I always hear senior golfers talk about their golf flexibility, and how much range of motion they’ve lost throughout the years. While playing with them it is quite obvious they are correct, but I need to also add most of them have very weak golf muscles as well.
So many times a senior golfer thinks a few golf stretches a couple times a weak will do the trick. I’m a firm believer in “anything is better than nothing”, but the reality is… you need to do it more often and incorporate golf strength training to see improvement in your power, distance and overall game.
Let me give you an example.
A senior golfer does a few golf stretches, but no golf weight training. The result is the muscle range of motion is not permanent. The senior golfer did not strengthen the muscle in this newfound range of motion and it wasn’t able to maintain it.
Now another scenario is strengthening those golf muscles with resistance in the same range of motion that you are doing with your golf stretching. The muscle gets stronger and is able to keep this new range.
The end result is a BIGGER backswing… more POWER… AND LONGER tee shots conistently!