Golf Balance Exercises

Improving balance for golf can be achieved with exercises specific to your golf swing. One of the biggest issues with most amateurs is balance, stability and body control in their golf swing.

How Important Is Balance Training In Golf?

This is something most golfers completely ignore. And yet, swining out of balance is one of the main causes of mishits and lack of distance. Balance exercises for golfers like the one in the video below only take a couple of minutes to do, but can have a profound impact on your golf game.

Swinging Too Hard

So often I see a golfer swinging outside their physical capabilities and losing their balance, resulting in a severe mishit that will end up being a double or triple bogey, or falling in the water like the golfer in the picture.

There is a physical requirement to maintaining your golf balance throughout your swing. The golf swing position commonly referred to as golf posture is a very unnatural position for the body to be in at address, let alone throughout the swing.

Golf Muscles Used For Swing Balance

Learning what golf swing muscles are used for swing balance is critical. Having a forward tilt over the balls of your feet require a high level of both strength and flexibility in your hamstrings, which can be accomplished with a golf stretching and golf exercise program. Just get in your golf posture and reach back behind your upper leg to see how tight your hamstrings are.

If your hamstrings are tight and/or weak, you will have no chance at maintaining your golf posture and ultimately balance throughout your golf swing.

Take a look at the exercise in this video to improve your balance and back pain in golf

How about your quadriceps?

They play a critical role in keeping your golf swing stable. Rotating your upper body around a somewhat fixed lower body takes a tremendous amount of leg (quad) strength. Also your quads help maintain your knee flex that you had at address. If your quads are weak, your legs will straighten, causing you to come out of our swing.

Golf Strength And Flexibility

As you can see, your golf balance requires muscular strength and flexibility. Without it, you'll be falling all over your swing forever! Exercises to help golf balance will improve your golf swing consistency and power.

One great golf balance exercise (drill) is swinging and actually hitting balls on one leg. Give it a try! You?ll soon find out how difficult it is. But stick with it, and you'll become a pro at it. If you can hit straight balls on one leg, using both legs will be a cinch.

Challenging Your Balance

In all of my advanced golf performance training programs, I have the golfer do a majority of their strength exercises on one leg. It is brutal! It takes so much focus and concentration, you?ll be sweating before you even grab the weight.

I have literally dozens of golf balance exercises in my golf training system that will dramatically improve your balance, stability and overall control. It's amazing how many emails I get from golfers who thought these golf balance exercises were easy until they did a full set of just one exercise.

They thought differently after that!

This could be your missing link to a great game! Focus on those golf balance exercises!

I hope you now see how important it is to strengthen and stretch your golf specific muscles to improve your golf swing balance. There are specific golf exercises, programs, tips in our best-selling golf fitness system.

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