Monday, October 3, 2011

Core Training For Golfers In Depth

By Christy Lyons


Core training is just what the doctor ordered for many a golfer - just what you need for that extra power and distance. Just like any other sport, the core serves as your motor. THE CORE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING! The modern golf swing is definitely a "core-focused" movement; unlike the older swing technique of lower body action dominant.

You probably have heard the term core training for golfers, but do you know what it means and how to implement it into your golf performance routine?

Your core is your abs, plain and simple - it is your body's midsection, right smack dab at the abdomen. To put things in perspective, you see your chances of hitting a long drive approach the neighborhood of zero to ten percent if you have a weak or stiff midsection.

This happens all the time with senior golfers, no offense meant. They have absolutely ZERO core strength, absolutely ZERO flexibility, and when it comes to yardage of the tee - don't ask. Then you'd hear the senior golfers whining about all those yards they wish they could hit, if only they were younger, if only they were stronger, if only this, if only that - we're not generalizing here, but we see it a lot in the seniors, thus the reference.

If that sounds like you (even if you are not a senior golfer), then you can remedy this with little to no hassle at home, quite quickly at that with just the minimum of equipment. You don't exactly need to pump iron at the nearby health club in order to improve your flexibility and core rotational strength.

You can do exercises as simple as grabbing a single handweight, getting in your golf posture, and rotating back and through holding the handweight in front of your stomach. Why, you can do those stretches at work, while sitting in your comfy office chair! It's so simple it's ridiculous - sit upright, then start reaching around the chair like so - twist your body to the right as far as you can, then do the same to the left.

When it comes to core training, those are just a few exercises you can perform, but they are just the exercises you want to do to build up that core of yours for golfing.

You will be amazed at how much power you acquire in your swing when you implement a core training for golfers program. Even if that's all you did for the time-being, you'd be way ahead of the game.

But my guess is once you start slow and easy, you'll get the "runners high" and want to do more. And this doesn't have to be akin to Navy SEAL training! You can spend as little as 10 minutes a couple of times a week and see results.

Don't put it off any longer!

Join your fellow golfers and get some core training going!




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