Taking it to the Basics

Article by Dr Larry Callaway

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When you are looking to take steps to improvement of your golf game, fitness should be top. Yes I understand that you MUST practice to break into the 80’s and 70’s as well as being consistent, but if your body can’t implement your practice it is for naught. Golf Fitness allows a few things: decrease chance of injury, increased chance for distance and assurance, and health benefits that spill over into all aspects of your life.

So let’s take it to the basics.There are 5 basic fitness components for golf to excel. Each has individual elements but none should be ignored because they are uniformly important. Golf demands golfers to have basic flexibility, stability, balance, coordination and muscular endurance. If any of these qualities are absent, the golf swing will be inefficient and inconsistent. The golf swings is athletic from stance to follow through. All major muscle groups are used in a specific sequence to allow distance, consistency, and accuracy. The non optimized golfer might hit a few solid shots in a round of golf, but that is chance and not skill.

Without taking it to the basic fitness components, your swing cannot be consistent, nor will it ever have accuracy along with distance.

Stability: This is your ability to utilize your strength and flexibility.You need have stability have an optimized swing.

Flexibility: Flexibility is a must to achieve a full backswing and front swing without strain. Lack of flexibility creates strain in your body and ultimately affects your golf swing, depriving your golf swing of club head speed, accuracy, and distance.

Balance: Balance is your body’s ability to perform all the component of your golf swing while staying on your feet. As you begin to improve stability, flexibility, and strength often times balance training is missed. If you are strong but are falling out of your swing you are losing almost everything you have worked so hard for.

Coordination: The golf swing requires a particular sequence of motion. This motion must be done over and over again in the same sequence to have lowered scores and consistency.

Endurance: Having endurance is your body’s ability to maintain all of the above components for an entire round. Not only that when you body has endurance is allows you to maintain the mental aspect of the game a little bit better.

Implementing golf fitness for your golf swing MUST include ALL of the above components and you will get you results!