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Core Golf Fitness Is Key For Increasing Driving Distance - DVD Will Motivate You

Simple core exercises like this will improve your distance. Check out our dvd collection!

The term core is a big buzzword in training right now! Almost to the point of overkill, but in golf it is a critical component to longer drives. In fact a core golf fitness program or dvd will quickly improve your driving distance.

Think of your core as the power center of your golf swing. Everything comes from your core area! The main movement in golf is rotation. That rotation is centered around the middle of your body or more commonly referred to as your core.

With that in mind, it makes sense to focus on that area of your body to get the biggest bang for your buck right? But what should you do that will improve your power? This is the main reason I put together my golf fitness dvd package, as well as my fitness for golf manual. To arm golfers with all the information they need to improve their body specific to golf.

Strengthen Your Core Golf Muscles

It is critical you implement strength exercises for your core. These can be simple exercises with inexpensive exercise tubing, portable dumbbells and medicine balls. All very inexpensive equipment you can get at many of the stores in your area. Even Targets stores carry this equipment. This equipment combined with a core golf fitness program will produce amazing results!

Make sure to do golf specific exercises to gain the biggest benefit from your time and money investment. The more you can simulate your golf swing with resistance exercises, the quicker you'll see results. Focus on rotational exercises with resistance.

Stretch Your Core Muscles Specific To Your Swing

Equally as important to strengthening your core is also stretching it. I like the term "strengthen and lengthen" when referring to any golf specific fitness program. Keep that in mind for every single exercise you do in your golf fitness program. Just like the strength exercises, stretching your core with twisting type stretches will give you better results.

Think of sport-specific training for a minute. All sports train differently. The muscles are used in different ways, therefore the training should be different. Same goes for golf. Golfers should focus on the movements and positions of the golf swing, and incorporate stretches and exercises to target those muscles in that way. A golf fitness dvd from a credible source can make this much easier, and motivation too!

Fitness For Golf Can't Be Ignored

Golfers are now realizing that fitness for golf cannot be ignored if you want to play better golf. The beauty is...you don't need to belong to a gym to do it. You can do your in home golf fitness program with minimal equipment and in less than 30 minutes! This is doable for anyone, if the priority of better golf is high enough.

Core Golf Fitness Resource

Golf Fitness DVD. Step-by-step, simple golf exercises, stretches and programs. Get the edge over all the golfers you play with!

Mike Pedersen
Golf Performance Coach

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