Senior golf improve your golf swing

You may be considering a gym would be best to suit your needs. Don’t! You can create your own golf fitness gym right in the comfort of your own home. To create your own home gym all you need is a stability ball, hand weights, and some exercise tubing. Viola! You have your own home gym with only a small amount of equipment and a minimal amount of money spent. You will not only save money, but driving time as well.

Now you are ready to put your new home gym to good use. You may need to find some of those books and videos to help you decide on the correct exercises you need to achieve the results you want. If you feel more comfortable in asking questions, you may want to talk to a trainer to get an exercise routine for you to follow. He or she may have some helpful tips on some dos and don’ts.

Taking action now is important. Because your mind and body are linked together, you need to envision the kind of golfer you can be and want to be. You have to want it bad enough to begin working on it RIGHT NOW! It is not as hard as you might think. You will need to do is a few of the exercises focusing on strength and stretching a couple of times a week. There is no need to go to the gym because you can do these exercises at home. It will make all the difference in your performance on the golf course and in how you feel.

There is a simple stretching exercise you can do at home. It is called Lying Leg Crossover

Lie on your back with legs out straight

Raise one leg and bend it at the knee to 90 degrees in knee and hip

Cross that leg over extended leg, while opposite shoulder stays on the ground

Go until slight pull in butt and lower back

Hold and repeat once more

Switch legs and do the exact same procedure with the opposite leg.

That exercise was pretty simple. As a senior golfer, you will notice your range of flexibility is not as it once was. All you will need to do to correct your flexibility is to perform the exercise as directed above and incorporate other exercises with the same agenda.

You may have noticed when teeing off, your ball is not reaching the distances it should. The loss of yards is not good for your game and could make you the butt of jokes for the rest of the game. The cause of this could be the shortening of your back swing. If your flexibility is limited, it will have a direct effect on your back swing. Not to mention the soreness in the back, which will accompany the loss of flexibility. The exercises for flexibility will correct the shortening of your back swing. It may even help eliminate some of the aches and pains you are experiencing.

Even though golf does not require strenuous activity, it is a good idea to stretch before you play. Warming up will cut down on the injuries, which can occur. Golf places such a huge amount of stress on a body; injuries are not as uncommon as you might think. By doing these exercises a few days a week and then right before you tee off, you are saving yourself from a painful injury as well as improving your game.