Professional Golf and Fitness -
Physical Golf
Advertisements bombard you these days for $500 drivers, $6 golf balls, and $100 hourly golf lessons. Yet the single most important piece of equipment you have as a golfer is your body. No matter the amount of money invested, when you address the ball on the first tee, your body is responsible for swinging the club, not the equipment. And your performance suffers if the body cannot physically perform, if it is not fit. What is the Golf Fitness program? It’s about improving your golf performance…your game. Golf requires power, strength, and finesse. The golfing athlete develops these qualities through the careful repetition of skills and painstaking attention to detail. Golf competition and techniques have advanced so greatly that just playing the game is not enough. The explosive nature of the golf swing places intense stress on the shoulder, back, and hip joints. To prevent injury therefore, it is important to perform exercises encompassing flexibility, strength, power, balance and endurance. This program includes these five components in addition to swing training, and will help condition the musculoskeletal system and reduce the risk of injuries associated with the golf swing. Preseason preparation is a must for any golfer who has low levels of muscular strength and flexibility; however, it is important that a player remain year-round in a golf-specific training regimen. Being fit for golf means your gaining longevity without increasing the risk of developing chronic pain.
Golf Rehabilitation
Golfers are Athletes!
The golf swing is a rapid athletic movement, which requires muscles to fire sequentially and together to provide a coordinated, harmonious movement. With the proper combination of strength, range of motion, balance/coordination, appropriate swing mechanics and good physical condition you can achieve your desired goals.
There is no perfect golf swing and nobody swings the same way, but
everyone seeks the same thing.
Golf is a physical sport
Golf is a physical sport and should be treated as such. There are muscles that need to be strong and others that need to be flexible. By incorporating a golf specific training program you will maximize the ability to become a better ball striker, increase your distance and virtually golf in a pain free range. Keeping the muscles strong that are associated within the entire golf swing phase will help your joints withstand the motions involved and increase your longevity of the game. Low back is the number one injury in golf. The lower body needs to be stable in order for the upper body to rotate in the opposite direction. Your core area needs to be strong to keep your address posture and eliminate any strain in the lower back.
Shoulder Injury Prevention
The Shoulder girdle is quite complex. Very few people do strengthening exercises for the rotator cuff muscles. There are four of them: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and the subscapularis. These four rotator cuff muscles attach the humeral head into the glenoid, which in turn stabilizes the humeral head. If there is too much laxity in these muscles then every time you move the shoulder they get pinched within the joint capsule and just grind with movement. The possibilities of a tear, partial tear, impingement, frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis are not uncommon. When you watch a golf swing, it is obvious the shoulder muscles are needed to create a powerful swing, but not so obvious on how the shoulder functions.
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