Golf Exercises for Core Stability- Hit further with less pain by following these exercises for golf.

Golf exercises have been growing in popularity over recent years as people begin to understand the value of fitness to golf performance.

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I'm going to show you three golf exercises related to core stability that you can do in order to

play better,

protect your back, and

feel better.

These three drills are about teaching you to resist torque and create stability even while we're doing rotational movements with the rest of your body. With all of our training like

With all of our golf exercises, we don't want to be mimicking our golf swing with a weighted exercise.

If it looks too close to a golf swing it will do more to screw up your mechanics than it will do to actually create strength in the areas that we wanted a golf exercise to create strength in.

Golf Exercise for Core Strength #1: Half Kneeling Chop & Lift

I'm using a cable stack for the first exercise, but you can also use an exercise band or resistance band as you do it.

The goal of this golf exercise is to keep the shoulders and hips facing forward, while preventing the cable from pulling us out of position. The cable will try pull you down into a collapsed hunched down position.

This exercise is great because it helps teach golfers to keep their hips strong and stable just as much as it does teach them how to keep their torso strong and stable.

This is also great for golfers because it's dealing with forces that are in a rotational motion rather than a straightforward straight back alignment we find with a lot of typical core stability drills.

Golf Exercise for Core Strength #2: Side Plank With Reach

This second exercise again teaches you to stabilize your trunk, stabilize your torso, stabilize your hips, against rotational movement rather than linear movement.

For this drill we're gonna be on our side, elbow flat on the ground reach. Opposite arm reached all the way up. We have to create that straight line all the way from our ears down to our feet. We don't want to be tucked down and crunched under.

Stack it nice and tall, we're basically going from that tall position, reaching all the way under as far back as we can go before returning to the start.

There's about a bajillion ways to cheat on this drill stickler. Watch the video above for a few examples.

Make sure you do this exercise on both sides. These are great for training stability throughout a wide range of rotated positions.

Golf Exercise for Core Strength #3: Quadruped Extensions

Quadruped extensions are basically a fancy word for on all fours. We 're going to be practicing again, what do you know stability with our trunk and torso while we create movement with our arms and our legs. This one using a

This exercise is completed with the golfer using a broomstick or club our back. From a position on hands and knees, maintain a flat back position without hunching and rounding the spine.

The stick will let you know if you're cheating.

Opposite arm and leg stretch all the way out, with the goal to get them nice and pointed. From their return all the way back that start spot on all fours.

With this exercise it's probably a little bit less about your feeling the burn or feeling really tired as a result. This exercise is going to be a challenge, but it will mostly be a challenge for your coordination and your body control rather than creating excessive fatigue in any one particular muscle

Wrap:

So there you guys have it; three golf exercises for core stability to help:

protect your back,

you play better and

you have less soreness.

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