Golf tips: The truth about improving your core fitness
You might have heard a ‘better core’ will improve your stability and balance, and therefore your swing. That is perfectly true.
But you might also be under the impression that the way to improve your core is sit-ups. You’re wrong – they won’t.
Well, let’s qualify that; they will help, but they are not the best way to improve this aspect of your fitness for golf.
Here, I’ll show you some exercises which will make you much fitter for golf, which will allow you to swing the club more like the way your local PGA pro would like you to.
What’s more, you can make these improvements in your living room while watching the golf on a Sunday night!
THE START POSITION
Get on the floor and place your arms shoulder width apart, palms facing forwards. Have your weight evenly distributed between your palms and your toes. It’s a bit like a press-up position, and even merely getting into this position – which is only the starting point – is already starting to fire your core.
FIRING UP THE ENGINE
Now we get really going – this exercise really fires your core. Raise your right hand and left foot off the ground… and hold for 20 seconds. If you can hold for 30 seconds, do so. If you can’t make that your target to reach at some point down the line. Repeat for the left side, and do three sets of these.
Kati Crossfield is a personal trainer based at David Lloyd gym in Leeds. She can be contacted on 07786 557822 or by visiting davidlloyd.co.uk
