Improve Core Strength and Flexibility with Olympic Gold Medalist Dan Jansen

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10-minute Core and Stretch Workout by Dan Jansen

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Core muscles, which include the abdominal and back muscles, are essential to the golf swing to create power.  Studies show that there is a direct relationship between core strength and flexibility and balance.  The better your core strength and flexibility the better balance you will have. The better your balance, the more clubhead speed you can create.

Performing core and flexibility exercises like the ones in this workout on a regular basis can help strengthen muscles to improve golf swing and prevent injury.

Core and Stretch Workout By Dan Jansen

Equipment: CardioGolf Slope and GolfGym Balance  and Medicine Ball

1. Big Circles
2. Balance Ball Plank Hold on Balance Ball
3. Balance Ball Plank Hold on Balance Ball
4. Balance Ball Plank Circles on Balance Ball
5. Plank on Slope with Arms Straight
6. Planks on Slope Leaning on Forearms
7. Side Planks on Slope
8. Side Planks with Arm LIft
9. Side Planks with Leg Lift
10. Sidel Flexion on Up and Down Slope with Medicine Ball
11. Sidel Flexion Overhead Reach on Up and Down Slope with Medicine Ball

Repeat circuit three times.

Olympic Gold Medalist and 8-time world record holder in speed skating Dan Jansen will show you how he work outs to stay fit for life.

In this, ‘at-home’ workout, Olympic Gold Medalist speed skater Dan Jansen, uses an exercise ball made by GolfGym.com to demonstrate core and balance exercises.

“Firstly, this workout will help you enhance your core strength, as well as your balance. Secondly, these exercises will boost your proprioception which connects the body motion you are doing with the brain,” says 8-time World Record Holder speed Skater Dan Jansen. ‘These exercises will not only help improve your balance and core strength but also train your ‘sixth sense’, which is your body awareness for where you are in space.”

Translation-your will have better balance, increase your reaction time and be able to move more freely and smoothy.

“I recommend doing exercises on a balance ball (Swiss ball/fit ball) because the instability of the ball is more challenging to your core and balance than just doing the exercises on a flat surface,” says Jansen.