Do you want to achieve greater driving distance from your golf swing? If so, core golf strength training may be one of the things you need. Core golf strength training involves strengthening that part of your body (the core) that influences the distance and power your golf swing.
Improve the Power of Your Golf Swing
The core we speak of here can be conveniently be defined as the muscles around the middle area of your body involved in athletic activity. They are mainly the abdominals, but hip flexors, lower back muscles, and the glutes, or buttocks have their contributions to make.
Together, they generate the strength that powers the whack from your backswing to your downswing. Core strength for golf is like having a coiled spring in your midsection that unwinds explosively as you release the pent up energy to your upper body. If the core is weak and does not rotate as fully as possible, torque will be suboptimal. Needless to say, so will the distance your golf ball can reach.
Train To Strengthen Your Core
Your core golf strength training program should center around the basic movement of the swing, which is rotational. A routine using one or a combination the following equipment may be drawn: dumbbells, exercise tubing, and weighted medicine and stability balls. These should make the training worth your while ?and investment.
A Rotational Exercise For Golf Specific Core Strength
Because the golf swing has a rotational movement,
core golf strength exercises should, therefore, be
rotational. The Seated Twist with Tubing
is a good example of a core golf strength exercise,
outlined here in several easy steps:
- Attach the tubing to a door at a height of three feet from the floor.
- Position the exercise ball as far from the door as the tubing will allow.
- When seated, you should be sideways from the door rather than facing it.
- Grasp tube handles with both hands, arms extended outward from the chest.
- Swing hands away from the door, stretching the tubing tight./lir>
- Return motion should end just short of the starting position, maintaining tension, rather than pausing to rest.
- Execute the swing in 12 repetitions (reps).
- Do the same for the opposite direction, by facing the other way, again in 12 reps. - Complete three sets of 12 reps for each direction.
Add yards to your drive by building up the strength in your core for golf. With proper training is one surefire way to do this!
I hope you now see how important it is to improve the strength of your core gofl muscles. The ball is in your court now! Will you get proactive and take the next step?
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About the Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf strength trainers and golf conditioning experts in the country, author of the Ultimate Golf Fitness Manual, and founder of several online golf fitness and exercise websites.
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