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I‘m absolutely amazed at looking at the results of my poll on the right lower side of this site (blog)! Strength is the lowest vote by far! How can this be? Don’t golfers realize they need strong golf-specific muscles to hit longer drives and prevent injury?
Is it because golfers think strength means heavy weights in a sweaty gym? Spending two hours a day doing it? Doing it 5-7 days a week? Don’t believe any of this. Your golf fitness routine will be much different than this. In fact, you can spend as little as 15 minutes in your home and see dramatic improvement in your golf swing power and distance.
Hasn’t Tiger shown you by now how much better you could be if you got stronger? I mean…no one can touch him! He is his own worse enemy. If he has an off day…maybe someone else could win, but if you is remotely on…look out!
He has prepared his body “off the course” to perform on the course. Just like any other athlete would in his/her sport. It’s time you take your golf to another level and work on your body. Specific strength AND flexibility. This combination is deadly! Improving your strength and at the same time getting more flexible…watch out! You’ll be kicking your foursomes butt all over the course.
Improving your strength is EASY!
You can do it with very little equipment. And you can do it right in your home too! If you desire more yards off the tee, you’ll not ignore strength for golf. Embrace it and you’ll be a machine out there! Find a credible resource for your golf strength training.
The key areas to focus on for strength is core rotational strength, hamstring strength for better posture and less stress on the lower back, upper back for erect posture which makes it easier to make a full backswing, and shoulders to set the club at the top consistently AND to generate much higher clubhead coming into the ball.
Senior Golfers MUST Improve Strength
When you ask a senior golfer what he’s lost the most he’ll say flexibility. This is most likely true, but don’t you think he/she has lost a tremendous amount of strength as well. If you do not use your muscles they will atrophy. This means they get smaller, softer AND weaker!
Weak muscles produce weak golf shots! Doesn’t that make sense to you? If you agree, then maybe you should change your answer to my poll in the right side. Or…better yet, do some simple strength AND stretching exercises to get the best of both worlds.
Picture a FULL backswing with not tension, and powerful muscles bringing the club down at a higher rate of speed, but under better control for more consistency! That’s the result of stronger muscles!
As always, give me your “two cents worth” by commenting on this post. I truly love to hear from you and build this community in here! I would love to see you also spread the word about this blog so more golfers can learn and get better!
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What do you think?
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:57 am
Hey Mike,
My take, after using hundreds of surveys in other niches besides golf is the reason they answer like that is because they will not give an answer that would lead to them doing some work, hence not many Strength answers.
They know deep inside that they need to workout, but don’t have time, money, desire, etc.
They are also mostly a bit over weight, so they know they need to be more flexible and can justify their answer by swaying, bending, twisting and turning for 30 seconds before they tee off and call that stretching.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:59 am
Interesting! Thanks Mike! I definitely value your opinion :)!
September 24th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Mike,
Thank you for bringing the importance of strength in the game of golf to attention. Many of my golf clients are the weakest in their core which leaves the body wide open for injury and its one of the factors I stress the most with my clients. Core fitness is so important to improve one’s golf swing and yet it can be greatly ignored by the average golfer. To be able to drive the ball to great distances does require core rotational strength as well as several other fitness components and I applaud you Mike for bringing this to attention. Thank you.
-Bob
September 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I hope more and more golfers take notice Bob!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:16 am
i totally agree with you on the strength issue and i’m now converted; its taken me a year to get back to the levels i had assumed i had; aged 50; but in fact had lost. hard work getting there, but worth it. now i have physical confidence again, i need to work on my mental side. it never ends.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Hey Jonners! Glad to hear another convert :)!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Hi Mike
I agree strength is needed if one wants to play golf well. I’ve bought your Ebook ‘Fit To A Tee’ and have been doing the exercises in the book. Guess what? - I’ve been hitting the ball straight and long most of the time - very happy. Friends and complete strangers I played with were amazed with the way I hit the ball. They questioned whether I’m really 63 years old. A very satisfied old golfer.
Thanks to you.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I think your wrong on why you got the answers you did on strength, Most people i play with just don’t hit the ball far enough to threaten par a lot of the time, but they still tell me they hit pw 130, So i think it could be male pride they don’t like to think they are not strong enough so flexibility is a good out for them on your poll,.,.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
You could be right! That is why it seems the older guys are more willing to start both a strength and flexibility program. They are much wiser than the young bucks
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October 11th, 2007 at 10:20 am
I’m reasonably new to golf. I pplayed years ago, and gave it up because no-one I knew played. Having taken it up recently I decided to use it more for exercise than anything else, but never really knew the importance of stretching and strength training. But I want to improve, and know now that if I’m going to get anywhere, i’m going to have to put a bit more effort in. Having just found your various website, purely by chance, I have decided to put extra effort in, and am going to use your various techniques, but to do with the golf swing and weight loss etc. Thank you for your various insights, and to have everything needed in a couple of ebooks and right here, is a great help. I hope to keep you informed of my game reaching new heights in the future.