You can swing the golf club faster, but here's how to not get hurt doing it
One of the best fitness trainers in America will give your drives a real power boost
If you know a golfer who isn't interested in hitting the ball farther, you might want to gather some friends and family for an intervention. Something's not right.
For the 99.9 percent of us who do want to crank more drives, improving technique will obviously do wonders, but so will a different approach to your workouts. Andrea Doddato, one of Golf Digest's Best Fitness Trainers in America, broke down the elements for us in her must-watch video series "Power Golf Workouts". Among the topics she delves into as it relates to swinging with more power is hand and arm strength, unbalanced training and speed work.
But before you get into those aspects of building power in your game, you first have to protect the joints that are really involved in an effective swing. You can get a taste of her work in the video series with a sampling of exercises in the videos below that help improve stability and protect the joints.
"Whenever you're building something to last, you first have to make sure the foundation supports it," says Doddato, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer. "In terms of improving power in your swing, you can't skip the initial step of reinforcing your structure to withstand the rigors of hitting the ball harder. If you ignore this aspect of building power, don't be surprised if your body breaks down and you end up getting hurt."
Doddato offers several ways to help protect your body including these three simple exercises that help improve mobility and stability in the shoulders and shoulder blades, the core muscles and the hips. These are great exercises that require no equipment and can even be done as a warm-up. These clips are taken directly from her "Power Golf Workouts" series.
