Using Your Bodyweight Workouts

Body weight exercises are among the first every golfer should master prior to moving on to more complex exercises. It is very common in the golf fitness business to see golfers attempting to lift relatively heavy loads without properly stabilizing their bodies and potentially exposing themselves to injury. Some of the strongest athletes come from gymnastics and various martial arts where the body is taught great levels of control and mastery. Whether you are a junior, senior or advanced lifter, be sure you can master your own body weight and progress through many of these exercises before worrying about what else you can lift.

Full Gym Workouts

How you structure your golf fitness program is essential to your overall performance on and off the course! Variety is key when it comes to offering new challenges to your body and creating an opportunity for ‘progressive overload’ to your muscles so they can respond with growth and development as well as responses to different stimuli.

Traditional gym machines are a thing of the past. There continues to be lots of ways to create a functional strength setting and virtually no limits on equipment, except your creativity and own imagination when structuring programs. A gym setting is where you will find the greatest variety of equipment using many of our favorites including cable machines, fitness balls, medicine balls, barbells, balance disks, traditional dumbbells and don’t forget about the power of using your own bodyweight.

Kettlebell Workouts

Kettlebell training may be new to golf, but trainers and athletes have been using this style of training to produce champions across a wide variety of sports. While this method of training is highly effective, until recently the prices of kettlebells remained expensive for many athletes to afford. Thanks to customer demand and more competition in the market, golfers can now find kettlebells at their local sports store like Sports Authority, Joe’s, Big 5 and many others. Now, golfers get all the benefits this style of training has to offer including building core strength, flexibility, learning how to stabilize your body while producing movement, whole body strength and power.

Medicine Ball Workouts

Medicine balls are a great way to add extra resistance to a workout and still keep things simple. Just as we’ve made the transition away from traditional gym and Nautilus style equipment, medicine balls allow the body to move through multiple planes of motion using resistance. Medicine balls are relatively easy to travel with and can easily be stored at home for those that want to keep their workouts simple, but effective.

Fitness Band Workouts

Fitness bands are among the easiest to place in a home gym because they are light, easy to travel with and can offer a wide variety of strength training options. Every serious golfer should have a set of fitness bands with them on the road for competition or just to stay fit when they travel. Fitness bands can be a vital part of a warm up routine for golf as well as a full exercise routine.