| Golf exercises involving flexibility training can | | | | club on the correct path. |
| improve your shoulder turn and golf swing speed. | | | | The most common areas of the body where |
| The biomechanics of the golf swing require high | | | | flexibility becomes an issues for the golf swing |
| levels of flexibility to execute correctly. And all to | | | | and most individuals is the lower back, hamstrings, |
| often the golfer is lacking in the required levels of | | | | hips, and shoulders. "Tightness" in any of these |
| flexibility to execute the golf swing correctly, | | | | areas of body can impede the ability of drawing |
| resulting in compensations to occur within the | | | | the club on the correct swing path. Resulting in |
| swing. Causing a loss of club head speed, distance, | | | | poor execution of the golf swing itself. |
| and accuracy with every shot in the bag. | | | | Now here is the interesting point about flexibility |
| In order to prevent such a situation from | | | | and the golf swing. The greater range of motion |
| occurring and to allow you the opportunity to | | | | you can get the club to move through in relation |
| execute the golf swing correctly. We must assure | | | | to the swing plane (remember, range of motion is |
| ourselves your body has the flexibility levels | | | | contingent on your bodies flexibility), the greater |
| required of the golf swing. The achievement of | | | | amount of power you can develop. Thus allowing |
| this result can occur through the utilization of | | | | you to increase your clubhead speed, increase the |
| flexibility exercises for golf. | | | | distance of your drives, and lower your scores. A |
| First off let us quickly define flexibility. Flexibility is | | | | pretty simple equation when you put it all |
| the ability of your body to move through the | | | | together. |
| "required" range of motion to perform the activity | | | | So if you are finding "tightness" in any of the |
| at hand (a simplified definition but it work it for | | | | muscles incorporated within the golf swing this |
| us). Knowing this definition and combining it with | | | | could well be hampering your swing and the |
| what you know about golf swing mechanics. We | | | | distance you are hitting all of your golf shots. |
| can come to the conclusion that in order to swing | | | | Implementing golf exercises in the form of |
| a club on the correct path, the body must have | | | | flexibility training in your golf fitness program could |
| the required flexibility parameters to move that | | | | help this situation. |