MARCH MADNESS! Pre-Season Training for an awesome round of golf.
For many, the 2009 golf season is just around the corner. Hopefully
you have
been working to increase your strength and flexibility over the past
several
months and are now ready to get prepared for the season.
If you haven’t been as diligent as you would have liked performing your
off-season golf fitness routine, don’t despair; there is still time to
prepare your body for the upcoming season.
To prepare your body for the stresses that it will undergo while you
play
and practice more often, you should start to incorporate rotational
exercises into you golf fitness routine. Focusing your attention on your
midsection will help you increase the torque or twisting force your core
muscles can produce. Over the next few weeks we will be presenting
examples
of rotational exercises to help prepare you for the upcoming season in
our
Tip of the Week.
Examples of Torso Rotational Exercises:
--Russian Twists
--Core Power Punches
--Medicine Ball Lunge with Rotations
--Medicine Ball Cross Body Rotations
--Seated Russian Twist
Core Power Punches
--Stand in your golf posture
holding small
hand weights.
--Engage your abdominal muscles
to protect
your low back.
--Alternate punching your arms out in
front of
you maintaining your elbows chest high.
--Alternate punching your arms for 10
to 12
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