Rick Miller, author of the Unfair Golf Advantage©.
Developer and designer of the Edge for Golfers®.

Rick has been in Health and Fitness for close to 10 years. He has written countless books and articles on Health, Fitness and Anti Aging and has also been featured in several local Washington DC area newspapers. He has personally trained many of DC’s high-ranking Bureaucrats, Politicians and Military Personnel with amazing success.

Rick switched his focus to Golf and Golf Fitness in 2003 and has trained many of the DC areas best golfers who helped refine and perfect the Unfair Golf Advantage and the Edge for Golfers.

Born outside Boston in Worcester, MA in 1969, Rick has lived in Hawaii, Cape Cod, Washington DC, and currently lives and works in the Atlanta area, where he trains pro and amateur golfers and is now the country’s top golf fitness expert.

History of The Edge For Golfers Be as productive as possible in the shortest time allowable.

My philosophy in life, it served me well when I worked in the corporate world.

When I first started in the fitness industry I noticed the fundamental problem in exercising was a separation or compartmentalization of the various fitness components.

I would spend one hour with a client and we would do 20 minutes of weights, 20 minutes of cardio, 10 minutes of abs and 10 minutes of stretching.

This was effective but the inherent problem solver came out in me. That's what I get for being and analyst for years.

Instead of performing all the exercises separately what if we could combine everything into one movement and one workout.

The conception of the edge was here but it did not exist yet.

I tried many different approaches, boot camps, cross training, super sets and a some other programs also.

The fundamental problem remained the same; you still had to do everything separately.

In 2003 when I first began training golfers, I was having success but the workouts were time consuming and the results were good but not as good as I wanted.

My first attempt at developing the edge was to swing dumbbells in a rotational and circular fashion.

Don't try this my elbows had tendonitis for months.

I quickly discarded this plan and moved on.

My next step was kettle bells, a great workout but there are a finite amount of moves you can do and my men clients were complaining about to much stiffness and decreased shoulder turn radius and my women clients were gaining muscle to quickly.

I was at a crossroads at this point, the idea was alive but the reality of it was not.

In 2004 something seemingly irrelevant happened, the movie Troy, with Brad Pitt came out. Brad was jacked in that movie and the fight scenes were amazing.

I went to the movies with my girlfriend at the time and enjoyed it.

A week later I was watching TV after dinner and an interview with Brad Pitt came on.

This one statement he made has stuck with me for years...............................

They asked him how he got in shape for the movie.

Brad's reply:

If you want to get into serious shape train with swords, it's the most incredible workout in existence.

I went and saw it again, yup he was jacked.
But more importantly he was functional, lean and limber.

What does every golfer crave?

Well, wearing a green jacket in April but almost as important:

Being functional, lean and limber.

Back to sword training , I had trained in the Japaneese martial art of Kendo for years back in the 90's.

I rememember how cut, lean and defined I was. My endurance and strength levels were through the roof and I could eat like a cow and not gain a pound.

I thought about my golfer clients and what else they crave They will do anything to aviod dieting The only problem with kendo training and all the results that I got was the amount of time I invested. It easily topped 10 hours a week.

There was no way in Hades that anyone of my clients was going to workout for 10 hours a week.

Once again, the dream was dead.

I continued to train golfers but felt guilty because I wanted to give them the most effective golf workout they could get anywhere.

I wanted to be the best golf fitness trainer in the world.

I wanted to invent something our grandkids could benefit from.

Late 2005,

Another ephiphany, What if I increased the weight of the sword?

Better yet, what if I used a clublike tool instead of a sword?

First demo, A basebal bat with a weighted ring on the end, bad idea. My poor elbows and shoulders, I was dragging my knuckles for a week.

Wiffle ball bat with water in it, to messy.

Wiffle ball bat with sand in it, ouch.

I wasn't discouraged, I already knew the exercises that I wanted to do, but I needed the tool to do it with.

I came up with a concept of how the edge would look like and I contacted manufacturers around the world and had many demos made.

My friend, this was pricey, I'm still recovering.

I ordered different demos: 3Lbs, 5Lbs, 10lbs, 10 inches, 16 inches, 20 inches 25 inches.

I waited a few months and my demos were delivered.

The following few months I painstakingly tested each one on myself. After I got almost all of the kins out I tested with my clients.

To make a long story short, the 5LB, 16 inch model won out and the edge and the unfair golf advantage workout were created.

My clients loved it and I never had to advertise for my training services again.

They all added distance, improved accuracy, lost weight and got their bodies in great shape.

Looking back, it was...............

A stagering amount of time, money and effort.

Spending every penny I ever saved and almost bankrupting myself.

Friends and family thinking I was crazy for following my dream and risking everything.

Staying in every night, having no social life and working 80 hours a week.

Testing over and over to get it right and then testing again to make it better.

All to make the edge and everything it does available to you.

Thank you for your time, I wish you all the success and hapiness in the world, on and off the golf course.

Rick Miller,

Tired after this long journey but excited for you!

Rick Miller
America's Top Golf Fitness Trainer
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770-912-7303
rick@thegolffitnessguru.com