Your core is the engine of your body. All movement starts from your core. To create power and speed in your golf swing, it is important to stretch and strengthen your core muscles or trunk. Your core consists of muscles in your abdominal, back, hips and chest. A strong, flexible core allows you to turn your trunk for a complete … Read More
Grip Strength for Golf
It is important to have grip strength in order to maintain the angle of your arms and clubs or create lag on the downswing that allows you to strike down and take a divot. If you tend to top or hit thin shots, you may not be holding the “angle”. Getting stronger in your hands and wrists will help you … Read More
Focus on Lead Arm for Solid Shots
The golf swing in its most simple form is really only a circle. The radius of that circle, back and through the swing is the lead arm (left arm for a right-handed swing and right arm in a left-handed swing.) Good players create a wide arc on the backswing and maintain the radius that they created at address throughout the … Read More
How a Chair Can Help Your Golf Swing
Sitting for long periods of time has been determined to be detrimental to your health, studies show. Sitting for prolonged periods not only causes your metabolism to slow down, but also can contribute to a condition called rounded shoulders where the head and neck drop forward causing tightness in the shoulders, back and neck. The tendency of golfers with rounded … Read More
How a Dumbbell Can Help Your Golf Swing
The distance your hands start at address from your shoulders, should remain constant throughout your golf swing. If your arms bend or come closer to you during your swing, you’ll end up topping or even missing the ball. Ideally, you want your arms to extend as you strike the ball. Using a dumbbell can help you feel the extension throughout … Read More
Assisted Back Lunges for Stronger Hamstrings and Glutes
The hamstring and glute muscles are crucial to power and stability in your golf swing. Try this assisted back lunge exercise to help activate your hamstring and glute muscles. Using a club or a dowel for balance, stand in a shoulder width stance. Lift one leg up, bending from the knee and hinging from the hip. Slowly step that leg … Read More
30 Drills and Golf-Fitness Exercises to Do Before the End of Summer-No. 3 Feet Together Drill
There is still more than one month left of summer and plenty of time to play your best golf ever. If your game hasn’t improved as much as you wanted to this summer, try adding some golf-specific exercises into your daily routine to help you move better and more freely. Stay tuned for golf-fitness exercises and drills that you can … Read More
30 Drills and Golf-Fitness Exercises to Do Before the End of Summer-No. 2 Shoulder Stretch
There is still more than one month left of summer and plenty of time to play your best golf ever. If your game hasn’t improved as much as you wanted to this summer, try adding some golf-specific exercises into your daily routine to help you move better and more freely. Stay tuned for golf-fitness exercises and drills that you can … Read More
Essential Yoga for Golf Guide
Although yoga has been in the mainstream of general fitness for a few years now, golfers are just starting to consider this discipline to help improve their golf games. Many PGA Tour players such as Camilo Villegas and Vijay Singh have been practicing yoga for years now with dramatic results. Private Coaching Session with Karen. Let Karen help you with … Read More
Cardiogolf Can Boost Your Fitness
We are already into February and I know many of you are having a hard time keeping up your New Year Fitness Resolutions. If you don’t enjoy your workouts, then you are probably bored. If you are doing the same routine everyday, then maybe you should mix it up. Cardiogolf is a great way to get some well needed exercise … Read More