Hello Bloggers and readers! I want to tell you about the golf swing. That’s right! Again with the swing you might ask. Well yes, it’s very important that you understand a golf swing requires fit muscles and flexibility. But you knew that already right? If you didn’t, take a look…

If you want to hit a drive or golf chip with significant power behind it you will need to release the right side of you body. It is actually quite common that a lot of golfers of all skill find it extremely difficult to release their right side, despite the importance of needing to. During the impact the golfer’s body requires flexibility and physical strength in its core with good rotation in the hips. If you cannot give this to the golf swing, there will be no power there. However, if you are a golfer who struggles to release the right side, I will now explain why…

It is mostly down to what your core and hips are doing that enables the release. At the moment of impact check that your hips are very slightly opened. No? Well, they should be! Most players who are only learning how to play golf cannot do this yet. Also your right shoulder needs to come through slightly lower. This requires the body strength and muscle flexibility.

This is where golfers go wrong!

They NEVER address these physical requirements beforehand, so they NEVER can achieve this golf swing technique with their right side. If you don’t stretch and strengthen up those core muscles and practice moving those hips, you will never ever be able to release the right side of you body. This results in weak golf shots that will never go in the planned direction.

Does this make sense to you?

I really hope I’m getting you to understand that there are obvious “physical requirements” for a golfer to have or to learn in order to perform a proper mechanical golf swing out on the course. It is important that you address these required elements with a golf fitness program.

Golf Fitness Expert – Mike Pedersen calls this type of golf fitness training “preparing the body to perform”. He is also correct when he explains how nothing in the world is more rewarding to a golfer than to train you golf swing off the course and come back and see a significant result. So get this fixed and start hitting drives right on target!

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Here’s an important part of golf for you to look at:

The phrase “Fitness for Golf” is becoming more and more common and is really starting to be taken a bit more seriously by many golfers lately, especially the beginners.

It is a common occurrence when many people think learning how to play golf is carried out by simply picking up one of the golf clubs and driving the golf ball down the course; but its not. As soon as these hopefuls start to commit to the game they will find out all is not what it seemed.

It may seem quite odd to some but if you know what I mean and have had the daunting experience (as I have) of suffering a golf related injury on the course you will understand how frustrating it can all be. Twisted lower back, dead arm, sprained wrist; the list of possible injuries goes on and never seems to end.

Hearing about this really does prove that Golf Fitness is not just a fantasy story; it is actually very necessary out there on the golf courses. It is the foundation of a golfer’s game and is the key to improving and maintaining the game at the highest level possible for you.

The very movements of the swing are so unnatural, they put pressure on your muscles and your muscles will try to resist. These injuries are much more obvious to the older golfers. Some golfers get such bad injuries they even have to think about retiring from the game, sometimes permanently. This can all be prevented by doing various exercises to help loosen up the muscles and allow them to flow better while also making golfing easier and more enjoyable.

How can the golf swing be so damaging to the body?

Well, you are trying to swing a 36″ golf club through the air at approaching 110mph after all. While doing this you need to stand in a very small and unnatural body position and stance. It is only made more difficult if you don’t have a good level of golf specific strength or knowledge of the range of motion.

Also, how about putting? Have you ever tried putting for less than 5 minutes on the practice green and felt your back begin to strain? It happens to us all at some stage. This is to do with your lower back muscles’ strength. The weaker they are, the more they strain so they start to struggle when holding your body weight as you lean forward. If you were fit this wouldn’t happen.

What about the challenging shots?

Have you ever been on the second or third cut of a fairway, had grass all around you and just couldn’t seem to get the ball out of it? Now you’ve got to do it all again and your wrist is badly injured because of the hard impact.

These two scenarios are only two of many out there on golf courses and would be non-existent to the average golfer if only they had better knowledge of golf specific fitness.

In reality, golf is not as easy as it looks. The swing is extremely demanding. But you can master it with ease and fluency by doing certain stretches and most of all, without damaging your body!

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Golf swing tempo is something most of us golfers wish we had but many cannot do it consistently. You see, swinging as good as Freddie Couples is not as easy as it looks, but if you approach it well and pay careful attention to what you should be doing and what you actually are doing it will help create a much better tempo in your swing, resulting in better accuracy in your shots even at longer range.

Every golfer is build differently from the next and every golfer’s swing tempo will be affected and determined by this fact. What I mean by that is, let’s suppose you have one hyperactive person who does everything in life super fast; He/She will always have a much faster golf swing tempo than a person who likes to take their time and this will never ever change.

Now let’s say we have a mellow golfer. Everything this person does is done very slowly. They talk, walk and obviously golf slowly. These types of golfers have a very good chance of developing a good swing tempo. But why is it not happening for this person?

Tempo in your golf swing is related to muscular tension. Muscular tension is related to either tight and weak muscles, or loose and strong muscles. The latter is what you want. If you have golf muscles you’ve done some stretching on, it’s SO EASY to make a smooth, effortless and good tempo swing.

On the other hand if you have tight and weak muscles you’ll struggle with tempo forever!

The solution then is simple stretches and exercises targeting your golf swing muscles in order to loosen them up as much as possible.

There are many more lessons on learning how to play golf and Fitness for Golf at golfingvalley.com