Golf Fitness Training Equipment
For Your In-Home Program
What is fitness training equipment specific to golf? Is there such a thing?
I'll bet you thought you go to a gym and bang on the machines for a couple of
hours right?
First off...it is not in a gym, and secondly it's not expensive or painful.
There are fancy and very expensive fitness for golf machines, but they are total
"overkill" in my opinion. You don't need to spend $2500 to improve your golf
swing!
The golf swing is a "free flowing" dynamic movement completed in space with
your whole body. So any kind of training or golf
fitness equipment should be able to accommodate this.
I've designed all my programs, dvds and books to utilize the below equipment
for one reason. Convenience. Which will save you time to do what you really
want to do. Play golf!
Dumbbells (handweights)
For starters, a pair of hand weights (dumbbells) are inexpensive, portable
and can be used for dozens of golf-specific exercises. They don’t have to be
heavy or cumbersome. You’d be surprised what a 5 to 8 pound pair of dumbbells
can accomplish with the right golf exercises.
Golf Exercise Tubing
Next on the list of golf
fitness equipment is tubing. You may have seen it in articles, on the television
or in a catalog. Exercise tubing is extremely portable, very inexpensive and
also can be used to mimic many phases of the golf swing, but with resistance.
I personally use exercise tubing in all of my programs, with all of my personal
clients and in my own golf workouts. It can give you one heck of a workout if
you have the right resistance. These bands come in varying tensions from light
to extra heavy.
Golf Exercise (Stability) Ball
Another piece of golf fitness equipment is a stability ball. It’s the big ‘beach
ball’ looking thing that is used in offices to sit on, in many exercise classes,
at most health clubs and all of the physical therapy clinics.
Why? Because again it’s portable, inexpensive and very versatile. Doing golf
exercises on the ball incorporate core stabilization, balance and stability.
All important factors in a mechanically sound golf swing.
Golf Medicine (weighted) Ball
And the last piece of golf fitness equipment is a weighted medicine ball is
the . You might remember them from several decades ago as the big leather balls
that the old fitness fanatics used to improve strength and power.
Well now they’re back! They are used in every sport-specific strength program
in existence. You can do so many sport-like movements with them and they weigh
as much as 20 pounds, so you can imagine the benefit from a power standpoint.
I have a couple of my ‘bread-and-butter’ exercises I use in all my programs
that incorporate the weighted medicine ball and they are very effective.
So there you have it! Three or four pieces of inexpensive and portable golf
fitness equipment.
Mike Pedersen
Golf Performance Expert
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