Target Your Golf Muscles For More Power
October 30, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
If you want more power in your golf swing, you’ve got to strengthen and stretch your golf specific muscles used in the golf swing. I can say that every major muscle in the human body is a key factor, but I want you to focus on just a couple to give you massive power and distance quickly. Will it take a little effort. Absolutely! Nothing worth anything was easy right?
You’re fooling yourself if you think that pounding balls (golf practice), taking lessons, and buying new equipment is going to give you more power. Power comes from YOU! More specifically how your golf muscles respond and react during your golf swing. If they are weak or tight, they will respond slowly and very inefficiently. If they are stronger and more flexible, they will respond with RAPID and effortless speed and power. Which one do you want?
Lead Shoulder Muscle
Okay…here we go again with Tiger Woods. If you’re a senior golfer reading this article, do not think just because you are not Tiger, that this article does not apply to you. It most definitely does. Take a look at the area of the shoulder I circled. This is the SECRET power muscle in your golf swing.
I have done evaluations on thousands of golfers, and their lead shoulder is usually both tight AND weak. This saps your power as you cannot make a full turn on the backswing, and that weak/tight shoulder wants to “jump” out of your backswing cause it can’t handle the tension, causing an over the top golf swing.
There are dozens of simple golf exercises you can do right in your home with exercise tubing, light dumbbells, and even a weighted golf club that will quickly increase the strength and flexibility of this very crucial muscle.
Core Golf Muscles
This seems to be a buzzword right now. You hear the commentators use it, but I’ll bet they haven’t done one single core exercise for their games. I like to think the core is the engine to your golf swing power. The stronger you can get your core from a rotational standpoint, the higher your clubhead speed and ultimate distance will be. Improving in golf by stretching your core area will be a huge advantage to increased power.
Here’s our little secret to utilizing your core to get maximum benefits in your golf swing. Do 90% of the movements (exercises) with rotation. Do not do a standard crunch or situp. The golf swing is a turn back, and a turn through. If you implement simple, easy, fun and very effective core golf exercises, you will see a dramatic increase in your clubhead speed, power and distance.
These are the two KEY areas I want you to focus in if you want maximum driving distance. Of course there are other very important golf muscles like the forearms (wrists) and the legs, and we’ll get into that in another article, but for now, I want you to be implementing golf swing exercises targeting the above areas.
If you don’t know where to begin, I have put together the most comprehensive golf training book on the internet, that will give you all the golf exercises and stretches you need to see massive improvement.
Click on the big image below to find out more!
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My name is Mike Pedersen, and not only am I a golf swing trainer, but I am a fanatic student of the golf swing. I have spent the past 15 years studying the game.