Improve Your Golf Swing With Strengthening Exercises – Longer Distances and Greater Speed

Improve your golf swing with strengthening exercises and you will also improve the speed of the ball and the distance. Power has to be behind your stroke.

You can attend a gym, but it is recommended that you can also use dumb bells or free weights. The thinking behind this is to have the body do the work, not the machines.

Choose the weight load that you would be comfortable using. Add the desired weight load to each hand. Build strength, not bulk.

Consider the numerous ways that your arms move. Because of the different arm positioning, it is best that as a cautionary measure to begin with light weights in each hand. Increase weights when you feel it can be managed safely. Plan and schedule your own repetition program.

1. Press arms above your head – perform up and down movements bending elbows outward to the sides.

2. Press arms above your head – perform slowly up and down movement bending elbows in front of chest.

3. Start with arms above your head, opening arms wide to the side, return to head position and repeat.

4. Start with arms above your head; sway both arms from side to side cautiously.

5. Start with arms at chest level and do full extension forward of chest bending elbows in and out at chest level.

6. Repeat the above exercises using one arm at a time.

7. The above exercises can also be done lying on your back, or lying on either side of your body doing one arm at a time.

8. Bend both wrists upward towards the inside forearm at the same time, then one at a time.

9. Contract your lower abdomen and bend slightly forward at the waist line keeping your chest raised. The chest is raised to eliminate your spine curing downward. Initiate movements 10 and 11.

10. Open your arms in and out from side to side.

11. With arms at your sides; bend your arms forward and backward as though you are on a swing.

The above exercises are focusing on upper body and arm strength to help you have the power to hit the golf ball for greater speed and distances. There are other exercises to strengthen the lower body and overall body strength. It would be to your advantage to do these exercises also.

The perfect golf swing is when you hit the golf club square in the exact correct spot on impact with the correct amount of speed and send the golf ball flying straight to the designated hole. And to do this you will need muscular and skeletal strength, correct body alignment, and flexibility from your shoulders to the bottom of your feet.