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Article #26: Golf Fitness Tips - Five Benefits Of Adding A Few Simple Exercises To Your Golf Game

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Fitness is a major priority for increase your leg strength, hill
professional golfers on tour these days. sprinting (in short sets) will help a
Golf, like any other physical activity, lot, but don't overdo it at first,
takes a good amount of stamina because swimming is also excellent because it
you're constantly pushing yourself to takes the body weight off your legs. Hold
excel and you're doing a lot of walking on to the side of the pool and do plenty
while you're out on the course. of kicking exercises, both on your
Although it's important to focus on stomach and on your back.
improving your golf game, you'll also Once again, remember to take it slowly
need to keep in shape in order to and you'll be back in the game before you
increase your stamina and prevent injury know it.
that could keep you out of commission. #3. Upper body exercises will not only
Here are a few tips that will help to help your stamina, but also help you to
keep you on track: improve your swing. Exercises like
#1. Participate regularly in some form of push-ups (arms and chest), sit-ups (lower
strenuous cardio activity. This can be back and abdominal muscles), mountain
running, swimming, sprinting (hill climbers (brutal, but effective) and even
sprints are excellent cardio builders and jumping jacks will help you to increase
a good fat burner), stair stepping, the strength in your torso and hips,
treadmill, ect. This will also improve which will result in you being able to
the strength in your hips and your lower have more "push off" power in your down
body. swing, hit the ball straighter and
Always remember to stretch before and farther than before and also improve your
after any type of strenuous exercise. consistancy.
This is not only important to decrease #4. It's also a proven fact that
soreness after your workout, but most exercising regularly will help to reduce
importantly to help prevent injury. stress, therefore helping you to "keep
#2. Improving Abdominal strength is your cool" on the back 9 while the other
helpful in preventing injuries to your guy sweats and stresses out. You'll also
lower back. This is an injury common to feel better off of the course too. You
golfers. You can improve your abdominal can realistically count on a "whole life"
strength by doing sets of sit ups, benefit from working out. Oh, you'll also
crunches, swimming, ect. lose weight and lower your cholesterol.
Another injury common to beginning Let's recap what we've learned here.
golfers is shin splints. You may also #5. Doing the correct exercises on a
have these if you've taken an extended regular basis will help you to improve
lay off from the game and are just your golf game, reduce your risk of
returning. The best recommendation that I injury, increase your strength and
can make for shin splints is to take a stamina and also have great health
slower pace when starting out or benefits, such as weight loss, lowering
returning to the game. I've personally bad cholesterol and looking and feeling
suffered with shin splints ever since my emotionally better.
days in the military and it just takes One last question....What are you waiting
time to build or rebuild the strength in for?
the muscles in that area of your legs. Start incorporating fitness into your
Try riding a stationary bike regularly to golf game today!






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