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How Fitness Has Changed The Face Of The PGA Tour
Professional golfers on the tour today are approaching fitness as they never have before. PGA players look to fitness for many of its benefits. Fitness can improve their game through gains in strength, flexibility, and stamina. They can prevent or minimize injuries. Playing golf is not only a recreation for PGA players, it is their job. Their financial success depends on tournament results. Therefore, they must not only maintain a superb golf game, but a fit body as well.
Shoulder Stretches for Golf
Performing shoulder exercises and stretches are important to ensuring that you have a good swing. Stretching the rotator cuff muscles, those found in your shoulders that allow you to move your shoulder in a circular motion, increases flexibility and ensures a more natural and fluid golf swing.
Warm Up With A Back Exercise For Golf
Let’s face it, if you are a passionate golfer who likes to hit the links whenever you have the opportunity, at some point in time you are likely to be faced with lower back pain. Fortunately, there are some great exercises that will help you work through lower back pain, and also prevent it from occurring in the first place.
Perform Better Golf With These Fitness Tips
Everyone wants to be able to perform better golf, and with these three tips you’ll be on your road to becoming a better golfer.
What Can A Single Digit Handicap Golfer Do That You Can't?
Chances are that if you’re an avid golfer, you’d love to be a single digit handicap golfer. So what do these golfers have that you don’t? You may be thinking they’re simply “better golfers,” and they may be true, but odds are they are also more in tune with how their level of fitness affects their ability to play a great round of golf.
Balance Your Checkbook and Golf Swing
We all search for it. Balance in our daily lives. Balance while riding a bike. Politicians are always debating a balanced budget in Washington, and most of us could use a little balance in our checkbooks. Balance is a term used in golf quite often as well. It’s a “buzzword” and almost a cliché when it comes to the golf swing. I am sure you have heard numerous times from swing coaches that “you have to stay balanced when swinging your club.” Others phrases that I hear when we talk about golf ...
Play Better Longer: Reducing Golf Related Injury
On the surface golf may look to be a slow paced low impact sport with little risk of injury. However, as many golfers have unfortunately discovered looks can be deceiving. The “Physician and Sports Medicine“ Journal reports 57% to 67.5% of all golfers will sustain some type of golf related injury.
Becoming an Ageless Golfer
It happens to all of us, even though we do not want to admit it. The reality is we all get older. Some of you may already know what I am talking about, and others may have yet to experience the phenomenon of aging. Those of you who are reading this article and are no longer “spring chickens” get my drift. Even if you are one of the lucky ones, still young, let me fill you in on what happens as the body gets a few miles on it.
Which Golf Training Aids Improve Your Game?
When you think of golf training aids, a number of them probably come to mind. For putting, you can invest in a putting mat and cup. For your swing you can buy a self-correcting club, or one with a computerized swing analyzer. There are many magazines and videos on the market that tell you how to improve virtually every aspect of your game.
Golf Stretching Secrets to Improve Performance
The trend in larger and therefore heavier club heads in recent years has made golf stretching secrets even more important to acquire.
Women's Golf And Exercise
While golf is long overdue to benefit from the application of fitness, thanks to women like Annika Sorenstam, women are now realizing strength training and flexibility conditioning aren’t just for men. The benefits on the golf course are well worth the effort of sticking to a regular golf fitness regime.
Preparing Your Body For Golf While You Travel
We all know the temptations of traveling… grabbing a slice of pizza while running to your gate at the airport, an elaborate steak dinner with a client, and being so tired at day’s end that all you want to do is fall into bed. Traveling can often create havoc on regular exercise and golf conditioning. Fitness and good nutrition while on the road can help keep you on top of your game. With a bit of planning and creative strategy you can help keep your body ready to hit the golf course.
How To Achieve Longer Golf Drives
Longer golf drives are the desire of every golfer. Yet this is something that remains elusive to many golfers.
What Should Be Your Golf Training Priority?
This is a question that is often asked for the simple reason that knowing one’s golf training priority will enable them to improve their game within the shortest possible time.
Can a Stability Ball Help You Strengthen Your Core For Golf?
Some call it a Swiss Ball, some call it a fitness ball, others use the more modern term ‘stability ball.’ Whatever you call it, the stability ball has been used in exercise and rehabilitation for years and has recently been adopted by personal trainers and fitness instructors for use in strength training and muscle development, especially when it comes to exercises designed to strengthen the core muscles.
Is The Golf Ball The Real Reason For Longer Drives ?
A Little History First To determine this point, we have to travel back in time and see how the original golf ball was formed. The original golf balls as most of us know, were made from goose feathers stuffed into a round leather ball. It is estimated that those could be hit as far as 170 yards with the modern club. The next technological advance was the gutta percha ball. This was made from tree sap or rubber and compressed into a round mould. A modern club can hit this ...
Why Exercise Is Crucial In Achieving The Correct Golf Swing
Achieving the correct golf swing is the magic key that will open all the doors to better and more enjoyable golf.
What Will A Good Golf Stretching Program Do For Your Golf?
There are many things that a good golf stretching program will do for a persons’ game. Firstly a golf stretching program will tremendously improve the golf swing in terms of the power as well as helping the golfer to control the direction. These are two key aspects that will help to spectacularly reduce the score of any golfer. A golf stretching program will also help a golfer significantly reduce on the risk of injury which can keep them away from the course for a long time. ...
Getting To The Core Of Your Golf Swing
At some point, almost all of us struggle with efforts to improve our golf game. Many will try videos, books, hours with a teaching pro, the newest club, and swing after swing to no avail. While there’s some improvement, it’s just not what you’d anticipated. What could be the problem?
Golf Stretching Exercises Have A Direct Impact On Your Drives
Golf stretching exercises have been known to have such a huge impact on the golf swing that their popularity amongst golfers has spread like wild fire in recent years.
Teenagers Top The Leader Board At The Women's US Open
Determination, poise, focus and talent were abundant, as teens topped the leader board at the 2005 Women’s US Open. Younger players at the 2005 US Women’s Open gained much more than experience. They definitely made their impact as the future leaders in womens golf Michelle Wie (15), Morgan Pressel (17), Paula Creamer (18) and Brittany Lang (19) were among some of the teens competing on the course at Cherry Hills Village, CO for the coveted title of Women’s US Open champion. All three ...
Too Many Online Golf Tips...which one do I take?
Online golf tips are on the increase. This is hardly surprising because we are in the information age and virtually every kind of information you can think of has increased tremendously in quantity over the internet and continues to do so at a rapid rate.
Strength Training For Junior Golf
Much debate has occurred about kids and strength training. There’s been concern about growth plate damage. There’s been discussion of whether it increases their likelihood of future success or simply places them at increased stress both physically and mentally. Here’s a few notes on the correct way to have a junior golfer build a strong, healthy body. First there are definite differences between adolescent boys and adolescent girls with respect to strength and strength production. ...
Golf Specific Weight Training...Don't Fear It
The fascinating thing about golf-specific weight training is that despite the fear many golfers have of it, there is really nothing to be afraid of.
Golf Training Uses Flexibility, Strength, And Power
When it comes to fitness training for your golf game which is most important: flexibility, strength, or power? Flexibility advocates stress the importance of being able to swing a club through a full range of motion completely uninhibited of physical restrictions. Strength training advocates claim that building muscle will enable you to hit your drive farther. Power training supporters assert that developing and utilizing power based exercises can benefit drives and fairway shots. Who ...
Can A Golf Swing Video Change your Game?
There are many golfers who have been exposed to many a golf swing video and yet there has been no effect on their game. At least not a positive one.
Benefits of A Golf Fitness Stretch Trainer
Hardly any professional worth his name today will dare approach their game without a golf fitness stretch trainer of sorts. The game of golf has changed tremendously in recent times.
Play Better Golf Through Exercise
Play better golf. Isn’t that what every golfer thinks about 24/7? Golf can be the most humbling game you will ever play…but we keep coming back for more. To play better golf consistently you need to look at the source.
Creating A Golf Fitness Program
For the average golfer embarking on a total golf fitness program may sound a little overwhelming. Fitting the program into your schedule on a regular basis may seem like something for which you simply don’t have the time. However, it’s not as hard to accomplish as you may be thinking. The benefits will apply not only to better golf, but to increased fitness and stamina in other areas of your life as well. The time spent can be a great investment in yourself both on and off the course.
More Muscles Than You Think Are Used In the Golf Swing
While most golfers are aware of the fact that the muscles in the lower part of the body are used in the golf swing, many are not aware of just how important these muscles are to the consistent execution of the perfect golf swing. Many do not even realize how imperative it is that muscles used in the golf swing are exercised and kept in tip top condition. Actually, if this is not done, it becomes extremely difficult to for anybody to enjoy the game as too many factors stand in the way of a ...