Golf Specific Stretching Exercise
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Use Your Golf Club
As you see to the left, I'm using a golf club. You can be very creative with a club. There are dozens of golf specific stretching exercises you can do with your club, even in your home or office.
Using your golf club makes it more golf specific than any other tool you use. You will get the most out of it if you think of your swing with every stretch you do.
Every day I play around with my club and figure out a new golf specific stretching exercise that helps my swing.
Get In Golf Posture
If you can get in your golf posture for many of your golf specific stretching exercises you will see the quickest results. Sport specific training is the act of mimmicking your sport movement with resistance and stretching.
Since your golf posture is the most critical aspect of your golf swing, it would be wise to do as many strength and stretching exercises as possible in this dynamic position.
The indirect benefit is strengthening the exact muscles involved in maintaining a consistent golf posture throughout your swing and for 18 holes of golf.
Combine Two Or More Golf Stretches
To maximize your time investment, you can do many combination golf stretches that will stretch 2 or more golf specific areas at the same time.
In this picture, I am stretching my hip flexor muscles and my backswing muscles at the same time. This is an effective approach to your golf stretching routine that will cut your time in half.
Isolate Your Swing Faults
Most of us fight the same swing fault day in and day out. One of the most effective solutions is isolating the strength or flexibility limitation in that part of your golf swing and body.
For example, if you are a slicer, you most likely come over the top swiping across the ball causing a right to left spinning of the ball. This can be caused be an inflexible core area, where your body can't initiate from the ground up, instead your upper body goes first.
Secondly, it could be your external rotation in your lead shoulder. A slicer usually has the dread "chicken wing". This is because the external rotation of that shouder is greatly limited and the shoulder cannot rotate properly.
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