Golf Fitness Exercises Have Advanced Over The Years

Golf Fitness Exercises are a vital part of a bigger holistic approach to golf.

If we go back a few decades ago, Palmer and Nicklaus utilized their natural talent and skill to bring them to the top of world golf. Every other golfer was doing the same.

Then came Gary Player, a little guy dressed in black impressing the world with all his push ups and sit ups and seemed to spend less time on the practice range.

A Winner of 9 major golf he soon got everybody’s attention and respect. Yes, Gary saw the benefits of fitness for his golf long before anybody else did.

Today, at over 70 years old he still does 1000 sit ups 3 times per week. Extraordinary discipline!

The golfing world went into a period of dormancy for some time regarding fitness and then…

Tiger Woods got everybody’s attention when he burst onto the world stage in 1996. He approached his golf from a holistic point of view, technique, mental strength, and physical fitness through planned golf fitness exercises.

Not only does he have exceptional talent but his early major performances proved that his holistic approach was justified. Since then a flood of tour players started exercising and some employ private fitness trainers.

David Duval did intensive fitness training before reaching the top spot in the world rankings in 1999.

Greg Norman has had a personal trainer oversee his fitness for the past 6 years. Many more Tour players have a routine of golf fitness exercises.

A golfers swing is reliant on his physical and mental condition. If these areas are not strong the swing suffers.

You can experience this when you get tired, your technique is bound to buckle forcing you to compensate. A Consistent posture and stabilization of the club is lost throughout the swing.

So lessons are not the answer to some swing problems, rather check your fitness level.

A focused area for golf fitness is pilates exercises. They are especially good if you have back problems and pain.

It is not the quantity of exercise you do but the quality, that counts. The body moves much easier when you are fit and makes learning golf technique easier and faster.

We all require our own individual approach to fitness, simply because our bodies are all different shapes and sizes. If you are thin it does not mean to say that you can touch your toes and because you are fat does not mean that you are unfit.

Here is what you need to do

Find your strengths and weaknesses and then build a fitness program on what your needs are. This can be done together with a fitness trainer.

Why be fit for golf if it is merely a walk in the park? The answer is obvious by now, especially when you consider the demand the golf swing places on your body.

In golf we repeat the same body positions and movements all the time. The movement taking the most strain is the body turn around the spine.

Golf fitness exercises to strengthen your posture should be your starting choice.

Being able to repeat the same swing over and over without getting tired, sore or losing concentration is the ultimate in golf fitness.

The core muscles are responsible for connecting your upper body to your lower body, and controlling the body turn and balance.

These stabilizer muscles need to be strong to support your spine on the back swing, and provide balance on the down swing.

Strong abdominal muscles prevent most injuries. Read more on Golf Strength Training here.

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