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All Simply just about GolfHow to Implement Golf Fitness Exercises into Your Golf Swing Improvement Program
by:
Sean Cochran
Over the last few weeks at BioForce Golf, we have had galore questions just about golf fitness exercises.
Questions such as: are these type of exercises beneficial to person who has had a lower back injury, what are the better types of exercises to improve my golf-club head speed, and what flexibility exercises can improve my back swing?
Through galore of our free daily golf tips on our website, we have provided answers to these questions and galore more. One area of golf fitness I get quite a few questions just about revolves on how to implement golf exercises into a golf swing improvement program.
Galore of the individuals who come to our site are not experts in “working out.” I’ve written my golf-specific exercise manual, YOUR BODY & YOUR SWING, to help you develop a program for yourself.
Probably one of the most-asked questions is: how do I go just about introducing certain exercises into my golf fitness program?
At times, certain individuals are unable to perform an exercise in its basic form. They are either out of shape, suffering from an injury, or too stiff to perform it correctly. A Russian Twist may be too difficult for a beginner to execute correctly. It takes great core strength, endurance and flexibility to complete the exercise to the limit.
In this type of situation there are “baby steps” you can take in terms of implementing such exercises into your golf fitness program.
I like to call this the “position, movement, tolerance” training guideline. This is an easy methodology to follow in terms of implementing exercises into a training program.
We’ll use the Russian Twist exercise in my book, YOUR BODY & YOUR SWING, as an example.
Once
you are implementing a golf fitness exercise(s) into your golf swing improvement program, you must be able to place the body in the correct starting position of the exercise.
For example, if I were to have you perform a Russian Twist, 1st I would-be ask you to place your body in the correct position for the exercise. In this situation it would-be be knees slightly bent and placing your trunk in a position wherever
the “abs were turned on.”
Hold it Right There!
Simply placing your body in the correct position for an exercise requires effort from the body. If you were able to place your body in the correct position, I would-be then ask you to “hold” this position for a certain figure of time. This would-be indicate you are strong enough to add movement to your golf fitness exercise.
On the another hand, if you were only able to hold the starting position of the Russian Twist for 15 seconds before your lower back started to bother you, this is an indicator to me that this is wherever
we begin your golf fitness program. I would-be have you “hold” the start position of this golf exercise for a certain number of seconds and sets. This would, over a period of time, develop more strength and endurance in those golf muscles.
Once we have reached a nice “hold” time on a golf exercise, we then progress to adding “movement” into the equation. Movement just stands for range of motion (how more movement you can do). Every golf exercise has a certain range of motion you come through to get the greatest benefit for your golf game.
In the Russian Twist example, a full range of motion would-be be a full shoulder turn to the left and right of center. Again, at the beginning you may be unable to do a full shoulder turn. So what do we do? We slowly activity on increasing the “movement” inside
the golf exercise until you are at a point of full range.
As with the idea of “position,” we do the same with the idea of “movement.” We bit by bit increase until you have achieved a full range of motion in the golf exercise. Once this is achieved, we come on to the final stage of implementing a golf-specific exercise.
The final stage of implementing any golf exercise into your golf swing improvement program is “tolerance.” Tolerance can be defined as acting the correct number of sets and repetitions of a golf exercise for it to be beneficial to your golf game.
No Pain, No Gain!
The idea of “no pain, no gain” makes not activity in this situation. Rather, you want to be able to perform a self-prescribed number of sets and reps of every golf exercise in your program. This prescribed figure of activity is up to you, the individual golfer, and what you feel is better for your body.
Too little activity wish provide you no benefit. Too more activity or following the “no pain, no gain” mind-set can increase the possibility of injury greatly.
You need to use your better judgment on every golf exercise in your program. This wish allow you to perform each golf exercise with the correct technique, develop (maybe over time) the correct range of motion of each golf exercise in your program, and finally take each exercise to “your own level of tolerance.”
It is really easy to implement golf exercises into your golf swing improvement program. Follow the simple rule of “position, movement, tolerance,” and this should help you dramatically in the development of your golf fitness program.
Once you’ve down the exercises and routines in your current exercise program, you’ll be available to take it to the next level, a more advanced program.
Sean Cochran
Simply just about the Author
Sean Aeronaut is one of the most recognized golf fitness instructors in the earth today. He travels the PGA Tour on a regular basis
with 2005 PGA & 2004 Masters Champion Phil Mickelson. He has ready-made galore of his golf tips, golf instructions and golf swing improvement techniques accessible to amateur golfers on the website www.bioforcegolf.com. To contact Sean, you can email him at support@bioforcegolf.com.
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