe that? This is only the beginning.”

For Tullier, designing sport-specific workouts is all about breaking through the limitations of ineffective processes and poor decision-making.

“You see people spending $500 on a driver with a head the size of a lunchbox, but if they have physical limitations, a better game is never going to happen for them,” Tullier says. “Everyone practices. Winners train.”