If you hit better iron shots than drives, you can improve your tee shots by training your body to rotate without moving so much laterally. And if you drive the ball better than you hit irons, you need a better blend of lateral and rotational movement.
This is a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg conundrum, but it’s often difficult to tell if bad swing mechanics are the result of playing with pain/injuries or pain/injuries are the result of having bad swing mechanics.Furthermore, is a dysfunctional golf swing the result of poor mechanics or physical limitations? Or both?If you’re suffering from low-back pain Read more…
Breathing isn’t just involuntary, it’s biomechanics. A Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer shares five simple breathing exercises to help you unlock a bigger, more powerful golf swing.
No matter how much weight you can curl with your biceps, no matter how fast you can swing your arms, no matter how light your driver is, it’s your legs, hips and glutes that do much of the real work in powering a golf swing.
When you think about exercises, you probably focus on the first part of the movement—such as the push part of a push-up. But what happens on the way back down could be more important in terms of strength gains and injury prevention. For example, when jumping from a squat position, it’s the landing—not the jump—that’s Read more…
There have been dozens of studies over the years that conclude the health benefits of playing golf are far-reaching. Most focus on the physical aspects—better strength and balance, improved bone density, less risk of heart disease and strokes, etc.—but an often overlooked perk is what the game does for your mental well-being.You might think that Read more…
Lauren McMillin, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer, says doing the popular yoga move known as the “Tree Pose” is a great way to improve stability in your golf swing.
If your blood tests indicate low levels of testosterone, you might be able to avoid synthetic steroid supplements – and their nasty side effects – by making lifestyle changes to boost levels naturally.
If you don’t recognize the golfer in the photo above, it’s Cameron Champ. Albeit he was a bit younger in this photo—he’s 30 now—Champ has aged well. How well? If you missed the RBC Canadian Open this past June, then you might be interested in knowing how far Champ drove the ball on the ninth Read more…
Most golfers are familiar with compression clothing and its benefits in terms of increasing blood circulation and its healing agents to areas where you feel pain/soreness, etc. What you might be less familiar with is literally the reverse of that concept.
If you’re struggling to repeatedly make solid contact with the golf ball, there are plenty of possible reasons, but the most typical is improper sequencing in the downswing, says Jeff Ritter, one of Golf Digest’s Best Teachers in Oregon. The typical higher-handicap player relies too heavily on the torso and arms to get back to Read more…
If you’ve ever wondered about those inverted-traction tables, the ones where a person hangs virtually upside down (below), their purpose is to decompress the spine, to regain some of the space between vertebrae that we lose over time from a variety of reasons—too much sitting being among the biggest. When the gel-like disc between the Read more…
Training for golf comes in a lot of forms, ranging from simple cardiovascular exercises to improve stamina on the course to jumping to improve swing speed to stretching to improve your swing. There are so many things you can do, you might wonder where do you start? Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer Justin Barr boils Read more…
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