Golf exercises within a golf fitness program can improve consistency, accuracy, distance, and your ball striking on the course.
Learn how a comprehensive fitness program can improve your game.
We know for a fact improved flexibility, strength, and power outputs from the body can have a direct impact on how well you play.
This article will discuss how a simple 5-minute warm-up incorporating golf fitness exercises can help you play better from the first tee to the last.
Professional golfers will often arrive 2-3 hours before their tee times.
During this time they will perform an extensive physical warm-up and practice session on the range before their tee time.
Understandably the amateur golfer does not usually have the time or the luxury to perform such an extensive warm-up/practice session before a round.
As result it is necessary for the amateur player to efficiently utilize the time they have before a round to prepare their body, mind, and swing for the round.
A portion of the preparation for a round of golf should consist of a warm-up, comprised of some simple golf fitness stretches and exercises.
This type of warm-up can be completed in a minimal amount of time and should be performed prior to hitting shots at the range.
It is all too common for the amateur golfer to begin a round of golf without a proper warm-up.
What other sporting event do you know of where the athlete will begin competition without a proper warm-up? Ultimately the body will function more efficiently, is at a lower risk of injury, and is prepared for activity with a proper warm-up.
A warm-up session is very different than a flexibility program.
A warm-up may include a flexibility exercise or two but overall it is comprised of low intensity exercises to prepare the body for practice or play.
The goal of the warm-up is to increase the core temperature of the body, increase blood flow to working muscles, improve neuromuscular firing, and enhance the flow of oxygen through the muscular system.
Once you have completed a warm-up, you will feel "loose", better prepared to swing a club, and ready to play eighteen.
The warm-up will also lend itself to more consistency and distance in your golf swing simply because your body is physically ready to swing a club.
The key for the amateur golfer in relation to a warm-up is time efficiency.
Time is limited before a round and the amateur must not only prepare the body but also their golf swing.
As a result we must be very resourceful in the golf fitness exercises utilized in a pre-round warm-up.
I suggest the utilization of three or four key golf fitness exercises as a part of your warm-up.
This is plenty in terms of number to prepare the body and fits nicely into a condensed time frame.
My personal favorite golf fitness exercise to implement into a warm-up program is rotators.
This is an ideal exercise to incorporate into you pre-round warm-up for a number of reasons.
Number one it is an exercise incorporating the entire body.
Number two it focuses on two troublesome areas for most golfers, the hamstrings and lower back.
And number three it involves rotation of the body - which is cross-specific to the golf swing.
Take a golf fitness exercise such as rotators and a couple more, and you will have a simple 5 minute warm-up to perform before your round.
Keep in mind how golf exercises and a warm up program can improve your round of golf.
Remember, all to often the amateur golfer will limit their success during a round because of a lack of preparation before hitting the first tee.
Take a page from the professional golfers playbook and perform a warm-up using golf fitness exercises.