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Golf
Fitness Equipment For Your In-Home
Program
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by: Mike
Pedersen
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Golf
fitness equipment can be a variety of
pieces; but what truly is golf fitness
equipment?
You’d be surprised to find out it is
not expensive; and is not necessarily
in a gym or health club either.
Yes…there are golf “machines”
for stretching and strength building
that are well over one thousand
dollars, but are definitely not
needed.
When you think of the golf swing,
it’s a dynamic movement completed in
space with your ‘whole’ body. So
any kind of training or golf fitness
equipment should be able to
accommodate this.
I've designed all my programs, dvds
and books to utilize the below
equipment for one reason. Convenience.
Which will save you time to do what
you really want to do. Play golf!
For starters, a pair of hand weights
(dumbbells) are inexpensive, portable
and can be used for dozens of
golf-specific exercises. They don’t
have to be heavy or cumbersome.
You’d be surprised what a 5 to 8
pound pair of dumbbells can accomplish
with the right golf exercises.
Next on the list of golf fitness
equipment is tubing. You may have seen
it in articles, on the television or
in a catalog. Exercise tubing is
extremely portable, very inexpensive
and also can be used to mimic many
phases of the golf swing, but with
resistance.
I personally use exercise tubing in
all of my programs, with all of my
personal clients and in my own golf
workouts. It can give you one heck of
a workout if you have the right
resistance. These bands come in
varying tensions from light to extra
heavy.
Another piece of golf fitness
equipment is a stability ball. It’s
the big ‘beach ball’ looking thing
that is used in offices to sit on, in
many exercise classes, at most health
clubs and all of the physical therapy
clinics.
Why? Because again it’s portable,
inexpensive and very versatile. Doing
golf exercises on the ball incorporate
core stabilization, balance and
stability. All important factors in a
mechanically sound golf swing.
And the last piece of golf fitness
equipment is a weighted medicine ball
is the . You might remember them from
several decades ago as the big leather
balls that the old fitness fanatics
used to improve strength and power.
Well now they’re back! They are used
in every sport-specific strength
program in existence. You can do so
many sport-like movements with them
and they weigh as much as 20 pounds,
so you can imagine the benefit from a
power standpoint.
I have a couple of my
‘bread-and-butter’ exercises I use
in all my programs that incorporate
the weighted medicine ball and they
are very effective.
So there you have it! Three or four
pieces of inexpensive and portable
golf fitness equipment.
About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one
of the top golf performance swing
trainers in the country. Golf
Magazine's expert at GolfOnline.com,
author and founder of several
cutting-edge online golf performance
sites. Take a look at his just
released golf performance dvds and
manual at his golf
swing tips site - Perform Better
Golf.
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