Golf Fitness - Your Key To Improving Your Game

Want to gain distance on your drives and eliminate nagging back pain? What would that do for you game?

Has your golf game suffered or been permanently affected by a golf injury? Swing not quite what it used to be? Back hurt? A good golf fitness program may be your solution to a better golf game, one that is injury free.

Many golfers have found that utilizing a scientifically designed golf fitness program specific to the activity of golf has dramatically improved their endurance, swing speed, distance and flexibility.

Flexibility may be the single most important component of golf fitness. If your "golfing" muscles are tight you can't achieve the full power of your swing.

Listen to what Tiger Woods has to say on the subject of golf fitness:

"...very flexible players ... can generate tremendous clubhead speed while swinging in balance. That's also one of the keys to my power. I'm convinced that if you increase your flexibility, you'll add power to your swing."

Many golfers have turned to stretching to help with flexibility issues. But let me ask you a question. Are you stretching properly, holding them for correct amount of time or even stretching the correct muscles for golf?

Although golf is not the type of sport that requires bursts of speed like basketball or baseball, it does take a tremendous amount of force during a swing. Core training concentrates on your torso with emphasis on the abdomen, hips, and spine. This is the foundation for balance and control.

Do you fade on the back nine? Wayward shots? Legs tired? Mental mistakes? All a sign of lack of endurance. You want finish your round as strongly as you started it - and that comes with working the muscles responsible for endurance, the slow twitch muscles. Your golf fitness program should include both progressive and cyclical exercises that build endurance as well as speed and power.

Many golfers turn to training aids or the latest and greatest golf clubs to try and improve their game. Here is a secret for you. It is your body that is the machine in this game. It is your body that needs the tuneup. All the training aids and new golf clubs in the world won't help you if you have a bad swing, a weak core and no endurance, balance and flexibility. I've never seen a new driver cure a bad or weak golf swing - put your money into the machine that drives your swing, your body!

It's no wonder that more golf professionals are putting emphasis on specialized golf exercise programs as well as improving technique. Stretching gives you flexibility for a better swing. Strength training enhances muscle control and balance for a more consistent game. Aerobics gives you the endurance so that you have as much energy for your last shot as you did on your first. In general, golf fitness exercises along with technique practice will make you a better player all around.