The action of your wrists and hands has the greatest effect on how your golf ball flies and where it goes. The hands are the golfer’s ultimate tool for feel and action of the club. The club head face or the wrists dictate the direction the ball will fly. In the golf swing the wrist must produce as much range of motion at a very high rate of speed as any athletic movement. Tell that to the mockers of golf athleticism.

This is also why it is crucial you participate in a golf fitness program that is focused on building a total player with a routine that addresses every muscle and muscle group in the golf swing.

Golf Is A Left Handed Game

Left wrist and forearm strength are critical to golf success. Many players let the left wrist break down through impact, being dominated by the right arm. This causes many problems in the golf swing including topping, loss of distance, and pulling shots to the left.

A loose grip is recommended by many but first, you must have the strength to hold the club loosely and still maintain control.

Without this hand and forearm strength more energy is spent gripping the club, or even worse, re-gripping the club when starting the downswing.

Additionally, the tighter you grip the club, the more tension you develop in your forearms and wrists. Tense muscles will restrict not only your wrist’s range of motion, but also the range of motion in your full swing. Does any of this ring familiar to you? Have you experienced this with your golf swing?

Developing good grip strength will also give you a competitive advantage when hitting though the sand or deep, heavy rough. Let the other guys in your group struggle with the bad lies while you blast the ball out cleanly.

Improving Your Short Game

Improving your short game can mean the difference between a good round and great round of golf. In fact 70% of the game is played inside the 150 yard marker.

Here are the secret benefits you gain with our golf fitness program.

First, by gaining power and increased distance in your shots you can begin to use your higher lofted clubs from greater distance for better accuracy. To manipulate the club head with accuracy, you need to strengthen the muscles that grip, flex, extend and rotate your hand and wrist.

Furthermore, the short game requires a great deal more finesse. Finesse in terms of finite control of those partial swings, which are the most difficult in golf. Finesse in terms of hitting out of the sand, or off the slope of the fringe. Finesse in keeping your wrists from breaking down while executing these delicate and difficult golf shots.

Increasing your motor control and your arm, wrist, and forearm’s ability to control the club and execute these finesse movements is what we seek with our Be Golf Fit program.

Would you like to have the ability and control to hit chips and pitches from the rough, control the bouncing of the club in heavy sand, and accelerate through the shot much easier?

With stronger forearms and wrists you will gain this all important control. This is especially important with female golfers who tend not to have enough strength in their forearms and wrists to truly control the club.

Any good golf fitness program should also include injury prevention. We want to keep you playing and having a good time round after round after round.

Injury Prevention

Guess what? Your second hidden benefit is injury prevention.

The left wrist/hand is one of the leading causes of injuries among golfers. Golfers who lack grip and forearm strength will be prone to injuries to their hand, wrist and elbow. When the forearm is strained from overuse you can develop Golfer’s Elbow. Golfers Elbow is less common than Tennis Elbow and characteristically occurs with wrist flexor activity and pronation in the right elbow of a right-handed golf swing by throwing the club head down at the ball with the right arm rather than pulling the club through with the left arm and trunk.

This extremely painful condition can also be caused by having your arms fixed in an awkward position, constant repetition or excessive force.

The stress is greatest during the downswing portion of the swing. Injuries usually result from overuse or from trauma suffered by hitting a fat shot. I actually had a friend break his wrist while I was playing with him doing exactly that. His swing came in to steep, he drove his iron straight into the ground, and snap, crackle, pop went the bones in his wrist. An easy way to help avoid these types of injuries is to begin strengthening the grip and forearm muscles.

I think one of the worst things a golfer can be told is sorry, put away the sticks, you’re done for the year. Come back in about 6 months and we’ll check those pins I had to put in your wrist.

Ugh!

Besides the wrist risk, there are also elbow injuries. Elbow injuries can also take longer to heal than other overuse injuries – from six to 12 weeks or more – because there are fewer muscles in that particular area to bring the blood’s healing cells to repair damaged tissues. Simple strengthening techniques can prevent injuries like this from occurring.

One of the best golf fitness strengthening exercises you can do is the Wrist Curl followed by my Wrist Flexor Stretch for forearm flexibility. Using these two exercises in tandem will give you the strength and flexibility required in your hands and arms to not only hit better golf shots but also to avoid a serious injury.

Now You can control your club, play the difficult and delicate shots around the green, put the ball closer to the hole with a higher lofted club and wrestle the club through the thickest rough without fear of injury with golf fitness from Be Golf Fit.

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