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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. Here is an exampleof a torso rotational exercise:
Spinal Rotations
Step 1: Stand in your golf posture and hold a club horizontally behind your upper back.
Step 2: Slowly rotate your upper body to the right as if you were making a backswing. Pause at the farthest part of the rotation.
Step 3: After you have reached the top of your swing, slowly unwind and rotate your upper body to the left as if you were following through to the finish of your swing.
Step 4: Return to start position and repeat exercise, alternating rotations from side to side.
Step 5: Perform 15-25 repetitions.