This exercise will help you increase mobility and flexibility in your shoulders to take them through full range.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor and your lower back flat.
Extend your arms over your head, keeping your shoulders away from your ears.
Touch your thum...

If your tendency to release the club early, then you will love power and consistency. Maintaining the angle that is formed between the wrists and club comes from a combination of upper body strength and lower body stability. If you lack upper body strength and have limited hip mobility then you w...

This stretch is a modified Pilates exercise. I have taken simple stretches and combined them with Pilates' breathing to target muscles used in the golf swing. Although Pilates have been in the mainstream of general fitness for a few years now, golfers are just starting to consider this discipline...

If you are looking for more power in your swing, then you want to increase the separation between your upper and lower body. Your ability to wind your upper body over the resistance of your lower body helps create a rubber band effect that creates speed on the downswing. This exercise will not o...

People who have tight hamstring muscles tend to stand up through impact, losing speed and power in their golf swing. This stretch is good for people who tend to sit most of the day and have tight hamstring muscles.

Lie on your back with both legs extended on the floor.
Lift one leg straight as ...

If your hips are tight and inflexible, then it will be difficult to make a correct weight shift and rotation. This exercise may be easy for some people, but for those who lack rotation in their hips will find it difficult and they need to work on getting more flexible in this area for a better w...

I’m always looking for new ways to, not only help myself, but also to help my students increase strength, mobility and flexibility. I’ve recently discover that using a Pilates reformer is a more effective way of increasing flexibility, strength and stability for golf than traditional, free weight...

If your hamstring muscles tend to be tight, it will be difficult to assume good golf posture. You may end up rounding your back and tucking your pelvis in with too much knee flex, as you address the ball, instead of bending from your hip sockets and keeping spine straight. Rounding of the back ...

This exercise will help you improve your flexibility to increase your range of motion to make a better swing. Try this flexibility exercise that targets arms, shoulders, obliques and core muscles.

If you have limited side bend, then you will also be limited in your spinal rotation because one mo...

Creating mobility in the hips will help you turn more efficiently and generate more power. Try this hip mobility exercise can be done as a warm up before play or practice. This may seem like simple exercise but it will help you increase the range of motion in your hips, challenge your balance a...

Bicycle Arms

If you work at a desk job, most likely your shoulders will be tight from the hours of sitting at a desk over a computer. When your shoulders are tight, then you cannot make a full shoulder turn and this may lead to swing faults. Bicycle arms is an excellent exercise that will not on...

If your hamstring muscles tend to be tight, it will be difficult to assume good golf posture. You may end up rounding your back and tucking your pelvis in with too much knee flex, as you address the ball, instead of bending from your hip sockets and keeping spine straight. Rounding of the back ...

Sit on the floor with you legs stretched out.
Lift one leg and cradle your calf towards your torso to feel a stretch in your hip and low back.
Hold the position for 8 to 10 counts and repeat on opposite leg.

To create your maximum clubhead speed from your golf swing, you want all your muscles to move through their full range of motion. Your shoulders, especially, should move freely throughout the swing. This exercise will help stretch your shoulders.

Get down on floor on all fours.
Stretch one ar...

Benefits of the lunge exercise include developing strength and firmness in your lower body. The twisting part of the exercise teaches you to rotate over the resistance of your lower body just like what you need to do in the golf swing.

In Cardiogolf, we do a variety of lunges in different plane...

This exercise will help you increase flexibility in the low back and hips for a better range of motion so that you can complete your follow-through.

Stand in a shoulder width stance.
Place your palms on your low back with your fingers pointing to the ground.
Simply press your hip forward to feel...

It is important to be able to take all your muscles and joints through their full range of motion for a fluid golf swing. This stretch targets the inner thighs.

Sit on the floor with the bottom of your feet touching.
Sitting tall, let gravity drop your knees to the ground to feel a stretch in y...

When you set up to hit a shot, you want to hinge from your hip sockets and not from your waist. This simple exercise will help assure you are keeping your spine straight.

Hold a golf club along your spine and get into your golf posture.
Bending from your hip sockets and keeping your spine strai...

If your tendency is to come over the top, then your arms may be moving with your torso on the downswing causing the club to cut across the ball. The result is a weak slice or a pulled shot that is difficult to control.

You need to learn to move your shoulder independently from your body. Often t...

A rounded upper back is often caused by spending long periods of time hunched over a desk or steering wheel. Caused by overly tight chest muscles and weak mid- and upper-back muscles, this can lead to upper-back and neck pain, and poor posture in your golf swing. Strengthening the muscles that r...

If you have been playing and practicing a lot lately, then your shoulder, abdominal and low back muscles may may be tight. This stretch will open up your back and stretch your abdominals to counteract the hunched over position from swinging a golf club.

Sit on a ball and slowly roll down to dr...

Your ability to rotate your shoulders, torso and hips around your spine determines how much clubhead speed you create in your golf swing. Spinal mobility decreases with age. Lack of spinal mobility is associated with poor posture and restricts your shoulder and torso turn in the golf swing.

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Do this exercise to increase mobility in your shoulders.

This Golf Club Shoulder Stretch will help you increase your mobility.