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Golf fitness equipment can be a variety of pieces; but what truly is golf fitness equipment?

You’d be surprised to find out it is not expensive; and is not necessarily in a gym or health club either.

Yes…there are golf “machines” for stretching and strength building that are well over one thousand dollars, but are definitely not needed.

When you think of the golf swing, it’s a dynamic movement completed in space with your ‘whole’ body. So any kind of training or golf fitness equipment should be able to accommodate this.

You have to utilize the below equipment for one reason. Convenience. Which will save you time to do what you really want to do. Play golf!

For starters, a pair of hand weights (dumbbells) are inexpensive, portable and can be used for dozens of golf-specific exercises. They don’t have to be heavy or cumbersome. You’d be surprised what a 5 to 8 pound pair of dumbbells can accomplish with the right golf exercises.

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Next on the list of golf fitness equipment is tubing. You may have seen it in articles, on the television or in a catalog. Exercise tubing is extremely portable, very inexpensive and also can be used to mimic many phases of the golf swing, but with resistance.

I personally use exercise tubing in all of my programs, with all of my personal clients and in my own golf workouts. It can give you one heck of a workout if you have the right resistance. These bands come in varying tensions from light to extra heavy.

Another piece of golf fitness equipment is a stability ball. It’s the big ‘beach ball’ looking thing that is used in offices to sit on, in many exercise classes, at most health clubs and all of the physical therapy clinics.

Why? Because again it’s portable, inexpensive and very versatile. Doing golf exercises on the ball incorporate core stabilization, balance and stability. All important factors in a mechanically sound golf swing.

And the last piece of golf fitness equipment is a weighted medicine ball. You might remember them from several decades ago as the big leather balls that the old fitness fanatics used to improve strength and power.

Well now they’re back! They are used in every sport-specific strength program in existence. You can do so many sport-like movements with them and they weigh as much as 20 pounds, so you can imagine the benefit from a power standpoint.

I have a couple of my ‘bread-and-butter’ exercises I use in all my programs that incorporate the weighted medicine ball and they are very effective.

So there you have it! Four pieces of inexpensive and portable golf fitness equipment.

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NOTE: Make sure to check out the video “5 Essential Golf Fitness Exercises” below.

5 Essential Golf Fitness Exercises

Golf fitness is a must if you really want to play your best and prevent injuries.  It’s all over the internet, TV and radio and becoming the sole ambition of  amateur golfers so as to realize their full true potential.  Many golfers have accepted there is a fitness component to golf, and are actively training to get fit for golf.

It may sound like an contradiction,  but tell me if you’ve ever hurt yourself playing golf.  How about a strained lower back?  Or, a sore shoulder after playing?  The list of injuries from swinging a golf club is a mile long.
This would defend the point that getting fit for golf is NOT  a contradiction,  but is actually a necessity, if you want to end the frustration, and play like you know you are can.

Golf is a ‘physical’ game that puts a tremendous amount of stress on the body.  Muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints pay the price if your golf muscles are not strong enough to withstand the forces from a golf swing at a speed up to and exceeding 100 mph.

Think about that!
You swing a 3 foot implement at up to 100 mph, while maintaining a very dynamic body position.  That’s physically impossible unless you’ve got the muscular strength and flexibility to achieve these swing mechanics.

Look at putting!  How often have you practiced for only 5-10 minutes and your lower back was killing you?  You know what the culprit was?  Tight hamstrings and a weak lower back.  Golfers who are fit for golf don’t experience this.  They can practice putting for an hour and not feel it.

Wouldn’t that be nice?

How about hitting out of deep rough?  How many times did you leave the ball right where it was when you started?  Or if you did advance it, your wrist was killing you after it?

This would not happen if your were fit for golf!

You’ve got to take a look at the facts!  Golf like all sport is ‘physical’.  Golf takes a tremendous amount of strength and flexibility.  Golf causes injuries to body’s that are out of shape.  Golf is frustrating when you are the shortest hitter in your foursome.  Golf can make you crazy!
Stop the insanity…and Get Fit For Golf!

P.S. Don’t forget to warm up first!

5 Essential Golf Fitness Exercises

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Effective golf swing training programs that can be done in your home or office with minimal and very affordable equipment.

Golf fitness training might sound grueling, sweaty and a lot of work! Doesn’t have to be that way. Now of course I’d be lying to you to say it’s easy and you won’t have to make a small commitment, and stick with it to see results.

But what I am saying is…you can easily participate in a Golf fitness training program with minimal equipment and can do it right in your home or even your office.

How ?

With only a stability ball, exercise tubing and a pair of handweights. Grand total…under $60 for your “total golf fitness gym”. That’s about one months membership to your local club that you’ll visit once or twice and never go back (but keep paying every month).

I want you to get that picture out of your head of the “muscle-bound” hulk, heaving hundreds of pounds with on arm, slamming it to the floor and letting out the infamous LOUD GRUNT for attention.

No..you’ll be doing golf-specific exercises with bands, balls and handweights that will quickly and directly benefit your golf swing. Sports conditioning or in this instance golf fitness training requires you to use your body in space incorporating balance, stabilization and sequence of timing just like your golf swing.

The direct correlation results in longer, more accurate drives, hitting a larger number of greens in regulation and walking off the course beating the pants off of your playing partners.

Now that’s “instant gratification” at its best!

And how about no more injuries! I’m dead serious! All those aches and pains finally gone. Forever! A stronger more flexible body will have a much higher level of resistance to pain and injury. And the added bonus is swinging “easier” and with much less effort, but seeing the ball go much further and straighter. It will feel like an “out-of-body” experience.

A few words of caution!

If you hear or see any programs touting they are golf fitness training and see the golfer and/or trainer using the basic machines in the gym, this is NOT golf fitness training. This is without a doubt “general fitness”. Not altogether a bad thing, but won’t directly help your golf game.

Working on a stability ball, and using tubing and handweights you can mimic many phases of the golf swing and at the same time challenge your core stabilization, balance and muscular endurance. All critical factors in achieving optimal swing mechanics for 18 holes.

And…they’re fun to use. You’ll never get board. You can always make it more challenging from a balance and/or stabilization factor.

Just try to get one of those “muscle-heads” on a stability ball lifting the same heavy weights they use. Call the medics..cause it’s going to get ugly real quick.

You see…most people who workout in the gym never challenge their proprioceptive awareness (or simply…using their body in space). This is the key to great golf.

The stronger you can get your core stabilizers, coupled with increased rotational flexibility…you’re headed to an awesome game of golf. You’ll definitely be the envy of your foursome.

So don’t hesitate to get started on your golf fitness training right away!