| Fitness is a major priority for professional golfers on | | | | Try riding a stationary bike regularly to increase your |
| tour these days. Golf, like any other physical activity, | | | | leg strength, hill sprinting (in short sets) will help a lot, but |
| takes a good amount of stamina because you're | | | | don't overdo it at first, swimming is also excellent |
| pushing yourself to excel and you're doing a lot of | | | | because it takes the body weight off your legs. Hold |
| walking while you're out on the course. | | | | on to the side of the pool and do plenty of kicking |
| Although it's important to focus on improving your golf | | | | excercises. |
| game, you'll also need to keep in shape in order to | | | | Once again, remember to take it slowly and you'll be |
| increase your stamina and prevent injury that could | | | | back in the game before you know it. |
| keep you out of commission. Here are a few tips that | | | | #3. Upper body excercises will not only help your |
| will help to keep you on track: | | | | stamina, but also help you to improve your swing. |
| #1. Participate regularly in some form of strenuous | | | | Excercises like push-ups (arms and chest), sit-ups |
| cardio activity. This can be running, swimming, sprinting | | | | (lower back and abdominal muscles), mountain climbers |
| (hill sprints are excellent cardio builders and a good fat | | | | (brutal, but effective) and even jumping jacks will wiil |
| burner), stair stepping, treadmill, ect. This will also | | | | help you to increase the strength in your torso and hips |
| improve the strength in your hips and your lower body. | | | | which will result in you being able to have more "push |
| Always remember to stretch before and after any | | | | off" power in your down swing, hit the ball straighter |
| type of strenuous exercise. This is not only important | | | | and farther than before and also improve your |
| to decrease soreness after your workout, but most | | | | consistancy. |
| importantly to help prevent injury. | | | | #4. It's also a proven fact that excercising regularly will |
| #2. Improving Abdominal strength is helpful in | | | | help to reduce stress, therefore helping you to "keep |
| preventing injuries to your lower back. This is an injury | | | | your cool" on the back 9 while the other guy sweats |
| common to golfers. You can improve your abdominal | | | | and stresses out. You'll also feel better off the course |
| strength by doing sets of sit ups, crunches, swimming, | | | | too. You can realistically count on a "whole life" benefit |
| ect. | | | | from working out. Oh, you'll also lose weight and lower |
| Another injury common to beginning golfers is shin | | | | your cholesterol. |
| splints. You may also have these if you've taken an | | | | Let's recap what we've learned here. |
| extended lay off from the game and are just returning. | | | | Doing the correct excercises on a regular basis will |
| The best recommendation that I can make for shin | | | | help you to improve your golf game, reduce your risk |
| splints is to take a slower pace when starting out or | | | | of injury, increase your srength and stamina and also |
| returning to the game. I've personally suffered with shin | | | | have great health benefits, such as weight loss, |
| splints ever since my days in the military and it just | | | | lowering bad cholesterol and looking and feeling |
| takes time to build or rebuild the strength in the | | | | emotionally better. |
| muscles in that area of your leg. | | | | One last question....What are you waiting for? |