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Golf Warm Up Exercise For Pain-Free Golf

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:24:39 +0000

One of the biggest mistakes I see golfers make is not properly warming up. I want to show you a simple golf warm up exercise that will not only help you par that first hole instead of double bogey, but it will allow you to play pain-free.

Like any other sport, a proper warm up to get your golf muscles ready for play is a must! How many times have you gotten to the course with only minutes to spare and you skipped your warm up? Do I need to ask what the result was? If I were a betting man, it took you several holes and many strokes to get into the groove to make good golf swings. Am I right? Come on now… be honest. I know I’m guilty of it.

Here’s the thing! The golf swing requires loose and fluid muscles to execute proper golf swing technique. You’re not going to get this by wishing it. You need to take initiative and do some simple golf exercises to create these loose, limber muscles that will produce maximum golf power.

Also, I want to discuss tension in your golf swing. Tension kills speed. No speed means no power. No power means short golf drives. Does that sound like something you’d be thrilled with? To eliminate tension, you need to get… and keep your muscles warmed up. The minute they start getting cold, tension will creep into your golf swing, killing your efficiency and consistency. When you follow my advice, your warmed up muscles will produce an increase in clubhead speed.

Okay… we’re getting closer to the exercise I am going to show you, but not yet! I now want to talk about hitting golf balls. Again… like in any other sport, you FIRST warm up your muscles BEFORE you participate in your specific sport movement. So golfers… that means BEFORE you hit even one golf ball, you must at a minimum, do the below, simple golf warm up exercise. Promise me that!

Golf Warm Up Exercise

This is what I call a “multi-joint” movement to get all the major muscles, joints and tendons in your body warmed up. If you only have a minute or two to warm up, this is the best, most effective exercise to get your entire body ready to play pain free golf.

Instructions:

Feet shoulder width apart
Place club in front of you and hold with both hands for balance
Lower body by bending at the knees not hips and raise club at same time.
Raise back up and repeat 10 times
Keep upper body very erect

Benefit to Golf Swing:

Increase blood flow and circulation through out body
Great total body warm up to allow body to make a relaxed, comfortable first swing
Increase range of motion in hips encouraging a more synchronized swing from the ground up

Another very effective way to prepare your body to practice or play is to use a golf swing weight on the end of your golf club. It’s very similar to using a weighted club, but this is a portable aid you can quickly insert on your club, and remove it when you’re ready to go play. You can throw it in your golf bag.

Golf Resource

This is a shameless plug, but my Power Golf Training Ebook has a complete chapter on not only a First Tee Warm Up, but I have a golf stretch for every part of your body, before, during and even after you play.

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Golf Stretch For Bigger Backswing

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:05:45 +0000

Golfers struggle to make a full backswing. The effort is there, but the physical capability is not. Making a bigger backswing takes focused training with golf specific stretches targeting the exact golf muscles used in your backswing. This is an easy fix for golf shoulder turn issues. All you’ve got to do is a simple golf stretch like the one below, and you’ll quickly see improvement in your backswing range of motion.

Notice how I’m doing this right in my office with a golf club. I am sure you have an extra club laying around to be able to do the same thing. I like this stretch so much I even have it on the cover of my stretching ebook. Notice the resemblance between the two pictures It targets a very specific muscle (the lead rear area of the shoulder). This is a very tight muscles with most golfers, especially if the aging bug is creeping up on you.

Improving in golf by stretching is something that cannot be ignored!

Instructions:
• Sit in chair and extend left arm in front of you (if you are a right handed golfer).
• Take both hands and put on top of club.
• Drop upper body down against club to feel a stretch in your left shoulder.
• Hold for at least 15 seconds, repeat once more.

Benefit to Golf Swing:
• Improve back swing range of motion, allowing for a bigger shoulder turn and generating more club head speed.
• Stretch back of shoulder for more range, but with-in golf swing.
• Indirectly improve trunk rotation while maintaining golf posture.

This is one stretch out of many in my Total Golf Stretching Downloadable Ebook.

Click on the big image below if you want to find out more. For only $20, this golf fitness ebook is well worth it!

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Lower Back Rotational Golf Stretch In Office

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:12:49 +0000

I’ve heard all the “excuses” to not exercise. Notice how I called them excuses. That’s what they. I want to prove this theory by showing you a simple, very effective golf stretch you do in your office WITHOUT GETTING OUT OF YOUR CHAIR! Now there is NO WAY you can give me the excuse of “lack of time”. You (and I) sit in our office chairs 8-10 hours a DAY.

I have found that when I stay moving while I’m at the computer my body feels so much better, and my energy level stays very high. AND…my aches and pains are not there when I do these simple golf stretches.

I strongly advise you to do this one and then slowly add some more throughout the day targeting different areas of your body. You’ll be amazed at how fast your pain will go away, and how much BETTER you feel, when you take 15 seconds out of your day and do these simple stretches.

I call this simple stretch the Seated Twist:

Instructions:

Sit upright in your office chair, with chest high and back straight.
Reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body.
While staying very erect, twist as far as you can go and hold.
Twist the other way and repeat.
Go both sides 2-3 times, holding for 10 seconds.

Benefits to the golf swing:

Increase rotation of trunk for an improve “x-factor”.
Loosen up lower back, to reduce strain and tightness, freeing up golf swing.
Improve ability to rotate upper body over a “fixed” lower body, like in your swing.

This is not some mysterious stretch, as you probably have seen it before, and if so, can I ask if you do it regularly? If not, do it right now, and then a couple of times each day.

This is one stretch out of many in my Total Golf Stretching Downloadable Ebook.

Click on the big image below if you want to find out more. For only $20, this golf fitness ebook is well worth it!

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