Improve Your Golf Swing With Simple Strength And Conditioning Exercises

Don't run when you hear this! Improving your golf swing can happen very quickly with a strength and conditioning program for golf. Golfers who workout are usually better golfers. Now hear that again.

Golfers who exercise usually play better golf. It's not the other way around. Which would be people who workout play great golf. NOT! You've obviously got to be a golfer first, then the conditioning program pays off.

Golf Specific Strength Exercises

Improving your strength specific to golf entails exercises that closely mimic your golf swing. There are others as well, but many simple exercises can be done for different phases of your golf swing.

These simple golf exercises can be done with exercise tubing, weighted medicine balls or even dumbbells. You may have even seen similar exercises in magazines, on the television or at your local fitness club. These exercises are not to be done with heavy weights or even fancy club equipment. In fact, the machines in the gyms are the farthest thing you should do if you want to play better golf.

Machines typically isolate one muscle group in a controlled manner dictated by the machine. This is NOT golf-specific and may in fact hurt your swing not help it! On the other hand, you can do the exact same movements of the golf swing with tubing, medicine balls and dumbbells.

Year Around Conditioning Program

Golf conditioning should be a year round discipline! The pro's do it on the Sunday of a tournament, so amateurs can most definitely do it throughout both the off-season and during the season. During the season, you would do a maintenance-type conditioning routine. Something less frequent per week, and maybe a tad less intensity to save it for your golf .

Golf strength and conditioning programs should be an integral part of any golf improvement program. Skipping this will not help you reach your true potential. Fix your body and watch your swing transform!

Golf Strength And Conditioning Resource

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

Mike Pedersen
Golf Performance Coach