The Golf Exercise You Need Right Now
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Do you notice the resemblance here?
As golf courses have been open a while, many of you are taking advantage of having more time to play than usual.
However, as many courses still don’t have caddies, golfers are finding themselves carrying their bags more often-which in itself is a unique fitness challenge if you aren’t used to walking around with an awkward load.
Because everyone knows the fatigue that sets in around the 12th hole, but it is a whole other level if you are not conditioned to withstand the constant adaptations of carrying your bag over ever changing terrain.
Whenever carrying an offset load, a golfer’s trunk muscles contract intensely to maintain postural control.
This is where loaded carries for TIME come in, instead of trying to carry the heaviest weight possible for.a short distance, we go a little lighter for time which provides us postural endurance, so we can mitigate any neck/back/hip pain carrying the golf bag
What muscles do this?
What everyone refers to as “the core”. All the muscles that support the spine & pelvis. Golfers love the core.
Carries can really FIRE up the core. Being strong there allows you to transfer power effectively from the legs to the hips to the club.
• Own the start position
• Maintain full body tension throughout the entire duration of the carry.
• Keep shoulders, ribs, and hips stacked over each other
We are not focused on just strength here but strength-endurance so go with a moderate load that you can maintain proper form & tension with for a 45-75s period 2-4x a week using different variations ?