| Functional flexibility for golf is an important | | | | difference between building muscles and enhancing |
| element. Quite often there are a lot of feelings of | | | | strength. When developing strength for golf, all |
| inadequacy, more so physical inadequacy, on the | | | | good golf exercise programs will involve working |
| golf course. | | | | with dumbbells which a lot of people associate |
| Most golfers wish that they were a lot stronger | | | | with muscle and body building. |
| than they are and yet still be able to have | | | | The truth of the matter is that in golf, dumbbells |
| functional flexibility. Most golfers realize deep inside | | | | are used to build strength, and not muscles, by |
| that flexibility and strength are important for good | | | | lifting much lighter weights up and down, more |
| golf. | | | | times than a bodybuilder does. |
| Yet these feelings and desire need not remain | | | | The sessions are also much shorter than those of |
| just that, any golfer can take action and | | | | a body builder who have to spend most of the |
| dramatically improve on their functional flexibility | | | | day in the gym lifting extremely heavy weights to |
| and strength. Any golfer can ensure that the next | | | | build their muscles. |
| time they set foot on the course to play their | | | | Actually it is true that building muscles will tend to |
| beloved game, they will be brimming with | | | | bring in stiffness and the very opposite of |
| confidence and not inadequacy. | | | | functional flexibility. |
| Actually both strength and functional flexibility go | | | | A good golf exercise training program must also |
| together and the two cannot be divorced from | | | | include stretch exercises which are a great help in |
| one another. Weak muscles will tend to be very | | | | attaining functional flexibility for golf. |
| stiff, the opposite of flexibility. So in other words, | | | | It is the functional flexibility gained from weight |
| it is true to say that by building up strength, a | | | | training and stretches that can greatly improve |
| golfer will almost automatically be improving their | | | | the golf swing of any golfer. Actually the greater |
| functional flexibility. | | | | the functional flexibility for golf...the better the golf |
| But let me make it clear here that there is a huge | | | | swings. |