The Best Golf Exercises Are Very Simple

The best golf exercises are not complicated; you don抰 need to be a member of a gym; and you don抰 need thousands of dollars in equipment.  Yes卼here are new golf fitness machines coming out in the market that look respectable, but they want an arm and a leg for them.

When you think of the best golf exercises, you抳e got to think like an athlete for a minute.  Golf is an athletic sport, and thanks to guys like Tiger Woods, golfers are realizing they need to train like an athlete to see improvement. 

Most athletes don抰 ever use machines.  Machines guide you through certain ranges of motion that don抰 benefit the golf swing.  The golf swing is a very dynamic movement, that is not like other movements.   

The baseball swing is very similar from a mechanical standpoint卋ut two distinct differences.  In baseball you 憆eact?to a moving object (in golf the ball is not moving); and in baseball the ball is approximately waist high and in golf it抯 on the ground. 

So in order to incorporate the best golf exercises, you抳e got to take a look at your body position and the muscles involved to maintain that position.   

What is it? 

We know at address you have a tilt in your spine, a bend at the hips and knees.  And even a little ankle flex.  That抯 a somewhat athletic position, similar to a squat, but not quite. 

Now卬ot only are you in the position, but now you have to swing a long lever (club) at over 80 plus mph and stay in this position (posture).   

Impossible if you have weak and stiff golf specific muscles! 

Here抯 is a quick test.  When you are in your golf posture, just start touching the muscles in your body that are flexed.  It will be the quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves and even the lower back muscles. 

So we know that the best golf exercises will hit those muscle groups (and preferably in a standing position).   

Now add the very powerful rotation of your upper body (backswing) and you抳e got the core involved.  So you抣l need to do some golf exercises that incorporate core rotation and flexibility. 

As you can see, the best golf exercises are NOT on machines and do not need to be done in a gym. 

All you need is a pair of dumbbells, some inexpensive exercise tubing and maybe a weighted medicine ball and you can dramatically improve your golf swing right in your home in less than 30 minutes a day! 

Hopefully you are motivated to take this approach to your golf improvement and you have a better understanding of what the best golf exercises are.