The Winning Combination — Mind, Body and Nutrition for the Golfer Who Wants to Play Their Best
- evennow
- Mar 29
- 12 min read
Updated: Mar 31
This is the third post in a trilogy. If you haven't read the first two, here's the short version: in Part 1 I told you how Lifeplus nutritional supplements woke up my cells and gave me something I had never had before: real goals and a genuine desire to live my best life. In Part 2 I shared how I used PSYCH-K® to programme my golf swing directly into my subconscious mind, silencing the inner critic and letting my body do what it already knew how to do. This third post brings it all together and it contains an offer for you.
But first, let me tell you what I have learned.
The three pillars of extraordinary performance
Golf, like any sport, like any skill, is not just physical. Every golfer knows this. You can have the most technically correct swing in the world and still stand over the ball with your mind racing, your grip tightening, your body doing the opposite of what your coach told you to do. Every golfer has stood on a tee feeling like a completely different player from the one who was hitting beautifully on the practice range ten minutes earlier. I have even met a successful banker on the driving range who shared with me in a conversation that as soon as he stands on the first tee he feels like that little school boy again, and he can't shift that lack of confidence however much he tries!
What separates a good golfer from a great one is rarely just technique. It is the ability to bring the whole of yourself to the game, your body, your mind and the fuel that powers both.
Over the past several months, I have been discovering through my own experience, sometimes quite dramatically, what happens when all three of those elements are properly supported at the same time. And the results have genuinely surprised me.
The three pillars are simple:
🌿 A well-nourished body: cells that are energised, muscles that are supported, a mind that is clear and focused from the inside out.
🌿 A trained subconscious: a mental game that works for you rather than against you, where your coach's instructions have been translated into the language your body actually understands.
🌿 Consistent, joyful practice: repetition that builds muscle memory, guided by a mind that is already primed to succeed.
Take any one of these away and the other two are working harder than they need to. Combine all three, and something remarkable becomes possible.
The foundation for it all is my latest learning: your body absolutely comes first.
Before we talk about golf specifically, I want to say something that applies to every human being reading this, golfer or not.
You cannot perform at your best when your body is depleted. This sounds obvious, and yet most of us are walking around in a state of nutritional deficit that we have simply accepted as normal, because we have never known anything different. I was one of them. For fifty-four years.
The shift I experienced when I began taking Lifeplus supplements, and which I described in detail in Part 1, was not a small adjustment. It was a fundamental change in how my body felt to inhabit. The energy, the clarity, the ease of waking up each morning. These things don't just make life more enjoyable. They make performance possible.
For any golfer who wants to play their best, I would recommend starting with what I call the foundation, the 'Golden Basic Supply', which brings together three core Lifeplus products:
Daily BioBasics is a comprehensive daily nutritional powder: vitamins, minerals, fibre, phytonutrients from 35 fruits and vegetables, 19 herbs, antioxidants, prebiotics and probiotics. All in two scoops mixed into your favourite drink once a day. It is the nutritional foundation that most of our modern diets simply cannot provide on their own.
Proanthenols 100 is one of Lifeplus' most trusted and consistently popular products, built on fifty years of research by Dr. Jack Masquelier, Professor from the University of Bordeaux in southern France. It contains Real OPCs - Oligomeric ProanthoCyanidins - extracted from grape seeds and pine bark by Berkem Laboratories, regarded as the most knowledgeable and experienced company in the world for producing high-quality OPC extracts. The Real OPCs in Proanthenols are 100% bioavailable and residue-free. This synergistic formula also includes Vitamin C, which contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative damage. For anyone committed to an active lifestyle, it is a product worth knowing about.
OmeGold provides omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, combined with Vitamin D and Vitamin E. EPA and DHA together contribute to the normal function of the heart. DHA also contributes to the maintenance of normal brain function. OmeGold additionally contains Vitamin D, which supports normal immune function, and Vitamin E, which helps protect cells from oxidative damage, particularly welcome for those of us playing outdoors in the British grey.
This is the base. This is what keeps your body capable of performing, recovering and showing up again tomorrow.
As with all supplements, please consult your doctor before taking them, especially if you are on medication. I share my own experience only and I make no health claims.
On the course: the Be series
Now let's talk about what Lifeplus offers specifically for athletic performance - and here I want to be completely transparent with you.
I have been building my Lifeplus supplement routine gradually, and I am not yet personally using the full Be series on a daily basis. What I have tried is the Be Recharged post-workout amino complex, which I use after my driving range sessions, and the Smart Bar, which I genuinely enjoyed as an on-course snack. What I know about the rest of the Be range comes from the science behind the products, from the athletes who use them, and from my conversations with people in the Lifeplus community whose results I have seen firsthand.
I share this because authenticity matters to me more than a polished sales pitch. But I also want to tell you what these products are designed to do, because the science is genuinely impressive, and the results I am seeing in others are real.
The Be range is a trio of performance supplements designed to work together across your training or round:
🏌️♀️ Be Focused: your pre-round preparation, taken 30 minutes before you tee off. Formulated with creatine, which increases physical performance in high intensity exercise, caffeine, which helps improve concentration and focus, and Vitamin B6, which helps reduce tiredness and fatigue. It is designed to prepare you - body and mind - before you step up to the first tee. Favourite product of two-time Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor.
🏌️♀️ Be Sustained: your during-round companion, available in convenient sachets that slip perfectly into your golf bag. Enriched with electrolytes — sodium, potassium and magnesium — to keep you hydrated throughout your round, BCAAs in a 2:1:1 ratio, and Vitamin B12 which helps reduce tiredness and fatigue. Available in handy sachets that slip perfectly into your golf bag, it is designed to keep you going from the first hole to the last.
🏌️♀️ Be Recharged: your recovery drink, taken within 30 minutes of finishing your round. Contains BCAAs in a 2:1:1 ratio (leucine, isoleucine and valine), essential amino acids which contribute to the growth of muscle mass, and taurine. The 20-40 minutes after exercise is what Lifeplus calls the "golden window" — and Be Recharged is designed specifically for that moment. Favourite product of European cliff diving champion Iris Schmidbauer.
🏌️♀️ Be Refueled: sourced from grass-fed cows, cold-filtered whey providing 20g of complete protein per serving. Protein contributes to the growth and maintenance of muscle mass, making it a valuable addition to any golfer's post-round routine. Particularly valuable if you are building your game over time and want to develop real physical strength alongside your technique.
🍫 The Smart Bar is a chocolate nutrition bar with natural carbohydrates, protein, fibre, B vitamins and magnesium, with no artificial sweeteners or trans fats. Keep one in your bag for the turn. Your body and your back nine will thank you. Favourite product of Georgina Blackman, a professional golfer with her sights set on winning on the Ladies European Tour. A professional golfer who fuels her game with a Smart Bar. I noticed that with considerable interest. 😊
One important note for competitive golfers and athletes of any level: the full Be range is registered with the Informed Sport Programme, a globally recognised quality assurance programme for sports nutrition that tests products for banned substances and guarantees the quality and integrity of every product. Additionally, an impressive range of Lifeplus products, including the full Be series, Daily BioBasics, Proanthenols 100, OmeGold, MSM Plus, TVM Plus and many more, are listed on the Cologne List, independently tested and certified as doping-safe. You can verify this yourself by searching for Lifeplus Europe Ltd. If you compete, you can use these products with complete peace of mind.
Lifeplus works with a remarkable community of athletes as brand ambassadors, who use these products as part of their own performance nutrition and two of the most prominent names will give you a sense of the level we are talking about.
Christian Taylor is an American triple jump specialist, a two-time Olympic champion (London 2012 and Rio 2016), four-time World Champion, and holder of the second longest triple jump in history. You can read his personal testimonial to Lifeplus here.
James Ellington is a British sprinter (100m and 200m) who represented Team GB at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, and is a European champion in the 4x100m relay. In 2017 he suffered a devastating motorcycle accident that broke both legs and his pelvis and his road back to elite sport is a story of extraordinary resilience. His favourite Lifeplus product? Solis Golden Milk.
There is also Iris Schmidbauer, the first ever European cliff diving champion, and Georgina Blackman, a professional golfer with the Ladies European Tour in her sights — a face I will definitely be looking to connect with! 🏌️♀️
You can meet the full community of Lifeplus sponsored athletes here or watch a short video with their stories and testimonials:
The mental game: what PSYCH-K® does that nothing else can
I described the PSYCH-K® golf method in detail in Part 2, so I won't repeat it all here. But I want to address something directly, because I think it is the most important thing I can say to any golfer reading this.
Your coach is giving you the right instructions. You probably already know what you need to do. The gap - the maddening, persistent gap between knowing and doing - is not a technique problem. It is a communication problem. Your conscious mind (Self 1, as Timothy Gallwey calls it) has heard the instruction. But your subconscious mind (Self 2, the one that actually swings the club) has not received it in a language it understands.
That is precisely what a PSYCH-K® balance does. In a session of just a few minutes, we translate your coach's instruction, whatever it is, in whatever language makes sense to your body, into a goal statement that your subconscious can accept and act upon. From that point, your practice builds muscle memory with your subconscious mind rather than despite it.
And I want to be clear about something important: I do not need to be a golf coach to offer this work. You bring the coaching. Your coach has already done the analysis! They know your swing, they know what needs to change, and they know what they keep telling you that you keep not being able to do under pressure. That is all I need. We take that instruction, we translate it into the subconscious language of images and emotion, we balance it, and then you go and practice.
I have been doing this kind of work for years, first using hypnotherapy, supporting clients in improving their confidence in football, overcoming fear of swimming, and accelerating learning across a wide range of sports and skills. PSYCH-K® allows me to do the same work faster, more directly, and with more lasting results, because it speaks to the subconscious without the extended trance process that hypnotherapy requires.
The difference in what I offer now, compared to my earlier work, is threefold:
Faster: PSYCH-K® reaches the subconscious in minutes. A balance takes just a few minutes to complete, and the results can show up in the very next practice session.
Broader: I now understand from my own experience how nutrition and cellular health interact with mindset and learning. A well-nourished body receives new programming more readily. A depleted, exhausted body resists change. This is not theory - I lived it. And I can now support both dimensions together.
More complete: I can offer not just the mental game coaching, but also guidance on the nutritional support that helps your body perform and recover at its best. Body, mind and soul. Nutrition, PSYCH-K® and wellbeing - on a physical and psychological level simultaneously.
This is truly integrated work. And it is the most exciting thing I have offered in my professional life.
My golf mental game coaching sessions can be conducted online, which means I can work with golfers anywhere in the world. If you are local to Forest Row in East Sussex, in-person sessions can also be arranged.
And while I have focused on golf throughout this trilogy, everything I have described applies equally to any sport, any physical skill, any area where the gap between knowing and doing is holding you back. Football, swimming, tennis, running, cycling, even music or learning an instrument - if your coach or teacher has told you something that your body has not yet managed to implement, we can work on it. The principles are universal. The subconscious doesn't care which sport or instrument you play. It just needs to be spoken to in the right language.
And in closing, a note on Lifeplus and how it works:
I want to be transparent about something, because I believe you deserve honesty.
I am an independent Lifeplus partner, which means that when you purchase products through my referral link, I earn a commission. I am telling you this directly because I think hiding it would be odd, and because it is actually one of the things I find genuinely interesting about the Lifeplus model.
Lifeplus operates through referral marketing. This means that anyone who tries and loves the products has the option - not the obligation(!) - to share them with others and earn an income doing so. There are no required sign-ups, no pressure to recruit, and no strings attached to simply being a customer. You can buy products, enjoy them, and never tell a single person about them for as long as you like. Many people do exactly that, they are happy shoppers who simply benefit from the products. The income opportunity is there if you want it. If you don't, that is entirely your choice, and there is no difference in how you are treated as a customer.
I liked how James Ellington once said in an interview that he always mentions the concept of Lifeplus to the young athletes he coaches, because life for a young aspiring athlete is hard and expensive, and resources are not easy to come by next to a busy training schedule. By recommending the products that the athletes use themselves during training and in competition, they can earn an income to support their life and career early on, which I think is amazing.
I share all this because I think it is worth knowing. If the products change your life the way they changed mine, you may one day find yourself wanting to share them and the option to earn from that sharing is open to you. But there is absolutely no obligation. The products stand entirely on their own.
You can explore the full Lifeplus range through my referral link here.
The most important thing I want to leave you with is this:
Everything I have described in this trilogy, the cellular awakening, the mental game transformation, the rapid skill development, is not special to me. I am not a naturally gifted athlete. I came to golf seriously at the age of fifty-four, after a cancer diagnosis, in the middle of rebuilding my business, on a budget of £3 a day for a bucket of balls.
And in a few months, I am hitting the ball further and more consistently than I ever imagined I would at this stage. I wake up every morning wanting to get to the driving range. I have goals for the first time in my life. I feel, physically and mentally, more alive than I have ever felt.
This is available to you. Whatever your starting point. Whatever your age. Whatever limiting beliefs have been telling you that you are not capable of more.
All three doors are open, the nutritional one, the mental game one, and the one that combines both into something greater than either alone.
If you are curious about any of it, whether you want to try the Lifeplus products, explore the mental game coaching, or discover what the full winning combination could do for your performance, please reach out. There is no pressure and no obligation. Just an open conversation, and a genuine desire to help you discover what is possible.
Love and light, Tanya 🤗🏌️♀️⛳️
I make no health claims regarding Lifeplus products — all statements reflect my personal experience and knowledge of the products only. Please consult your doctor before starting any new supplement regimen.
🎁 FREE SESSION GIVEAWAY To celebrate completing this trilogy, I am giving away a free 45-minute golf mental game coaching session right here on my website. Comment 'mental golf game' below and a winner will be drawn on Friday, April 3rd 2026 at 5pm UK time from all comments received. One winner per platform, different winners on Facebook, LinkedIn and the blog itself, so comment on all three for three chances to win! One session per person maximum.
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