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Building A Better Golf Body
With golf season right around the corner, most of us are either dusting off the clubs or looking at the newest equipment thinking, “This is the year it’s all going to come together!” Let’s face it, we all want to improve our golf game, but unless you work on all of the elements that contribute to success, you may not reach your potential.
1. Use the Right Equipment
Ask a golf professional to assess the “fit” of your clubs. The pro at your local golf course can fit you with the equipment that best matches your swing.
2. Take a Lesson
It’s always a good idea to take a couple of lessons before you head out on the course. Your local teaching professional can help you determine the best drills and swing techniques you need to practice to improve your score. You can also learn how to manage your competitive.
3. Get In Shape
Since faults in the swing are often faults of the body, learning how to properly prepare and train for golf can give you greater potential to improve than skill practice alone. You’ll want to perform the right exercises to make sure that your “golf body” is ready for the long season.
Research has found that warming up prior to play will improve performance. Don’t waste your time with static stretching because golfers who performed dynamic stretching exercises five times a week for five weeks improved their club-head speed by up to 24 percent with no improvement for the group of golfers who performed static stretches or hit balls at the practice range. Neither warm-up strategy adequately prepares the body for the demands of the game. If you have flaws in your swing and hit balls to warm up, then you reinforce those flaws during your practice round at the range. In addition, static stretching before the round mimics neither the speed of the swing nor warms the muscles. Instead, golfers who want to enhance their performance should invest their time in performing dynamic movements that have been proven to work.
Our recommended golf warm-up includes three dynamic movements specific to the golf swing performed in the address posture. Perform these exercises to improve your body awareness, mobility, and flexibility. Begin these exercises now and you’ll realize the gains when the season begins.
Address Posture
Stand with your knees slightly bent, back flat. Maintain this position while reaching one hand to your opposite knee, then repeat on the other side and continue by alternating for twenty reps on each side.
Backswing
Begin in a normal stance, then step forward onto the right leg then turn the trunk to the right. (Lefties step forward with left and turn trunk to the left). Step back out of the lunge and repeat twenty times.
Follow Through
Begin by placing eighty percent of your body weight on the left leg (right leg for lefties). Maintain this balance position while swinging the right arm from the backswing to a “tall” finish position. Repeat “swinging” for twenty reps.