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Is Your Golf Fitness Workout Actually Hurting Your Golf Game?

by mike on May 26, 2010


Is Your Golf Fitness Workout
Actually Hurting Your Golf Game?

 

What?

Every golf magazine and every blathering golf guru talks about golf fitness and how it can help improve your golf game.

So it only stands to reason that getting any type of exercise should help your game – right?

The answer is a resounding NO that sounds as ugly as the last shank you hit.

How you workout and what muscles you workout can make a big difference in your swing and in your score.

Everyday new discoveries are being made associating improved health benefits and working out.

So, if you are going to workout, why not work out in a scientific manner to improve your golf game, not damage it.  Listen, if you haven’t found the right motivation to get you off your couch and into a regular golf fitness exercise routine, there is probably no better motivator than this.

Did you know a proven golf fitness program can add up to 40 yards to your drives, reduce your nagging back pain and keep your scorecard the lowest among your golfing buddies? You would like to take their money wouldn’t you, or win the next scrambler or club tournament?

While you may love playing golf, unfortunately, playing golf is not the best means for getting your body in better shape. Here’s why.

Physical Demands of Golf

Golf is a physically demanding sport, in spite of what the naysayers say. Remember, it is your body swinging those new clubs and it is your body that dictates your golfing ability and the outcome of your game.  Muscular imbalances, lack of strength, or limited flexibility will create restrictions in your golf swing and therefore not only affect performance but could cause soreness at the least or severe injury at the worst.

For players at every level, the golf swing is one of the most difficult skills to execute consistently over the ever-changing conditions of play. A typical round of golf includes lots of demands. In a single round of golf you can walk as much as 8,000 yards. If you are using a cart you will still walk 4,000 yards.  Depending on the day you can have sun, heat and humidity melting you faster than an ice cream cone in the Sahara desert. Conversely it may be cold, rainy or be a day when the wind is blowing hard enough to pick up a cow. And if it can pick up a cow I don’t even want to think how that might affect the flight of your golf ball – know how to hit it low?

You will be swinging several different golf clubs with varying weights and lengths. You will be hitting from hillsides with your toes lower than your heels or with your heels lower than your toes. Then you may be faced with a shot from a slope with one leg higher than the other. You will be hitting the ball from lousy lies; long, wet, club wrenching grass, thin lies in short grass or even a bare fairway. And of course, there is everybody’s favorite, the modern day sand trap. Bigger than Waikiki beach, I’ve seen players that could toss down two drinks with umbrellas in them in less time than it took them to extricate themselves from some of these modern day monsters.

This doesn’t even account for the “behind the tree lie”, the “oops, I hit it in the other fairway and have to go over the trees lie” and of course everyone’s favorite, the “water hazard lie”.

With all of these obstacles, it’s easy to see how a a golf fitness program could help improve your game by allowing you to swing your club consistently from beginning to end while maintaining your balance, form and rhythm.

Many golf fitness workouts focus on just one particular physical requirement of the golf game but not others.

For example, some golf fitness programs focus on strength while ignoring flexibility. Others focus on flexibility while ignoring strength. Others include a few  special “golf” exercises. Some focus on building cardio and endurance but nothing more.

I’m sure you have seen many golf fitness programs focused on nothing but hitting a longer drive. Let me ask you, how many times do you hit your driver in a round? Is it fewer than you putt and fewer than your approach shots? Of course it is!

In other words, do you want to be a complete golfer or just the star on your local driving range?

This is why comprehensive golf fitness is so important. Let me share a typical problem with most golf fitness programs.

What if your workout focuses on strength but not flexibility? Most of us begin to loose flexibility at age 25. Without a proper stretching regimen, the increase in muscle strength will actually decrease flexibility resulting in an even shorter golf swing. As your muscles get stronger they get shorter, did you know that? Shorter muscles actually shorten your swing and produce a mathematical result you will not be happy with.

Don’t believe me? Here’s the math:

[( Muscle + No Stretch) X Shorter Swing + (Slower Club Head Speed)] = Lot’s Of Rounds At The 19th Hole – ON YOU!

Is this what you want?

I didn’t think so.

This is just one of many reasons you want a comprehensive golf fitness program. It is imperative you build flexibility while you build strength so your muscle will retain it’s optimal elongated length producing a long golf swing that not only adds distance, but prevents injury.

Do yourself a favor and start playing winning golf with our scientifically designed golf fitness program that is unlike any other on the market.

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