Performance Coaching
Dr. Mark J. Smith is a high-performance coach for golf and racquet sports, and a world-recognized expert on both high-intensity interval training and Paleolithic nutrition.
Working with passionate golfers, tennis and racquet sport players, and active people throughout Southern California, Doc Smith helps people with sports performance and nutrition and diet.
About Performance Coaching with Doc Smith
Doc Smith is a three-time Golf Digest Best Fitness Trainer in America and a member of the Advisory Board of the Titleist Performance Institute and a TPI Certified Coach. He is Chief Science Officer of The Paleo Diet and has helped people solve or ease health conditions using The Paleo Diet for over 30 years, making him one of the most experienced Paleolithic nutrition clinicians in the world.
Explore Performance Coaching Services
Fix your swing, boost your power, build your endurance
Fix Your Swing
Corrective Movement Assessment
The Corrective Movement Assessment is a component of the Titleist Performance Institute and RACQUETFIT™ programs. Working with Doc Smith, you’ll complete a comprehensive, head-to-foot movement screening that assesses your movement patterns by benchmarking your abilities against a series of over 30 tests. We’ll look at your mobility, stability, and balance. Completing this assessment is the first step in your journey to higher performance.
Boost Strength & Power
Strength & Power Baseline Testing
You can be stronger and more powerful! It starts with seeing where you are now. Doc Smith offers three bilateral strength tests, three power tests, and one bilateral power test. With this benchmark, we’ll know your path forward to improving your game.
Build Your Endurance
Cardiovascular Fitness Training
Cardio fitness is the key to endurance and recovery for anyone one the links or the courts. Doc Smith will assess your cardiovascular fitness to establish a baseline, then work on an overall program for cardio improvement.
Fix Your Swing
3D Movement Analysis & Biofeedback Training
Doc Smith analyzes athlete movement patterns using the K-Motion sensor system. This 3D motion capture system is ideal to analyze swings and motion in asymmetrical swinging sports like golf, baseball, and racquet sports. Working with Doc Smith, you can use this system to improve your swing.
Fix Your Swing
Neurokinetic Therapy
Developed by David Weinstock, the NeuroKinetic Therapy technique treats the dysfunctional movement patterns that cause pain. When active people compensate for painful movements or repeat suboptimal movement patterns that cause injury, the NKT system can help to break those patterns and foster healthy, effective movement.
3D force Plates
Smart2Move
Smart2Move force plates measure crucial data about your swing that you cannot see, even by using slow-motion video. Doc Smith uses 3D force plates to measure the unique biomechanics of your swing: vector forces, torque, stance width, center of pressure, pressure shift, and center of pressure line. You get an unparalleled, detailed view of your biomechanics.
Testimonials
What Athletes Say
Work with the fitness trainer and nutrition coach the pros trust.
“I have known Mark since 2015 and have very much enjoyed my time working with him.”
“Doc Smith is one of the most professional, organized, and hard-working people that I have worked with over the course of my career.”
Get Started Now with Doc Smith
The Doctor Is In! Get in touch to schedule a free consult and learn how Doc Smith can help you.
Sports imagery courtesy of: Pexels/Edward Eyer, K-Motion, Pexels/Case Originals, Smart2Move, Pexels/Sebastian Luna