Bryson DeChambeau swings the golf club really, really hard. Should you be doing the same?
You're in the middle of your third of eight Zoom meetings for the day. Yes, you realize that having a meeting about planning the next meeting to review the minutes of an earlier meeting is vitally important, but -- deep down -- all you're really thinking about is the next time you'll be able to tee it up.
It's no secret that the golfers winning these days on the PGA, LPGA, and Champions Tour are a lot stronger and fitter than the folks who were winning just a few years ago. It's also no secret that the best golfers in the world work on their bodies just as much as they work on their long and short games. The golf-specific fitness training and conditioning they do in the gym is the real game-changer and is vital for keeping them performing at their best.
If you've been reading our blogs and eBooks for any length of time, you know that when it comes to training our players we take a Big Picture look at how the body factors into the golf swing. And it doesn't matter if that player just won $15 million and the FedEx Cup or if he just won $80 bucks and his weekly foursome. If you're looking to play your best, you have to train your entire body to be successful. But while a lot of players may do some quality upper-body training and lower-body training, many may be sabotaging their game by not focusing enough -- or correctly -- on the thing that ties the upper-body and lower-body together: the core.
In the fitness world, there’s a lot of emphasis on building strength through resistance training, whether you’re pumping iron or using your own bodyweight. There’s a good reason for that: increased strength comes from lifting increasingly heavier things over and over again. But strengthening alone won’t necessarily translate into bigger drives. To get the most out of your body, you also need to be focusing on flexibility.
It's kind of ironic that I'm writing a blog about senior golfers on the week of my birthday. These days, birthdays don't seem to have quite the same excitement as they did when I was eight or nine years old. But getting older doesn't mean your golf game can't get a lot more exciting. Golf fitness isn't just for players on The Tour. These 3 simple golf exercises for seniors will not only help improve your game, but they'll also help prevent injury and have you feeling better both on and off the course.
1. Remove the extra parts from your golf swing
2. Increase accuracy off the tee and on the fairway
3. Increase stability on uneven lies
1. Don't squander the few minutes you have before tee time
2. Warm up vertically and rotationally
3. Bring an activated body to first tee instead of trying to find it there
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