Most recreational golfers are pretty determined to improve their game. They go to the driving range, take lessons, and buy the best clubs all in an effort to take a few strokes off of the final score so they can have bragging rights when they beat their friends.
However, most golfers miss out on the most important element to improving their golf game.
The key to improving your golf game is all about strengthening the golf-specific muscle groups and creating balance at the major joints involved with your golf swing.
Specifically, you really want to work on improving hip rotation and spinal rotation. If your hip rotation is inadequate, then your spine will have to rotate more to compensate. This can lead to back pain and injuries with golfing.
The opposite is also true, if your spinal rotation is inadequate you can develop hip pain due to the need to get that rotation range of motion from the hips and an overcompensation to do so.
Rotation range of motion is a good start, but you also need to strengthen the muscles that perform spinal and hip rotation during your golf swing. This will help to generate power and give you the ability to drive the ball further and straighter.
Muscle balance around a joint is also important. If there is an imbalance (one muscle is weaker or tighter compared to another), then you will increase the chances of your golf club straying away from its intended path, leading to hooks and slices and a very frustrated golfer.
At Stride to Health in Simsbury, our “Golf Health Program” consists of a biomechanical evaluation and a golf-specific strengthening and muscle balance session to help improve your golf swing and take a few strokes off of your golf score. This program is designed to help Farmington Valley golfers take their golf game to the next level by simply strengthening specific muscle groups and focusing on balance within your body.
After you learn these exercises, you can help improve your golf game in just one hour per week by exercising for just 15 minutes per day for 4 days per week.
To learn more about Stride to Health’s “Golf Health Program”, click here.
