Do Strengthening Exercises to Improve Your Golf Swing

When you do strengthening exercises you also improve the ball speed and the distance, and power is behind your hit.

It is suggested that you go to the gym and use dumb bells or free weights. But the point is that do the work but not the machines.

Choose the comfortable weight load to use and add the desired load to each hand so that you can build strength but not bulk. Please pay attention to the ways you move the arms. You should begin with light weight in each hand and add the weight according to your affordability because of the different arm positioning. Make a plan and schedule of repetition program for yourself.

1. Press arms above your head, moving up and down slowly with elbows bended outward to both sides.

2. Press arms above your head, moving up and down slowly with elbows bended in front of your chest.

3. Start with arms above your head and open them from side to side, then back to original position and do that again.

4. Start with arms above your head, and then sway them carefully from side to side.

5. Start with arms at chest position and extends forward of chest with elbows bended in and out at the chest position.

6. Redo these exercises by one arm at a time.

7. You can also do these exercises lying on your back or on either side of your body by one arm at a time.

8. Bend both wrists upwards the inside forearm and them one at a time.

9. Tighten the lower abdomen and bend forward slightly at the waist line with the chest raised. The raised chest is to prevent from the downward curvature of the spine. Take care of these movements.

10. Open your arms in and out from one side to the other.

11. Put your arms at your sides and bend them forward and backward like you are swinging the golf club.

These exercises can help improving your upper body and arm strength to hit the ball for greater speed and further distance. While for strengthening the lower and even the whole body, there are other exercises which are helpful for you.