It’s true that all you need are two fingers and a stopwatch to figure out whether your heart is in overdrive as you play golf. Your pulse/heart rate is a key indicator of how the sympathetic nervous system, the fight or flight nerves, are behaving. Knowing you are nervous is one thing, but what if Read more…
When their side bend is insignificant or incorrect, you can pretty much bet the golfer is going to make poor contact with the ball and the flight will likely be a slice or a pull (those two mis-hits are related).
You’re looking here at Golf Digest’s No. 1 ranked teacher in America, Mark Blackburn. No, this isn’t what Mark looks like in his downswing. Here he’s modeling a classic fault—sliding. It’s what happens when your body drifts out in front of the ball’s position during the through-swing. Another classic mistake is swaying, which is when Read more…
Instead, you should be more focused on how they are supposed to operate with other parts of the body during the golf swing, says Ryon Bosscher, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer.
Most golf instructors focus on improving a player’s backswing because a lot of flaws in the downswing occur as a result of starting from a bad position at the top, says David Leadbetter, one of Golf Digest’s Legends of Golf Instruction. “It’s an attempt to recover from a poor backswing,” he says. To take the Read more…
If you know a golfer who isn’t interested in hitting the ball farther, you might want to gather some friends and family for an intervention. Something’s not right.For the 99.9 percent of us who do want to crank more drives, improving technique will obviously do wonders, but so will a different approach to your workouts. Read more…
Any exercise is good exercise. That said, some exercises can be customized to be better for golfers, says Ben Shear, Golf Digest’s Chief Fitness Advisor. Simple adjustments to three classic moves can really give your game a boost. See below to learn how to modify them. This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
Abdomen muscles such as the rectus and transverse abdominus are hugely responsible for keeping the body stable when you perform any athletic activity, that includes swinging a golf club 90 miles per hour or faster. Without those muscles firing, you’d have a heckuva time swinging in balance much less trying to get the clubhead squarely Read more…
There is no catch-all, perfect exercise for golfers, but there are several that have wide-ranging benefits to improve performance on the course and help ward off injuries. One such exercise you might consider for your workout right now—if you haven’t already—is the Romanian deadlift. Commonly known as RDLs, think of them as a reverse action Read more…
The story seems to be told and re-told every time a young bomber reaches the professional ranks. When asked how they got so long off the tee, they’ll say as junior golfers, they just swung as hard as they could and then figured out over time how to find the fairway with that swing. From Read more…
Most fitness experts will tell you that if you play golf, dealing with forward-head-posture issues are likely to be magnified by the way you stand when you hit shots. You already live your life with your head buried in your mobile phone, and your neck muscles spend much more time in flexion than extension as Read more…
If you think the goal is to touch your toes, however, you might be surprised to know that it’s not nearly as important as other aspects of the test in spotting dysfunction.
Australian Golf Digest
