Yes....some golf
"machine" are more than one thousand dollars just for the stretching
and strength building, actually it is definitely not need.
If you want to complete your golf swing, it is with your whole body
space to balance the dynamic movement. So you can use any kind of
training or golf fitness equipment should be able to reach this.
I've designed all my programs, dvds and books to utilize the below
equipment for one reason. Convenience. Which will save you
time to do what you really want to do. Play golf!
For starters, a pair of hand weights (dumbbells) are inexpensive,
portable and can be used for dozens of golf-specific exercises. They
don’t have to be heavy or cumbersome. You’d be surprised what a 5 to 8
pound pair of dumbbells can accomplish with the right golf exercises.
Next on the list of golf fitness equipment is tubing. You may have seen
it in articles, on the television or in a catalog. Exercise tubing is
extremely portable, very inexpensive and also can be used to mimic many
phases of the golf swing, but with resistance.
I personally use exercise tubing in all of my programs, with all of my
personal clients and in my own golf workouts. It can give you one heck
of a workout if you have the right resistance. These bands come in
varying tensions from light to extra heavy.
Another piece of golf fitness equipment is a stability ball. It’s the
big ‘beach ball’ looking thing that is used in offices to sit on, in
many exercise classes, at most health clubs and all of the physical
therapy clinics.
Why? Because again it’s portable, inexpensive and very versatile. Doing
golf exercises on the ball incorporate core stabilization, balance and
stability. All important factors in a mechanically sound golf swing.
And the last piece of golf fitness equipment is a weighted medicine
ball is the . You might remember them from several decades ago as the
big leather balls that the old fitness fanatics used to improve
strength and power.
Well now they’re back! They are used in every sport-specific strength
program in existence. You can do so many sport-like movements with them
and they weigh as much as 20 pounds, so you can imagine the benefit
from a power standpoint.
I have a couple of my ‘bread-and-butter’ exercises I use in all my
programs that incorporate the weighted medicine ball and they are very
effective.
So there you have it! Three or four pieces of inexpensive and portable
golf fitness equipment.
