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"Turn Your Golfing Partners GREEN With Envy"

By Jason Zaretzky

There you are standing at the tee with all the latest gadgets and golfing gear that guarantees to increase your golf game. You set up and start to swing that $500 driver back across your body, but something seems to hold you back… It appears that you can’t draw the club past your belly, or you just do not have the range of motion in your shoulders and hips to get that powerful backswing needed to drive the ball down the fairway. Instead, your backswing looks like a ¾ draw back and the ball ends up somewhere in the deep rough.

Does this sound like you?

Well, get ready because a big change is about to take place. There is a new solution to increasing your golf game. It’s not another gadget or device you see on the shopping network, it is strength and conditioning. All the big time pros like Tiger Woods have revolutionized the way we look at and play the game. He has literally changed the way golfers prepare for competition. Tiger Woods and his peers continue to excel in their golf game due to participating in a serious strength and conditioning program. Even Phil Mickeleson who can whack the ball a ton, but has poor fairway – hitting percentages, has incorporated a conditioning program into his training regimen and has reaped the benefits.

Golf is comprised of power, endurance, and shoulder/hip mobility. This is why an exercise program can be extremely beneficial to success on the links. However, your typical bodybuilding based exercise program that most golfers resort to, can actually decrease you performance on the golf course. So to successfully implement golf specific conditioning programs here are a few tips to consider:

Core Training – Known as the area that covers your midsection. In any golf specific program this should be a main focus. See the core is the central part of the body where all movement is generated and controlled. Without strengthening and stabilizing the core (hips, abdominals, and back muscles), your arms which are the main body part moving in golf will never be able to generate the force you need them to.

Hip and Shoulder Mobility – As a golf swing should be fluid and smooth if you lack the proper range of motion in the shoulder and hip joints, your swing will just be plain out rigid and your strokes will suffer. That’s why is important for any golfer to address flexibility throughout the entire body (especially in the shoulder and hip regions). When your joints have optimal ranges of motion it will free your muscles up and allow for more powerful drives off the tee.

Power + Endurance = the Superior Golfer – A combination of some intense resistance training coupled with endurance work will address the energy demands of the golfer. Just being Powerful won’t cut it. It’s the golfers that are driving the ball just as far off the tee in the 18th hole that they do in the 1st are the golfers that prosper.

Conclusion

As you now see, golf conditioning is quite unique. As golf fitness is now booming beware that machines, gadgets, or devices that guarantee to enhance your golf performance, can be very deceiving. Just realize that the secret to enhancing you golf game requires a full spectrum of proper training, stretching, and total body work. By simply following these steps you can develop into a complete golfer. A well balanced conditioning program will only reduce injuries and improve you golf scores.

About the Author:

Jason Zaretzky is Owner and Program Director of Optimal Performance Training. He specializes in athletic performance enhancement, corrective exercise, and physique alteration. Jason is committed to optimizing your results. He has helped a countless number of individuals and athletes look, feel, and perform at optimal levels, through his system of scientific results oriented programming.

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