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…
If you’re over 50 and admittedly not exercising like you used to, doing things such as box jumps, single-leg bounds and depth jumps are probably not on your daily checklist. That’s OK. For starters, you might not realize it, but you probably have lost your ability to leave the ground beyond a few inches. Your Read more…
Dan Swinscoe is one of Golf Digest’s Best Fitness Trainers in America, but that’s not why you’re reading about him today. He’s also an avid golfer—and in May of 2023, he played 27 holes at Silverado Golf Club in Scottsdale one day with a friend.That’s where his story starts, and it’s his hope that it Read more…
You could spend $30 a month on a gym membership. You also could outfit your basement with thousands of dollars of weights and a cardio machine like a treadmill or bike. Or…you could buy a few resistance bands for less than the cost of a tank of gas and get a decent workout to enhance Read more…
The photo above is of a golfer named Kyle Berkshire. If you’ve never heard of him, he’s a three-time World Long Drive champion and a holder of two amazing records: He has hit a golf ball 241 miles per hour and another 580 yards! In short, he’s a beast. Apart from his physical gifts, a Read more…
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…
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
Every golfer in the pro ranks has some aspect of his or her swing that stands out. For big Sepp Straka (above), who has three wins on the PGA Tour, it’s the power he generates swinging down. Sure, he’s listed as 6-foot-3, 235 pounds in the PGA Tour media guide (and probably bigger in real Read more…
It’s common to think of training muscles or muscle groups individually. You do dumbbell arm curls with the intent of getting bigger or toner biceps, right? Squats are for the glutes. Use the leg-extension machine to make the quadriceps firm. There’s nothing wrong with this mind-set, especially if you have very specific goals in the Read more…
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