Basic golf exercises. You hear that phrase quite often on television from commentators referring to the area many touring professionals focus on to improve their power and prevent lower back injuries.
Vijay Singh, for example, uses heavy medicine balls to exercise golf’s core muscles throughout tournament week. In fact, his caddy is his rainier. How convenient! The best of both worlds!
But hearing the phrase basic golf drills and knowing what your core is are two completely different things. As a fitness professional, it’s easy for me to use that phrase often to impress prospective clients with my golf fitness training products.
But that is not the case. Understanding what your core is and how it plays a critical role in producing maximum power; injury prevention and even stability is very important. Once you know… you’ll soon realize that this may be the missing link in a great game.
This area (core) starts at about the belly button and runs up to the bottom of the breastbone. It is the engine of your body and the awareness of your core affects golf the most. Think of it as the link in the chain that should be the strongest, not the weakest.
Two simple basic golf training exercises that will quickly strengthen your core are crunches and back extensions. These would be your initial exercises to give you the strength to move on to rotational exercises that put a little more stress on the spine if the muscles are not sufficiently conditioned.
Once you’ve done the above exercises, you can move on to a twist crunch and a twist back extension. This will affect your rotation force immediately… which will quickly equate to increased power and distance.
You can then progress to a standing position by doing several different variations of rotational movements with a single dumbbell, standing up, and also in your golf stance.
Now that you have a basic understanding of basic golf drills…hopefully you see how important it is in your overall golf improvement plan.
So the next time you hear the phrase on TV… you’ll know what basic golf drills are.
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