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The Engine that Drives Your Golf Swing Power and Distance

Posted on Friday, 25th March 2011 in Golf Fitness

(In the golf training video below) Golf Fitness Exercise Trainer Mike Pedersen shows you simple golf exercise tips using dumbbells that will increase not only the strength but rotational range of motion to make a more powerful golf swing.

Core flexibility training is critical if you want to improve your golf swing power and driving distance.  Your core is the engine to your swing.  If your core is inflexible you will not be able to make a full backswing with minimal tension.
Picture your core being the middle of your body.  That’s as simple as you can get it.  It is mainly your abdominals, but can also include glutes and lower back.  This area of your body is the most susceptible to injury.

That’s why the majority of amateur golfers have a low back injury at some point in their golfing career.  They have never focused on core flexibility training, as well as core strength training for more power.
To produce more power and distance in your swing does not mean swinging harder with your arms.  Haven’t you tried that before?  If so, did you hit it farther?  I’ll bet not.
Just like hitting a baseball, tennis ball are even throwing the discus in track and field, you use your core for most of your power.  You rotate with your core to create torque, then you unleash that stored up energy into the hit, whether it be a baseball, tennis ball or golf ball.
The more efficient you become with using your core, arms, shoulders and hands in a sequenced motion, the added distance will come quite easy.  You’ll be shocked at how quickly your driving distance goes up.
Core flexibility training incorporates “rotation”.  Golf stretching in this manner warrants the best results in the shortest amount of time!
Every core flexibility stretch you do should involve some form of rotating.  This is very important since the golf swing is a rotate (turn) back and a rotate (turn) forward.  The more range of motion you can achieve in your core area the more power you will produce.
Here’s a little test you can do while your sitting there reading this article!
Put your arms across your chest, keep your eyes focused straight ahead.  Now rotate as far as you can to the right and make a not of how far it is.  Did you get to a 90 degree shoulder turn (that’s where you need to be).  Then rotate as far as you can to the left.  How far did you get.
This will be a “wake-up” call for many of you.  If you find you can’t rotate at least 70 degrees of center, you’ll have no chance at maximizing your power and driving distance.
We do this simple core flexibility test seated to remove cheating of the lower body.  If you were standing, it would be very easy to rotate your hips and get a bigger shoulder rotation.
Being seated removes this compensation!
A seated rotation is “true” core flexibility and range of motion.
I hope I’ve educated you on the importance of core flexibility training to improve golf swing power and distance.

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Golfs Biggest Mystery: Just Improve Your Golf Fitness

Posted on Thursday, 24th March 2011 in Golf Fitness

There are three basic qualities that every golfer desires. They want to be lean. They want to be strong. And they want to be long off the tee! It doesn’t matter if you are 6’5 or 5’6. It doesn’t matter if you are male or female. And golf doesn’t discriminate by age. But, golf can discriminate by fitness and energy levels as well as good nutrition.


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A Golf Tip Worth Remembering

Posted on Monday, 25th October 2010 in Golf Fitness

A Golf Tip Worth Remembering

Golf specific five minute warm up:

While more and more golfers are using golf-exercises and physical training programs, As is true with all physical sports many amateurs do not realize how important it is to warm up first.

Like any other sport it is imperative to warm up before exercises or getting to the golf course to play or practice.

Warming up will ensure you do not start straining your muscles whilst they are still cold. There are two things that can happen to you if you choose to ignore this golf workout tip.

Golf Elbow
Firstly it is easy to pick up an injury that will hinder your progress in the game for a long time to come. One of the most dreaded injuries in golf is the golfer elbow.

Poor Performance

The second inevitable result is that even if you are lucky to escape injury despite not warming up, you will find yourself performing well below par. Your muscles will tend to be still very stiff and even performing a good golf swing will be very difficult indeed.

Performing golf warm up exercises need not be so difficult. There is a wide range of different warm up exercises you can easily perform that will take up little of your time.

For example you can walk briskly from your car to the course and if the distance is a bit too short, you can quickly walk back to your car and then back to the course again. Make sure that you exert as much effort as possible into your brisk walk.

Do some stretching exercises before you start swinging at the golf ball.

Remember this tip only takes a few minutes to practice and will help you in your efforts to improve your game and reduce the risk of injury.

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