Take the time over the next couple of weeks to spring up your golf fitness program to help improve your body and swing.  Try some of these golf-specific stretches to help increase your flexibility.

Increasing your flexibility helps you create long, lean muscles and long, lean muscles work best for golf. When you elongate your muscles the more efficient your swing becomes and the lower your changes of injury are.

The most chronically tight muscles that may affect your golf swing are the muscles surrounding hips, low back, hip flexors and obliques.   If there is a lack of flexibility in the hamstrings, the tendency will be to raise up as you swing. If there is lack of rotation in either hip, the body will compensate by using more upper body in the downswing.  A weak core may  cause compensations if you cannot  rotate through the spine in any part of the swing, which can eventually cause low back pain.

Jump start your golf season by doing a few minutes of flexibility exercises.

Cardiogolf Flexibility Routine

1. Hamstring and Calf and Ankle Stretch

2. Hip and Core Rotators

3. Side Stretch for Obliques and Hips

4. Hip Flexor and Quad Stretch

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