Your Program Should Have Both Stretching And Strengthening Exercises
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Any golf fitness program should address both the flexibility needs of the golfer as well as the strength (or weaknesses) issues specific to your golf swing. Because the golf swing requires both, it is quite obvious you should have both in your program. Many times you see someone advocating stretching, which is great, but stretching without strength is not long-term flexibility improvement as the muscles do get lengthened but the strength doesn’t help them keep that new muscle strength.
Stretching
If you want improvement in your golf swing range of motion, your stretches should be as specific to your golf swing as possible. Doing many stretches in your golf posture will reap quick rewards. In fact, break your golf swing down into phases and do a stretch for every phase. Picture the Jim McLean 8 Step Swing and do a stretch for each position.
Strengthening
To add power and distance to your swing, you need stronger golf muscles. That means doing movements specific to your swing with resistance. This resistance can be done by using exercise bands, medicine balls and even exercise (swiss) balls. Using dumbbells is another effective option and one that is inexpensive as well.
Just like the stretching, break your swing down into phases and do resistance movements for that phase of the swing. It can be quite fun doing these different and unique exercises, and the results are quite impressive!
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