Golf Exercise Program

Golfers are on the hunt for longer drives and golf specific exercise is your ticket on the fast track! Longer drives require muscular power and higher clubhead speed. This can ONLY be accomplished by strengthening your golf swing muscles specific to the movements of your swing.

Too many times I see golfers in the gym doing “general” exercises on machines and complaining they have seen improvement in their driving distance.

I’m not surprised!

Machines are “controlled” and usually isolate ONE muscle group at a time.

The golf swing is dynamic, free-flowing, and usines many muscles in a specific sequence of motion.

With that being said, wouldn’t you train your body as specific to your golf swing as possible? Wouldn’t you use resistance like exercise tubing, dumbbells, and medicine balls to accomplish this? I sure would!

Golf specific exercises are also rotational in nature just like your golf swing.  They are also on your feet like the golf swing. Many of these exercises can even be done in your golf posture.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea!

If you’re a golfer in your late 50’s and up you no doubt have experienced a drop in your driving distance, accuracy and consistency. Am I right? If so, I can tell you, you’re wasting your time taking more golf lessons and hitting more balls.

You must first work on YOUR BODY!

The physical decline of your body is what’s causing your lack of improvement in golf. Until you realize this, you will be one FRUSTRATED golfer for a LONG time!

Seek out a golf exercise dvd or golf exercise book to give you the direction you need to improve these physical limitations and get you back on track to playing the kind of golf you know you’re capable of.

You see…exercise for golf doesn’t have to be grueling, but it does have to be specific to YOUR needs. Evaluating your weaknesses is the first step to designing a golf exercise program that will be geared to you personally.

You will soon be AMAZED at your improvement!

As a senior golfer, the sky is your limit! You truly can improve 80%-100% from where you currently are, and imagine what that will do to your driving distance, accuracy and consistency?

You will soon be ENJOYING the game again!

Any golfer should realize the benefits of golf exercise. In fact, you should view exercise totally different after reading this brief golf articles. First off…I’m a big believer in modeling. What I mean by this is finding someone who does what you want to do REALLY well and copy it completely.

Well…in golf it’s Tiger Woods. What does Tiger do that many golf don’t do?

It’s a golf exercise program!

Your body needs to be in shape if you want to enjoy your golf. You know this…I know you do!

The critical issue is doing it! Making it a habit. Finding a program that suits your schedule and enjoyment is the main thing to being successful with it.

Golf Exercise Benefits

Stronger golf muscles for more power, distance and stability (consistency) in your golf swing.

Looser muscles for an effortless swing with no tension allowing you to maximize power without damaging your body into a golf injury.

Being able to play 2 maybe even 3 rounds in one day and not fatique, which means you’ll blow away your foursome by the second round for sure.

Slow the aging process and enjoy your golf for years to come.

Look better and feel better than you have in years!

I could go on and on, but I think the above is more than enough reason to get started RIGHT NOW!

When golfers start their season, they are to the point of superstitious about hurting their golf games. One area they avoid like the plague is golf exercise. Are you one of them? Do you think that exercising during the season is going to hurt your game? In case you haven’t been watching the television and tour events, ALL the touring pros workout during the season and definitely during the week of a tournament. The only difference is they modify their golf exercise program to suite the demands of tour play.

You can do the same thing. Instead of doing an entire program that may take up to 90 minutes to complete, do a modified one that can be done in less than 20 minutes a day, or do Mike Pedersen’s 3 Minutes For 30 Days golf exercise program, which has one unique golf exercise per day…that’s it! One exercise and you’re done and feeling great!

Doing something daily is much better than not doing anything at all. You’ve got to keep your body tuned for golf. If you don’t, your golf swing will start to break down resulting in shorter drives, more inconsistent shots, and HIGHER scores!

I want you to become more aware of the physical demand the golf swing puts on your body and start making changes in your current program to prevent any physical breakdown in your swing. It’s not as hard as you think.

Most golfers can’t imagine exercising to enhance their golf performance. They view golf as a leisure game that is more social than competitive. Now that’s not all golfers…as many of them do want to play better, and even some want to win their club championship or local tournaments.

For those of you who want to play better as you get older, the ONLY way is to strengthen and stretch your golf swing muscles on a consistent basis (preferably daily). You cannot expect to play good golf is your body is physically declining. This is IMPOSSIBLE! A weak and tight body will NEVER make a good swing…especially on a consistent basis for 18 holes.

With all this being said…what really is golf exercise?

Golf exercise is NOT going to a GYM and plopping down on a machine! I can’t tell you this strong enough. Golf is done ON YOUR FEET… in a very unique and very uncomfortable position called “golf posture”. How ever could SITTING on a machine help your golf swing? It CAN’T! No way!

Many golf exercises should be done either on your feet or on a stability ball where you can utilize your core muscles which are definitely used in your golf swing and can generate a high level of clubhead speed…which results in LONGER DRIVES.

Many of these exercises for golf should be rotational in nature, since the main movement in golf is turning (rotational). I laugh when I see trainers who say they are golf fitness trainers doing basic ab crunchs with their clients. Now…if you have a very out of shape golfer, then yes…you should build up the core strength before you start doing rotational exercises.

Mimic golf swing mechanics with resistance.

This is one of the easiest ways to accomplish your golf exercise goals. Break your golf swing into phases and use exercise tubing, dumbbells or medicine balls as resistance. A good example would be the baseball player swing a weighted bat. Very sport-specific. Golfers need to think the same way.

Well…I think that’s enough for now!