December 6, 2006
Off season golf power training
Any error in swing plane, timing, or sequence of your swing will cause your golf game to suffer. Much depends on your overall fitness. Tiger Woods is considered on of the fittest golfers and his play evidences that fact. Once you get tired your technical proficiency and power levels drop. To keep your accuracy and consistency, golf strength exercises are a must.
First, one should have a baseline level of conditioning in order to maintain consistent play and avoid fatigue. Next thing the surfaces in the minds of most golfer is the power swing.
Speed of Movement The golf swing is a very technical movement and one should start at slow speeds to avoid injury. These are multi-joint motions should start with stretches that cover the full range of motion. A few simple stretching and flexibility excercises will set you up for when you use your muscles as a unit in the golf swing.
Short intense workouts with loads and speeds as close as possible to the actual club will aid in you power swing. For longer workouts, a heavy resistance training used over a full range of motion will benefit you best in your stretching/flexibility training.
Take time to warm up before your swing. Not only do you avoid injury but you will experience greater swing speeds.
Off season power training will result significant improvements in your flexibility, swing club head speed, swing speed, distance, power, ball speed, balance, stability and overall scores.
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