The ultimate purpose of any piece of golf fitness equipment is to lower the scores of the golf player. The golf fitness equipment helps the golfer achieve this by improving the user’s physical fitness, with focus on the muscles involved primarily in swinging a club.
But the marketplace can get so deluged with all sorts of equipment for golf improvement that it becomes difficult to separate the grain from the chaff.
Getting the right information can keep you from falling prey to sales pitches that seem better at ensuring that your garage gets loaded with stuff that don’t help any, or worse, make you a poorer player -- than at improving your game. Which pieces of golf fitness products are duds, and which ones really help?
The weighted club is a piece of equipment that I find very useful. This particular aid is one truly sports-specific apparatus. The motions you execute are the exact same ones you go through with a real golf club, only with the benefit of the added resistance of greater weight to increase your strength.
With this fitness equipment for golf, you can’t be more sure that the muscles being exercised are the very same ones you use when swinging the golf club.
The inside approach trainer is another useful piece of golf equipment. It has the very specific purpose of helping to correct the bad habit of slicing when swinging the club.
Then there is the very handy and affordable exercise tubing (or band). One of the strengths of this golf fitness equipment is that it allows users to break down the golf swing into several phases, and choose which ones they would like to concentrate practicing on with the band’s resistance.
Stability balls are a must for golfers with bad backs. These exercise balls are a great aid to performing countless forms of stretching exercises. And they can be used at home and during slack periods in the office.
Finally, the much disregarded dumbbell, or hand weight, makes a very apt tool for adding resistance to the golfer’s training regimen.
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About the Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf flexibility trainers and golf fitness 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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