About me
Erika Zanella
Kinesiologist and posture specialist, founder of RevivaGolf. I work across the Algarve with golfers over 50 who want to carry on playing, without pain being the thing that decides when they stop.
Kinesiologist and posture specialist, founder of RevivaGolf. I work across the Algarve with golfers over 50 who want to carry on playing, without pain being the thing that decides when they stop.
I hold a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and completed a Master’s in Clinical Posturology. For over 16 years I’ve worked with the body, movement and posture, with athletes across different sports and hundreds of golfers.
In all those years I’ve watched one thing happen a thousand times: the spot where you feel the pain rarely matches the spot where the problem begins. The back that burns after nine holes, the hip that locks in the backswing, the knee that gives way on the 18th: almost always the cause sits somewhere else along the chain, in a muscle that has stopped doing its job and another that takes the strain for it.
Sport and Exercise Science
Clinical Posturology
Over 16 years with athletes and hundreds of golfers
I know the swing from the inside: I know what it’s like to look for the turn and feel your body say no, and I understand the difference between a drive that comes off cleanly and one that costs you a twinge.
That’s why my work always starts from the way you move on the course. I ask you to stand up, make your swing, and I watch what really happens: where the body holds back, where it compensates, which muscles carry the load and which ones offload it onto your back.
A sport that puts 7 to 8 times your body weight through you, hundreds of times a week, asks for a body trained for that movement.
What I’ve learned over these years I’ve put into a method structured in four phases, built around the golfer’s body: first I find what isn’t working in the way you move, then I free it up and rebalance, then I strengthen the muscles that work in the swing, and in the end I make you self-sufficient, able to keep yourself in shape and play for another 10, 15, 20 years.
I take on no more than 10 golfers a month. No more, because I want to give each person the time and attention that real results need. I’d rather say no to someone I couldn’t follow properly than take everyone on and do half a job.
I work at home from Portimão to Vilamoura and Vale do Lobo: I come to you, around your space and your schedule. And if you’re travelling or back in Italy for a while, the programme carries on online, without a break.
Tell me what you feel, how long it’s been going on, what you’ve already tried. We look at how you move and I tell you honestly whether, and how, I can help.
No commitment, no cost. I’ll get back to you within 24 hours.