Karen Palacios-Jansen is a LPGA Master Professional, a NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Certified Personal Trainer, a Nike Golf Performance Specialist and Pilates instructor. From 2016-19, Karen served as Vice-President of LPGA Professionals. She is also a part of the LPGA Education Program, training future members in the United States and Korea. Karen has been voted LPGA Teacher of the Year and has been named to the Golf-Digest Magazine Top 50 Fitness Trainer list.
In May 2025 the LPGA Professionals announced that Karen Palacios-Jansen, LPGA Master Teaching Professional, was the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Nancy Lopez Golf Achievement Award.
Recently Karen Palacios Jansen’s CardioGolf® program moved online. CardioGolf® Online Studio has hundreds of workout videos and tips to help you improve your golf game and fitness at the same time. For more information visit CardioGolf.com.
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Trying to physically slide your weight from side to side completely destroys your swing’s timing and leads to fat or topped shots. LPGA Instructor Karen Palacios Jansen demonstrates how replacing a violent lateral weight shift with a centered hip pivot keeps your swing beautifully in rhythm.
A wide takeaway is crucial for a powerful golf swing, but many players ruin their mechanics by over-exaggerating the movement. LPGA Master Professional Karen Palacios Jansen from CardioGolf.com demonstrates how to keep your hands, arms, and shoulders in sync without swaying off the ball.
You can lower your scores without changing your swing by becoming automatic from three feet. Karen Palacios Jansen shares the “prayer grip” and rail drills to ensure your putter face stays square through impact.
This routine by Karen Palacios Jansen from Cardio Golf is designed to help you stay golf-ready even when you don’t have time to play or practice. Perform these exercises for a few minutes daily to mobilize your muscles and improve coordination.
Struggling with a tight backswing or a “chicken wing” finish? You don’t need a golf course to fix your mechanics. Karen Palacios Jansen shares a complete wall-based routine designed to increase your rotation, improve your sequencing, and create a wider, more powerful swing arc using just a flat surface at home.
Karen Palacios Jansen shows how to prevent tops, pulls, and slices by maintaining your spine angle and staying in the shot.
Prepare your body for the course with an at-home fitness routine from Karen Palacios Jansen. Using a golf club, resistance band, and hand weight, you’ll focus on warming up key muscle groups, improving balance, and rehearsing swing positions to build stability and power.
Improve your power and sequence with Karen Jansen as she demonstrates drills (like the Cross-Crawl and Running Man) to enhance the rotational separation between your torso and your hips during the golf swing.
Karen Palacios Jansen breaks down the swing into three core athletic movements: the grip, the hip hinge (posture), and the pivot that are essential for consistency and fluid motion.
Karen Palacios Jansen shows how gripping the club too tightly hinders your swing with a simple scale and drill to help you find the right grip pressure for more consistency and power.
Many golfers mistakenly lift their arms or tilt their upper body instead of rotating their torso and hips. Karen Palacios Jansen demonstrates three simple drills to help you train the proper rotation for a powerful and repeatable swing.
Karen Palacios Jansen shows why the putter grip is unique. Learn the proper hand placement and the popular reverse overlap grip to minimize wrist action and improve your consistency on the green.
