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Tips to Best Prepare For Golf Season

By: Morgan Fobbs It will be golf season very soon, and you've got to prepare now if you want to improve on last season's performance. No, I am not referring to cleaning your golf balls and favorite tees. These tips are designed to help you get your body ready for the new season.

You might thing that playing golf itself is enough to qualify for your fitness goals. Certainly there are some moderate benefits, but even more important is preparing your body for the new golf season after a winter of too much sitting around.

And for those who ride the course in a cart rather than walking, and then pack away a couple of cold drinks after the round, the fitness element can be almost non-existent. If your body is capable, I encourage you to save the money and global-warming contributing emissions from your golf cart usage, and take to the fairways by foot this year.

However, in order to get to that point, you've got to get your body ready for the physical demands ahead. The purpose is to get yourself ready for the long walks and long periods of standing around waiting while golfing. You will gently build strength in muscles that golf requires frequently.

Therefore, you should combine aerobic and stamina-building exercises to prepare for the long walks on the course, and muscular strength and flexibility training to enhance your drives, swing accuracy, and overall strength in your mid-body region. Do you need to become a bulky body builder? Not at all. Rather, your goal is to gently strengthen those muscles that are repeatedly used in the repetitive golf moves that are mostly asymmetrical.

Lower back muscles, rotational flexibility, shoulder strength, and hip flexibility all contribute to the golfer's unique swing. You also want to avoid spasms in leg or back muscles after walking a long distance. This is especially true for those of us who are stuck in office chairs all winter long.

You can do many exercises at home, or during your lunch break at work, and for the most part, you don't need to get all sweaty doing so. When golfing, your torso rotational power depends on the muscle groups in the lower back, abdominals, thighs, buttocks, and hips, so start by doing some stretching of those areas. Then move on to strength training, still concentrating on the core areas--your power zone.

The core is the area between the knees and chest made up of all the bones, ligaments, and muscles within. There are countless exercises to help you work your core, including hamstring stretches, lower back stretches such as imitating a "cat" doing arches and hunches, gentle torso twists, side rotations with resistance, crunches, and gentle trunk rotations.

If you are like me and tend to spend the winters being sedentary, make sure you begin gently. The risk is that you will overdo things at the beginning, and injure some of your core areas, causing you to push back that first tee-off date. Begin each session by warming up for a short while using some aerobic option such as walking on an incline on a treadmill, a stationary bike, or a rowing machine.

The key is to start early in the spring. I will provide some specific exercises in my next article, but don't delay starting until a few days before your first tee-off! Try some of these things in an easy, short, daily effort, long before the first game of the year, and your torso strength and stamina will be much enhanced. Your body will thank you right up until the final hole of the round.

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