Your Golf Body Might Not Be Up To The Golf You Want To Play

Your golf body is the key to your golf swing and golf game. Most golfers have never considered that their body is working against them and letting them down on the golf course.

Golf is as athletic a sport as football, soccer, baseball or hockey. Think for a moment that you are engaged in forty or more high impact explosive shots on a golf course over four to five hours in all sorts of weather conditions. In weight lifting the same level of exertion in as little as four lifts can create total exhaustion.

Add to that you typically walk up to eight miles on an 18 hole golf course. Some people more than others if you are hitting all over the place. The more frustration and other emotions you experience the more energy you use.

Want to add some more stress to your body? You are not properly hydrated that is not drinking enough water before, during and after a round.

Most golfers rush to the golf course have a quick practice and then rush onto the first-tee and straight into their golf game without any warm up. Muscles are tight and your joints are tight too. You may even have back pain, lack muscle flexibility and anything from mild to severe joint restrictions.

It could be in your hips, lower back, shoulders, wrists, elbows, ankles, or hamstrings.

More than half of all golfers suffer from back pain at any time. That means they cannot complete a full and proper golf swing. As they fatigue due to injury during a round this golfers consistency fades too. Even worse is they may continually adjust their swing to accommodate their bodies weakness.

A consistent and reliable golf swing is impossible. You cannot produce a repeatable golf swing.

In fact you may cause yourself injury because you have poor physical conditioning to play golf.

Several steps are required to build and then maintain physical conditioning. Firstly, full assessment of your body and physiology, as well as looking at your address posture and your posture through your full swing.

This will determine what is needed to build balance and stability. This is required before you can even consider building strength and power to hit long and straight. Your current conditioning and restrictions may even be creating your hitting slices, hooks, hitting thin, fat or duffing the ball.

If you want to build a strong game, a solid, reliable and repeatable swing where you hit true to your line and be square at impact your body needs to be able to move that way. Your body is rotating in manner that uses virtually every muscle and joint in the body. Any restrictions means you cannot rotate properly to complete your swing or maintain timing, tempo, rhythm or your swing plane.

So check your body out. Look at your conditioning as an essential part of your golf game. It is as important as building your swing sequence, routines, and having the right golf clubs fitted to you. And, let’s not forget building a sound mental game as well. Your mind, body and swing work as an integrated whole.

Roderick Fraser is a behavioural modeller and golfer who has modelled strategies of golfing excellence for the mind, body and swing. For more great information on getting your golf body right, visit http://www.golfing-excellence.com.