4 Exercises to Reinforce the Hip Hinge – The Second Progression for Your Golf Fitness Program
In the first of this two-article exercise progression, I said that mastering the hip hinge is important, regardless if you're looking to hit the golf ball farther, improving athletic conditioning, or carrying the groceries into the house. You can read that article by...
Kettlebell Golf Workout – Why Kettlebell Workouts Can Improve Your Golf Swing
This article is a guest post written by Kettlebell Kings. Some links may be affiliate links. The perfect golf swing is a combination of power and control. Power is a combination of strength and speed, while control is the ability to maintain joint stability through a...
Golf Exercises at Home – Where to Start?
More and more people are doing golf exercises at home. But let's face it, knowing where to start a golf exercise program is confusing. The internet and social media overwhelm us with golf specific exercises. Don't get me wrong, most of the exercises are great and are...
The Importance of Flexibility, Mobility, and Stability in the Golf Swing
The interdependence of flexibility, mobility, and stability in the golf swing isn’t discussed enough. You can’t excel in golf without improving all three.
Start Your Golf Fitness Program with the Basics – Hip Hinge Progression
Are you looking to start a golf fitness or as I'd rather say a golf conditioning program? If so, then you need to start with the basics and the first basic you need to tackle is the hip hinge progression. Why do you need to master the hip hinge? I'm not going to get...
Use this Foam Rolling Matrix to Improve Hip Hinge
Using these 5 foam rolling moves will prepare your body for exercise. Specifically, to improve your hip hinging movements and lower body mobility & flexibilit
How to Relieve Lower Back Pain with 5 Simple Exercises
These 5 exercises will show you how to relieve lower back pain. There are many causes of lower back pain, and often the causes overlap. Improving mobility is the key.
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 these barriers, especially for people that have jobs...
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 for rotation, power, and swing speed, but also to keep your posture...
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 limitations will immediately improve your golf game. In a good golf swing,...
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 course all the time eliminates better shot angles to the greens and...
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 the movement. Everyone knows how important it is to disassociate...
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.
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 golf swing sequence is about timing, and knowing when to...
How to Cure Your Elbow Problems in 5-minutes a Day – Theraband
WebMD states that up to 3% of the population has tennis elbow or golfer's elbow. That is 9.5 million people in the United States alone! If you have elbow issues, you could reduce or eliminate your pain by doing exercises for as little as 5-minutes per day using an...
3 Golfers Elbow Exercises that Will Get Rid of the Pain
Many people have elbow pain often referred to as golfer’s elbow. Here are some golfers elbow exercises that will reduce the pain and help improve mobility and strength in the wrists.
How to Improve Your Thoracic Spine Mobility and Hit the Ball Farther
Most golfers realize that a bigger shoulder turn, both in the backswing and follow through, should translate into more distance on their drives. But once golfers realize the club shaft isn't parallel to the ground at the top of their backswing they fight their lack of...
How to Improve Your Golf Swing Speed Training
Golf swing speed training will help you produce more power so you can hit the golf ball farther. Several drills & exercises are shown so you can swing faster and hit the golf ball deep down the fairway.
5 Easy Golf Balance Drills You Need To Do Now To Improve Your Swing
Golf fitness programs underutilize golf balance drills.
How many times have you caught yourself off-balance after you hit the golf ball?
Did you notice when you hit the ball well you pose after the shot?
When you hit a poor shot, you find yourself catching your balance, leaning to the side, or taking a step forward in order not to fall over. That should be a clue that good balance is necessary to hit good shots and play consistently.
What are the Best Anti Rotation Exercises? Five Pallof Press Variations
Anti-rotation exercises might seem backasswards. After all, golfers need to rotate to hit the golf ball, right?
Wouldn’t golfers want to work on exercises that will improve rotational speed? If so what is with all the anti rotation exercise hype?
An Easy Exercise that will Crush Your Core – Stir the Pot Exercise
Stir the Pot and Stop Doing Crunches What if I told you, that you'll never have to do a sit-up or crunch again? Would you like that? Are you nodding yes? It's true. Oh, I know that Gary Player swears by sit-ups, he supposedly does a 1,000 every day. But Mr. Player...
How To Strengthen Your Core With The Deadbug
Most people have never heard of the deadbug exercise. And that's too bad because it's an excellent core trainer for golfers that requires no gym equipment and can be performed right on your living room floor. Much like the sit-up. If you've read a few of my articles...
The One Best Golf Exercise to Add Power to Your Golf Swing
If I had to choose one exercise that would help the majority of golfers add power to their golf swing, it would be the deadlift. Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) instructors say “Glutes are the king of the golf swing” because the power generated from the ground...
