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The Importance of Pelvic Control in the Golf Swing – Pelvic Tilt Test
The Importance of Pelvic Control in the Golf Swing - Pelvic Tilt Test You don't hear much about pelvic control in the golf swing. At least not much in the golf magazines or within instructional golf swing videos. Sure, almost all golf swing articles include a cursory...
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Gain More Rotation in Your Swing by Getting Rid of UCS
Gain More Rotation in Your Swing by Getting Rid of UCS What amateur golfer doesn't want to gain more rotation in their golf swing? Everyone wants more. Before you can gain rotation, you need to remove barriers that impede your body to turn around your spine. One of...
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Are Your Swing Issues Caused by Shoulder Limitations? Use the 90-90 Test to Investigate
Full range of motion of your shoulder is important in the golf swing. The 90-90 test will evaluate your shoulder mobility & stability.
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Are Your Shoulders and Back Causing Swing Issues? The Lat Length Test for Golfers
Are Your Shoulders and Back Causing Swing Issues? The Lat Length Test for Golfers It's pretty obvious that shoulder movement and back flexibility are important aspects of the golf swing. Many golfers have trouble with simple shoulder flexion (lifting the arms out in...
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4 Exercises To Improve Hip Mobility & Rotation For Longer Drives
4 Exercises To Improve Hip Mobility & Rotation For Longer Drives Discouraged with my hip mobility, and specifically my internal hip rotation, I added the following exercises to my morning workouts. Hip mobility is obviously important to the golf swing. Not only...
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Is the Lack of Internal Hip Rotation Costing You Yards Off the Tee?
Is the Lack of Internal Hip Rotation Costing You Yards Off the Tee? Is the lack of hip mobility costing you distance off the tee and adding movement compensations that are leading to swing problems? Checking your hip mobility is quick, easy, and correcting any...
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Try this to Stop Slicing Your Drives and Hit the Ball Straighter
Try This to Stop Slicing Your Drives and Hit the Ball Straighter The slice is the most common ball flight for amateur golfers. When you slice the golf ball, you lose distance, it most likely costs you penalty strokes, and playing from the right-side of the golf...
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Build Lower Body Stability and Rotary Mobility with the Supine Chop
Build Lower Body Stability and Rotary Mobility with the Supine Chop The supine chop is most often recommended to build lower body stability, but I like to use the exercise because it engages the upper body muscles in a diagonal motion without the lower body helping...
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How You Can Add Power to Your Golf Swing – DJ vs. Rahm
How You Can Add Power to Your Golf Swing - DJ vs. Rahm You're right, that isn't Dustin Johnson or Jon Rahm in the image. Sorry, I didn't have six bills to drop to buy a copyrighted image. But watching those two in the finals of the WGC Match Play gave me the idea to...
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Is Your Lower Body Costing You Distance? The Lower Quarter Rotation Test
Is Your Lower Body Costing You Distance? The Lower Quarter Rotation Test When rotation is mentioned in the golf swing, most people think about shoulder rotation. But lower body rotation is also contributing to the overall amount of rotation. Without lower body...
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Boiling Down Golf Fitness Training – What You Need to Accomplish
Boiling Down Golf Fitness Training - What You Need to Accomplish Whether you're currently in a golf fitness training program or are looking to start one, the goal is probably one of two things. Hit the ball farther. Or, make better swings to lower your score. In the...
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What I Learned About Golf Fitness at the Hardware Store
What I Learned About Golf Fitness at the Hardware Store What does a golfer do in the spring when it's raining and there is still snow on the ground? Work on those Hunny-do lists, of course. Why not get all of those home improvement projects out of the way before the...
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Make Golf Fitness Progressions Challenging Not Hard For Better Results
Exercise progression is the path to success and it's better to make golf fitness progressions challenging rather than difficult. Don't get me wrong, we all want to progress through a fitness program as fast as we can so we can play better golf. And it seems so stupid...
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Do You Need More Rotation? Use the Seated Trunk Rotation Test to Find Out
Do You Need More Rotation? Use the Seated Trunk Rotation Test to Find Out. Do you need more rotation in your golf swing? Most golfers would answer that question with a resounding "Yes." It's almost gospel that more rotation and a longer backswing will generate more...
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2 Exercises You Can Use For Conditioning or Warm-up – At the Golf Course or Gym
2 Exercises You Can Use For Conditioning or Warm-up - At the Golf Course or Gym I'm a fan of Alton Brown, you know the guy that created the awesome cooking show Good Eats and is the host of my family's favorite new show Cutthroat Kitchen. Why am I bring up cooking...
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9 Excuses Why You Don’t Exercise and How to Overcome Them to Play Better Golf
9 Excuses Why You Don't Exercise and How to Overcome Them to Play Better Golf Before we get into the top reasons why golfers don’t exercise, let’s take a moment and review how bad of a problem the lack of exercise is in America. The Center’s for Disease Control...
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Bridge with Leg Extension Test – Are Your Glutes Contributing to Your Swing?
Bridge with Leg Extension Test - Are Your Glutes Contributing to Your Swing? Glutes are the primary power generating muscle in the golf swing. However, many golfers under-utilize their rear end allowing the hamstrings and lower back muscles to take over a lion share...
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What Do You Need To Do To Increase Your Driver Swing Speed?
We all want to increase our driver swing speed. Comparing the swings of the longest hitters might give us a clue as to what will help our golf swings the most. Common swing traits of the long hitters can be assumed to be important if we apply these characteristics to our swings in all likelihood we will increase our swing speed. The common traits amongst the long hitters are good ankle mobility, strong glutes, the ability to separate movement between the upper and lower body, and being able to freely posteriorly and anteriorly tilt the pelvis.
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Is Muscle Activation a Thing? Why Workout Cues are Important
Is Muscle Activation a Thing? Why Workout Cues are Important Muscle activation and deactivation is the most important concept to understand in golf fitness and to learn during a golf conditioning program. Big statement, I know. It's hard to argue against, though. The...
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Cervical Rotation Test – Does Your Neck Limit the Backswing?
Cervical Rotation Test - Does Your Neck Limit the Backswing? That's right your neck could be limiting the length of your backswing. At least the amount of effective rotation. If you can't touch your collarbone with your chin then most likely you have a short...
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3 Additional Swing Characteristics Added to TPI’s Evaluation
3 Additional Swing Characteristics Added to TPI's Evaluation Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) has changed up their swing characteristic evaluations. Previously, TPI focused on the 12 most common swing characteristics. I have written extensively about these 12...
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Tips for Starting a Golf Fitness Workout Program
Here are some tips for starting a golf fitness workout program. In reality, the tips work for anyone that is looking to get back in the gym. Every day people decide that today is the day to get back into shape. Whether they are trying to improve sport specific...
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Wrist Extension or Cupping – Mobility Test for Golfers
Wrist extension or cupping is the sixth mobility screen I use to evaluate the mobility and stability of golfers. The lack of wrist mobility during the backswing and downswing can lead to swing compensations that will cause inconsistent ball striking and could lead to...
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15 Great Christmas Gifts That Every Fitness Enthusiast Needs
Are you looking for fitness gifts for that someone special? But you're not sure if you should get them a fitness related gift? Would they be insulted? I wouldn't hesitate, fitness equipment makes great gifts! Especially if they're talking about fitness or working...
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