Golf Exercise Equipment Can Make A Huge Improvement In Your Golf Game
Golf exercise equipment, if chosen correctly can have an immediate and dramatic impact on your golf game.
You d be surprised to find out it is not expensive; and is not necessarily in a gym or health club either.
Yes there are golf machines for stretching and strength building that are well over one thousand dollars, but are definitely not needed.
When you think of the golf swing, it s a dynamic movement completed in space with your whole body. So any kind of training or golf exercise equipment should be able to accommodate this.
For starters, a pair of hand weights (dumbbells) are inexpensive, portable and can be used for dozens of golf-specific
...output, increased neuromuscular efficiency, and decreased incidence of overuse injuries. A weak core can make you susceptible to poor posture and injury. 3. Plyometrics. Plyometrics are any exercise where the muscle is contracted eccentricly then immediately, concentricly. Put simply, the ...
Next on the list of golf exercise 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.
...the principle on which they operate is very simple. In order to strengthen any muscle, you must use that muscle against a resistance. Therefore, if you swing with a weighted club, the weight provides the resistance and the swing uses ...
Another piece of golf exercise 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.
And the last piece of golf exercise equipment is the weighted medicine ball. You might remember them from several decades ago as the big leather balls that the old fitness
...patterns. Fit Balls are one of the most effective exercise tools to improve and develop spinal, pelvic and shoulder girdle stability. Total core stability is achieved along with improved posture and an increased awareness of your own body the way ...
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 exercise equipment.
About The Author: Mike Pedersen is an Internationally recognized golf fitness trainer and author. He is Golf Magazines golf performance expert, and founder of several
...s set for women, and youngsters should use junior sets. Starting out with clubs that don t fit will only make learning the game harder. If no one will lend you a set (some of us get protective about our ...