A Note from Karen:

Doing some flexibility exercises everyday to help you make a better turn

Many of you know that I live in a small town outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.  What you may not know is that this small town is also home to the $48 billion home improvement chain Lowe’s.

Since I am surrounded by Lowe’s executives, I get to hear a lot about how the giant chain works and operates.  Their motto is ‘Never Stop Improving’ and it should become your motto too.

No matter what your age or physical ability you have the capacity to improve your physical well-being.  You can always improve your skills and talents.  One of the goals of Lowe’s Home Improvement is to help inspire, motivate and energize their customers about taking on a home improvement challenges.

My goal is to do the same-inspire, motivate and energize my readers and students to add fitness into their daily lives to not only improve their health, but to help improve their golf games at the same time.  You know you need to exercise for better health, then why not work on your golf game at the same time? Why not kill to birds(ies) at the same time?

Visit KPJgolf.com for tips and advice on how to improve your fitness and golf game game.

One thing that will help you improve your body and golf swing is to work on your balance. In order to create clubhead speed, you need to swing the club as fast as you can while staying in balance.  If you loose your balance, you’ll destroy the sequence of motion that helps deliver the clubhead square to the ball at impact.

Consider doing some balance yoga poses on a daily basis to improve your balance and golf swing.

The Eagle pose in yoga, also known as garudasana pose, improves your balance and stretches your upper back, shoulders and outer thighs. Regularly practicing this pose will strengthen your legs, knees and ankles to improve balance.

This modified Eagle pose that I demonstrating opens the pelvic area and creates space between shoulder blades which is important in your golf swing.  As you initiate your downswing, you want to be able to separate your hips from your shoulders so the club remains on plane.  If your shoulders start down at the same pace as your hips, then the club will come over the top of the plane causing a slice or pulled shot.

Breath evenly and gaze forward as you balance using a golf club as shown.

Modified Eagle Pose for Golf

To learn how to do this exercise and other golf-specific exercises take the Cardiogolf 30-Day Challenge.