How to Reduce Your Golf Handicap Through Golf Fitness

- Submitted by http://www.GolfersCoreFitness.Info

Chances are, if you’re an avid golfer, you’d love to be a single digit handicap (sdh) golfer. So what do these ’sdh’ golfers have that you don’t?

You may be thinking they’re simply “better golfers,” and that may be partially true, but odds are they are also more in tune with how their level of overall fitness (strength, flexibility, endurance) affects their ability to play a great round of golf - AND recover quickly between rounds.

Single digit handicap golfers have gone beyond ’swing technique’ and are committed to being as fit as possible for golf and the physical demands that come with the game.

They’ve developed a golf specific fitness routine that ensures that their bodies are capable of playing an enviable round of golf, with minimal risk of injury.

You too can focus on fitness and improve your golf game.

One of the first areas you need to look at is your core strength. Your core muscles are those in your torso, the ones that are critical to how well you swing the club. If your back, abdominal and shoulder muscles are not in shape they are not going to be able to support you well enough to produce an excellent swing. Getting your core muscles in shape will give you a more powerful, fluid swing, offering more distance and accuracy.

Shoulder rotation is another key area. By exercising and stretching your shoulder muscles through an expanded, but natural, range of motion you will increase your flexibility, ensuring a full swing with balanced rotation. This goes for spinal rotation as well. If you work your back muscles, consistently keeping them limber, they will enable you to more efficiently swing the club - with a predictable repetitiveness (VERY important)

The majority of single digit handicap players have full, and fluid, range of motion in their shoulders in addition to optimal hip, spine and neck flexibility.

Finally, a properly structured fitness routine improves your ‘golf’ endurance, making a long round of golf much easier to get through - and recover from. This means that your first swing of the round and your last will have the same level of control, accuracy and power… And that late-round, game killing fatigue is avoided - allowing you to keep your mental focus when it counts the most.

Becoming a single digit handicap golfer is about more than skill, it’s about preparing your body to use the skills you have, every time you pick up a club.

And more importantly - when your body is ‘fit for golf’ - it allows you to further develop your ‘golf skills’ by allowing you to get the most out of your practice time.

Submitted by http://www.GolfersCoreFitness.Info
Go there to learn about the balanced and targeted program they have put together.
The Creators of The Golf Fitness Challenge, Craig and Susan, have too many credentials to list here - but I can assure you - I don’t post any articles from outside professionals unless they ‘know their stuff’.

Your trainer,
Joey Atlas - Golf Performance Specialist

Free Golf Exercises Improve Golf Flexibility and Performance

As the orders are coming in for the ‘Optimum Golf Flexibility’ DVD sets - we always look to see what our clients write in the comments box.

This is a great one - and it’s a testimony to my generous marketing method of giving away free golf exercises that actually help you.

It highlights why it’s no surprise that most people come back to purchase the complete DVD set.

“…Tried the free exercises for a couple of days this weekend, and for the first time since Oct, I was able to hit balls at the driving range without my back killing me (I pulled something in the Fall), and the next day it’s even better! Thanks!”

Charles N.
- Texas

Great stuff, wouldn’t you say?

Joey Atlas

Loose Hips + Balanced Flexibility + Stable Core = Better Golf

Last week I was wrapping up a consulting assignment for a family here in the USA. [I occasionally open up my schedule for high end assignments - where I go into a home or a company and design their exercise facility and help them implement a custom program, specific to their needs and goals...]

The parents were both golfers - and they asked me a great question: “Joey, when did you learn to place emphasis on flexibility and bodyweight training as opposed to all these machines and weights based programs that are out there?”

Rather than write out my whole answer here - I was lucky enough to find a recent article from another golf conditioning expert - who sums it up perfectly:

Here is an excerpt from a recent article by Sean Cochran, who writes for PGATOUR.COM:

“…it is probably best to provide some background on the importance of the hips relative to the golf swing. If we review the mobility/stability pattern of human movement describe in previous articles, we learn that the hips are an integral joint in the execution of the golf swing. It is a joint requiring mobility in addition to strength from the musculature surrounding the joint.

As a result, it is imperative within our golf fitness training program that we address the hips extensively with both mobility and stability training. The development of mobility comes through the implementation of range of motion and flexibility exercises, both of which have been covered in previous articles. Stability is developed through strength training.”
This article can be read via this link

Now - There’s more to it, as I can write a whole book on the subject - but as you and me both know, books are very hard to follow when it involves physical instruction. That’s why I created the ‘Optimum Flexibility for Golf’ DVDs

Most golfers reading this already own and are benefiting from the DVDs - But if you are one of the few who are not - then it might be time to make your move so you can write me an email like Michael here:

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: golf performance
From: “Michael Wieck”
Date: Fri, January 09, 2009 1:50 pm
To: joey @ joeyatlas. com

Joey,

Michael

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