Golf Tips - Exercises for Golf

Male Speaker: Hi! My name is DJ and with Ms. Caroline. Caroline: Hello! Male Speaker: We're going to take you to the fundamentals of stretching out for your golf game. The very important is stretch out for two reasons: One, you want to minimize the risk of any injuries; and two, you want to increase your range of motion and flexibility through your golf stroke to improver your game. You always want to stretch out your entire body, so we're going to start off by putting your hands on the club and picking the club up about waist height here. If you take the club in a side to side motion, just walking back and forth, we're trying to specifically target just in the wrist joint and the elbow joint right now. Keeping the shoulders perfectly immobile, so your shoulders have no range motion here. Stretching it up, lubricating those joint, so you're not going to have any tears of pulls when you're stretching out. That's perfect! At the same time, you can also hold that and just rotate it up and down, just like that. You'll notice that Caroline's shoulders are perfectly leveled here, and if you can see, right here her forearms, really working and loosening up here. It's excellent! Once you've completed that stretch, it's time to move on though your body. If you reach up over hand, hold the club and just reach over to one side. What Caroline's doing here, she is pulling with the right arm and therefore getting a tremendous stretch to the left side of her body. Make sure you're getting a good stretch in the left triceps, latissimus dorsi or back even in the obliques and on down through the hips. Everything is stretching out here, just reach overhead, and you can determine how much of the pull you want to feel by gauging that with your right hand. Reaching up and over and doing the same thing to the opposing side, and make sure you take time to stretch both side of your body regardless of if your left hand or right hand dominate. The same thing on the right side all through the right. Make sure you hold each stretch for at least 15 seconds. That's perfect1 Now if you drop the club waist height or a little higher and just reach straight back and rotate back -- what she's working now, is her lower back, again the obliques and if she pulls with right hand just a little bit, she is going to feel the medial posterior or middle and back of her front shoulder stretching out, and very important to minimize the risk of any rotator cuff injury. Again, holding at least 15 seconds and she rotates slowly around to the other side. Perfect! Now she is pulling with her left hand. She is stretching against the torso and obliques as well as during that pull in the right shoulder this time. Very important to take your whole body in unison, just like she has. Here finger may in place on the ground, she is not rotating, because she wants to make sure she feels a good stretch in here torso area. Perfect, and bring back it back. Good. Now if you rest the head of the club down, hold the grip with an open hand and lean forward slow, keep it her a nice flat back head up, shoulders are rounded back, good, a tremendous stretch all through the hamstrings here, even to the gastrocnemius where the calf and the hamstring meet. Great stretch all the way though your hamstring into your glutes and your lower back region right here is all stretched out. She even feels in her shoulders and her latissimus dorsi again, even down through the arms. So a great total body stretch, and you'll hold it there, take your time. We'll let it stretch out. This is where most interest will take place in a golf camp, it will be your lower back and your hamstrings, and roll up slow. You don't want to jump out of any stretch, just like a rubber band you don't want to let it snap, your muscle need to slowly abandon flex. By doing these simple stretches for at least five minutes before your golf game, again, you will really tremendously decrease your risk of injury and you'll see an improvement to your game. Also, while you're playing golf, if you feel yourself getting tight, take time, step aside, stretch out. If you're going through eighteen holes, or on the back nine, you feel yourself getting little tired or fatigue, stretch those muscles out. They do continue get tighter and tighter and they can track, even when you're not playing golf, just like we are here in living room. If you're sitting on the couch, get up, grab a club, do the stretches. If it's raining, if it's too cold to go play golf, stretch out any way. You will notice a change though your golf game and will improve the entire time. On the enough, there are more injuries in lower back and rotator cuffs and shoulders among golfers and they are among the National Football League. The reason being, professional football players know the importance of stretching out and warming up prior to exercise and activity. Do the same for yourself, you'll see the difference. Thanks.