The benefits of strength training for golf!

Golf always appear deceptively easy to first-timers. All you have to do is swing a golf club and hit the ball hard, don’t you? Wrong. Golf is both a mental and physical game – and it’s something you have to work hard at. While people might easily comprehend the need for mental toughness in golf, they usually find the need for strength training in golf dubious.

But it is needed, and I’ll let you know why by enlisting the benefits one can derive from it:

Making the Ball Go the Distance

If it’s your first attempt to hit the ball, the basic objective is just to get the ball as near as possible to the hole. That, however, would require a powerful drive in order for the ball to travel hundreds of feet across the air. Without proper strength training, that powerful drive will be impossible for you to achieve.

For a powerful drive, you’ll need to be able to make your shoulders perform a full turn, without rotating your hips too much. Such body movements require not only flexibility, increased coordination, but strength. Your muscles must be used to performing such actions that doing them frequently will not cause pain. Do you think you have that kind of ability already? If not, then you need strength training.

Looking Good in the Inside

Outside, it’s your skin, your facial structure, and your body that constitute your physical appearance. While looking good on the outside will certainly make you more attractive to the opposite sex, it won’t have any effect at all on improving the look of your game or the outcome of the match. To win, you need to look good on the inside – and you have to start with your bones.

Strength training will ensure that your bones are strong and healthy. Besides preventing you from suffering from osteoporosis and other diseases related to calcium deficiency, it will also ensure that you’ve got an excellent musculoskeletal system. Although this part of the body isn’t as common as the digestive, cardiovascular, or respiratory system, the musculoskeletal system is still something you should give importance to. It will ensure that you can lift things twice as heavy, move twice as fast, and enjoy your game twice as much.

No More Tension Please

There are two kinds of tension that you’ll experience when playing golf: emotional tension and muscle tension. Emotional tension requires emotional exercises in order to be vanquished. You need to employ breathing and relaxation techniques to get rid of pressure and stress. You can do these things even while you’re playing golf.

Muscle tension, however, is more difficult to eliminate or prevent. Strength training is needed to minimize the chances of your muscles acting up at the most unfavorable of times, like when you’re just two shots away from winning the tournament. Strength training, especially when it’s focused on your shoulders, back, and wrists, will ensure that the chances of such incidents occurring will be significantly minimized.

The Intimidation Factor

Remember how we said that golf is both a mental and physical game? Well, through strength training, you’ll be able to employ an effective mental tactic to defeat the competition. Strength training – especially when done consistently and with an impressive amount of resolve and dedication – will make the person appear bigger and better. He will also look more confident and intimidating. When you have a person like that as an opponent, it doesn’t bode well for you, does it? Fortunately, if you’re the one who’s benefiting from strength training, you’ll be the one to do all the intimidating, and not the other way around!

Last as Long as the Energizer Bunny

Remember that long-lasting bunny? Its energy level never goes down. That’s what you need as well if you want to have enough energy to perform some emergency tricks during the last rounds of an 18-hole tournament. And strength training will ensure that you’ll still be feeling fresh and fit as a fiddle even while the rest of the players are drooping like wilted flowers.

Injuries Are a No-No

Lastly, just like any other athlete, golf players are susceptible to injuries, more so if they haven’t been undergoing strength training. Strength training conditions and tones your muscles while improving the flexibility of your joints. With strength training to back you up, you’re less vulnerable to getting injured, and that means more playing time on the course!

Hopefully, I’ve made you consider the matter of strength training at the very least. I hope you have fun – and win – the next time you play golf.


Make it a great day!

Chris Walker

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