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CORE EXERCISES - Fitness for golf
There is a considerable amount of isometric exercise involved in a golf swing. This simply means that your muscles work without altering in length (if you can, imagine that your muscles normally work by shortening between two points over a joint creating movement).

Shoulders - used to keep your arms at an equal distance from each other and to provide a point to fix arms in one position through the swing.

Back - used to pull the arms down through the swing.

Inner & outer thigh - used to stabilise the upperbody by fixing your legs in the correct position during the back swing and down swing.

Abs / obliques / lower back / spinal muscles - these are the main muscle groups responsible for the power of your swing. They are the very core muscles that help keep us upright and allow us such a degree of mobility and need to be strong and flexible.

Upperback - important for good posture.

Before all this, you will need to make sure your general fitness is good (and so will any gym you decide to join). Look out here for some basic tips and then some specific exercises you can do for all the above. These will be in page sizes you can print off, they will offer options for people of all fitness levels, but they will be useful in checking form.

And there will be plenty of stretching info. This is something that will make a huge difference to anyone s golf. Its also routine which people who don t go to a gym for fitness or conditioning should (and do) look at.

Jason Ziel - Manager of Healthworks Fitness Club, Tel 01789 266633

Jason Zeil on 2001-01-01