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For many, the 2009 golf season is just around the corner. Hopefully you have been working to increase your strength and flexibility over the past several months and are now ready to get prepared for the season.

If you haven’t been as diligent as you would have liked performing your off-season golf fitness routine, don’t despair; there is still time to prepare your body for the upcoming season.

To prepare your body for the stresses that it will undergo while you play and practice more often, you should start to incorporate rotational exercises into you golf fitness routine. Focusing your attention on your midsection will help you increase the torque or twisting force your core muscles can produce. Over the next few weeks we will be presenting examples of rotational exercises to help prepare you for the upcoming season in our Tip of the Week.

Examples of Torso Rotational Exercises:
–Russian Twists
–Core Power Punches
–Medicine Ball Lunge with Rotations
–Medicine Ball Cross Body Rotations
–Seated Russian Twist

Core Power Punches

–Stand in your golf posture holding small
hand weights.

–Engage your abdominal muscles to protect
your low back.

–Alternate punching your arms out in front of
you maintaining your elbows chest high.

–Alternate punching your arms for 10 to 12
repetitions for 2 to 3 sets.
Do you a have a golf specific fitness question or comment? Send your questions and comments to karen@golffitness-magazine.com