Golf Flexibility ExercisesImportance of Flexibility Exercises and StretchingGolf 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. 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. How much should you stretch? Good question! As Tiger Woods says: "Ideally, you should stretch until you break a sweat, so you go to the course warm. Without a doubt, it helps performance and nerves on the first tee."[from TW's website web.tigerwoods.com]
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