by: Mike Pedersen
It’s Your Body That Will Improve Your Golf Game
Your body and golf go hand-in-hand. You can work on your golf swing, but if you don’t address your body’s limitations, your game will not improve. I say this very strongly!
The exact opposite will give you similar results.You can work on your body, but if you don’t work on your golf game you will not improve as much; although your body will naturally be able to make a better golf swing.
In many of the articles I write both for the web and for my golf performance sites, I mention the body as the “the golfing machine”. You may have heard this term before, but I truly feel like it is profound.
Your body dictates your golfing ability!
You can get by on natural ability, but after a while, aging sets in and you lose strength, flexibility, coordination, stability and much more. When this happens, your game starts to slip.
The only way to stop this slide is to work on your golf swing training machine. I’m definitely not saying to stop practicing. But practice alone will not get it done!
Focus on the limitations your body has and your golf game will transform. You will feel like you can make a bigger, more powerful golf swing; but with precision and accuracy. The net result is a big reduction in scores and mishit, and a huge improvement in distance and accuracy.
You are a golfing athlete and all athletes condition their body’s specific to their sport. Why wouldn’t you do the same? The more you focus on the physical demands the golf swing puts on your body, the better you’ll be able to understand the importance of golf swing training.
Are you competitive with yourself on the course? If you are, don’t you want to make a change that will quickly improve your game? If so, you’ve got to start thinking like a high-level golfing athlete. Don’t even tell any of your golfing buddies your thinking.
Just take care of business and let your golf swing do the talking for you!
You’ll soon realize it’s been your body keeping you from a much better golf game.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Golf Fitness Helps Generate More Speed in Your Golf Swing!
by: Sean Cochran
The golfing industry speaks about clubhead speed constantly. We see advertised in the golf magazines all the time. We hear about it on the Golf Channel endlessly
Clubhead speed is more a result of what you do with the golf club than an entity of its own. A driver is not going to generate clubhead speed on its’ own! Someone has to swing it!
Clubhead speed is contingent upon the perfect golf swing speed. Golf Swing speed is directly related to the person swinging the golf club. So the question to really ask is:
How Do I Develop Huge Gains in My Golf Swing Speed?
Another term directly related to the golf swing speed and clubhead speed is power.
More Power = More Swing Speed = More Clubhead Speed
Bottom line is we are looking to increasing the power outputs of your golf swing. This will allow for an increase in the golf swing speed. An increase in the golf swing speed translates to more clubhead speed.
So how do we increase the power in our golf swing?
Two aspects require tuning and development of you wish to improve the power in your golf swing.
§ Number One: Improve Your Golf Swing Mechanics
§ Number Two: Improve Your Body
Developing optimal golf swing mechanics is the first part of the equation to great power.
The golf swing is one of the most difficult, finite, and complex athletic movements performed. As a result, it requires time spent on the refinement of the movements involved.
Any athletic movement, the golf swing included, can be performed efficiently or inefficiently.
An efficient golf swing allows for the highest percentage of power generated by the golfer to be translated into the club, and delivered into the golf ball. An inefficient golf swing decreases the amount of power delivered to the golf swing.
Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics = High Power Outputs
Inefficient Golf Swing Mechanics = Low Power Outputs
A pretty simple equation if you think about it.
Now how do you develop efficient golf swing mechanics?
Through a process of proper instruction, proper practice, and time. The body can learn either the correct or incorrect way to swing a golf club. In order to learn the correct way to swing a golf club, proper golf swing instruction is required.
Secondly, the body learns through repetition. In order to learn efficient golf swing mechanics it is necessary to practice the correct way to swing. Finally, this process takes time.
The body will not learn how to swing a golf club correctly in a day. It takes consistent time spent on the golf swing.
Putting it in math terms, the equation for efficient golf swing mechanics is:
Proper Golf Instruction + Proper Practice + Time = Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics
Unfortunately, efficient golf swing mechanics is only one-half of the equation to increasing clubhead speed, golf swing speed, and power.
The second half is your body.
The golf club cannot develop power on its own. It is a combination of developing efficient golf swing mechanics and a body that can generate power.
A Body that can Generate Power = Increased Clubhead Speed
Your body swings the club through the mechanics of the golf swing. In order to perform this efficiently and powerfully requires the development of certain disciplines within your body.
Generating power in the golf swing requires your body to be:
§ Flexible
§ Strong
§ Powerful
The development of these three disciplines within your body allows the foundation to swing the golf club with more power.
If your body is inflexible, weak, and powerless, generating clubhead speed will be very difficult, let alone performing the mechanics of the golf swing correctly. How do you develop such a body for the golf swing?
Quite simply by implementing a golf fitness program. A golf fitness program or a golf swing training program will develop the required flexibility, strength, and power required of the perfect golf swing.
It comes down to this equation:
Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics + A Flexible, Strong, & Powerful Body = Increased Clubhead Speed
Put in place a plan to develop efficient golf swing mechanics and a powerful body. The golf swing speed and clubhead speed you desire can be a reality. Remember; proper golf instruction, practice, time, and golf fitness training are the keys to more power, more swing speed, and more clubhead speed.
The golfing industry speaks about clubhead speed constantly. We see advertised in the golf magazines all the time. We hear about it on the Golf Channel endlessly
Clubhead speed is more a result of what you do with the golf club than an entity of its own. A driver is not going to generate clubhead speed on its’ own! Someone has to swing it!
Clubhead speed is contingent upon the perfect golf swing speed. Golf Swing speed is directly related to the person swinging the golf club. So the question to really ask is:
How Do I Develop Huge Gains in My Golf Swing Speed?
Another term directly related to the golf swing speed and clubhead speed is power.
More Power = More Swing Speed = More Clubhead Speed
Bottom line is we are looking to increasing the power outputs of your golf swing. This will allow for an increase in the golf swing speed. An increase in the golf swing speed translates to more clubhead speed.
So how do we increase the power in our golf swing?
Two aspects require tuning and development of you wish to improve the power in your golf swing.
§ Number One: Improve Your Golf Swing Mechanics
§ Number Two: Improve Your Body
Developing optimal golf swing mechanics is the first part of the equation to great power.
The golf swing is one of the most difficult, finite, and complex athletic movements performed. As a result, it requires time spent on the refinement of the movements involved.
Any athletic movement, the golf swing included, can be performed efficiently or inefficiently.
An efficient golf swing allows for the highest percentage of power generated by the golfer to be translated into the club, and delivered into the golf ball. An inefficient golf swing decreases the amount of power delivered to the golf swing.
Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics = High Power Outputs
Inefficient Golf Swing Mechanics = Low Power Outputs
A pretty simple equation if you think about it.
Now how do you develop efficient golf swing mechanics?
Through a process of proper instruction, proper practice, and time. The body can learn either the correct or incorrect way to swing a golf club. In order to learn the correct way to swing a golf club, proper golf swing instruction is required.
Secondly, the body learns through repetition. In order to learn efficient golf swing mechanics it is necessary to practice the correct way to swing. Finally, this process takes time.
The body will not learn how to swing a golf club correctly in a day. It takes consistent time spent on the golf swing.
Putting it in math terms, the equation for efficient golf swing mechanics is:
Proper Golf Instruction + Proper Practice + Time = Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics
Unfortunately, efficient golf swing mechanics is only one-half of the equation to increasing clubhead speed, golf swing speed, and power.
The second half is your body.
The golf club cannot develop power on its own. It is a combination of developing efficient golf swing mechanics and a body that can generate power.
A Body that can Generate Power = Increased Clubhead Speed
Your body swings the club through the mechanics of the golf swing. In order to perform this efficiently and powerfully requires the development of certain disciplines within your body.
Generating power in the golf swing requires your body to be:
§ Flexible
§ Strong
§ Powerful
The development of these three disciplines within your body allows the foundation to swing the golf club with more power.
If your body is inflexible, weak, and powerless, generating clubhead speed will be very difficult, let alone performing the mechanics of the golf swing correctly. How do you develop such a body for the golf swing?
Quite simply by implementing a golf fitness program. A golf fitness program or a golf swing training program will develop the required flexibility, strength, and power required of the perfect golf swing.
It comes down to this equation:
Efficient Golf Swing Mechanics + A Flexible, Strong, & Powerful Body = Increased Clubhead Speed
Put in place a plan to develop efficient golf swing mechanics and a powerful body. The golf swing speed and clubhead speed you desire can be a reality. Remember; proper golf instruction, practice, time, and golf fitness training are the keys to more power, more swing speed, and more clubhead speed.
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