Golfers no longer turn their heads to the thought of a weight training for golfers progrm to improve their golf swing and performance. Improving strength in your golf specific muscles will increase driving distance and add power to your swing.
Weight Training Specific To Your Golf Swing
The golf swing is a dynamic movement that requires strength to be applied in a sequential manner. Your body is in a position (golf posture) that also requires a cerain level of strength in key muscles like the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back.
Strengthening muscles like the above mentioned will allow your body to maintain perfect golf posture for 18 holes. This is the goal of every golfer. To be consistent for the entire round.
You want more power in your downswing? Then strengthening your core rotational muscles with weight training exercises for golfers will give you that and more. The sooner you begin to realize lifting weights is not detrimental to your game, the sooner you start seeing improvement.
Dynamic Training With Weights
What I mean by dynamic training is not your standard bicep curls or squat like the guys in the gym do. I am talking about doing weight training exercises with dumbbells that are very similar to your golf swing, making them dynamic exercises that you will benefit from.
A good example is the single arm backswing exercise with a dumbbell. Picture taking the club back from address with just your left hand (if you are right-handed) to the halfway point, but instead be holding a dumbbell.
This is just one example that should reassure you that weight training for golfers will not hurt your golf swing.
Improved Golf Swing Power And Distance
To improve the power in your swing, you need to focus on core rotational exercises with weights. The golf swing is a rotation back and a rotation through, so focusing on this movement pattern with resistance will give you the biggest return on your investment.
You will never see the guys in the gym doing this type of weight training program. In fact, most of the people in the gym isoloate one muscle for the purpose of making it look better.
Focusing on your core with weights will not only improve your power, but also build up strength in your lower back, preventing future back injuries.
Stronger Body Means Better Game
The end result of a weight training for golfers program is a stronger body specific to your golf swing. Being able to swing aggressively, but in control. At the same time, not feeling like you have to swing out of your shoes to hit it a long way.
Golf is becoming a game of power on tour. It seems everybody is hitting it over 300 yards now. That doesn't mean amateur golfers have to apsire to this, but hitting with more power does have some obvious advantages.
Being stronger will allow you to get through 18 holes with the same swing you started with on hole #1. What a dream to be as strong on 18 as you felt on the first hole.
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About the Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top weight training for golfers 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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