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Golf Flexibility Exercises

Importance of Flexibility Exercises and Stretching

Golf flexibility exercises are an essential part of conditioning the body during warm up for practice or playing a round. Flexibility exercises will have both a short term and long term impact on your game. In golf constant training is a pre-condition to an improvement in performance.

Your flexibility is very important to game development. Stretching in an organized, sequential manner will significantly improve muscle, tendons, ligaments, joint movement and durability. The adoption and proper execution of a stretching regimen will lay a sound foundation to support physical and mental conditioning.

Stretching

Never start practicing or playing without warming up with a good set of stretching exercises. Never. Your tendons and muscles have a tendency to retract when idle. They have a natural tendency to be stiff or resistant to initial exercise until they are "loosened up". Walk straight into a sport without warming up and you are asking for trouble. The older you get, the more you need to warm up. Injuries can result if you ignore this advice.A list of good stretching exercises for golfers is listed below. Remember, it is a good idea to stretch for 10-15 minutes as a warm up to practice or playing a round. You should stretch as part of your normal fitness routine for 20 - 30 minutes, 3 times a week. Always try to breathe normally and regularly throughout the exercise. Go easy at first and build to a regular exercise rate to avoid muscle strain.

Upper Body

  • Stretching the Neck MusclesStand straight. Tilt the head slightly to the right side and hold.

  • Stretching the Neck, Shoulders and Upper Arms
  • Stretching the Chest Muscles
  • Stretching the Chest and Upper Arm Muscles
  • Stretching the Forearm
  • Stretching the Stomach and Back
  • Stretching the Torso

Lower Back

  • Stomach and Back Stretch
  • Lower Back and Glutes Stretch

Legs

  • Thigh Stretch
  • Hip Joint
  • Outer Hip and Thigh
  • Quad Stretch
  • Inner Thigh Stretch
  • Calves


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