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Increase Mobility in Your Upper Body
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
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Ab Workout
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
Three Part Ab Workout
This is a way to strengthen your abs and work all the muscles in those hard to work lower abs and obliques. The exercises can be done with a medicine ball that best suits your strength. If this is too much weight, try doing the exercise without weight at all and go through the motions of it.
Exercise 1: Lay straight on your back with your arms above your head holding the medicine ball and your legs straight. Keeps …
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How the Lower Body Affects Your Golf Swing
by Teaching Professional, Jonathan Dudley
Use your lower body to build stability, consistency and power in your swing.
You consistency is determined heavily by you lower body support.
In order to accomplish this it is important to do the following:
Have good mobility and flexibility in your hips
Have an awareness of being balance throughout your golf swing
Have great core and glute strength
A great golf swing allows a golfer to stretch musles and build power in their backswing and then swing the club freely and uninhibited in …
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Get Torque in Your Golf Swing – Fitness Tip
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
This exercise is a great way to create more mobility in the Thoracic Spine. In the alternate pattern of stability and mobility in the golf swing the Thoracic region is a key part of mobility and the Scapula region supports with stability. The Thoracic Spine and the Scapulas can reverse their roles in the golf swing because of a lack of mobility and can cause serious inconsistencies.
This exercise is in three parts. All three start on your …
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Using Your Core to Improve Your Golf Swing
by Teaching Professional, Jonathan Dudley
Hit it Longer with a better Bigger Turn!
This video shows some great keys for golfers to learn a “HUGE KEY” to creating great shoulder turn in the swing and keep that power created in their downswing. I know that many golfers will benefit from knowledge and if you focus on these two excercises you will find it easier to accomplish these great keys.
A Great Swing Includes
Turn with the torso as well as the shoulders and …
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Are you “Master’s” Ready?
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
Are you “ Master’s” Ready ?
I don’t know about you but when they start advertising for the Masters Golf Tournament, I get a little excited. To me, the Masters is the official start of the golf season and it’s my Christmas time. I see visions of Club championships, local member guests, CGA events, area Pro Am’s dancing in my head. The scenes of the perfectly manicured Augusta National Golf Club, the music CBS plays only for the tournament, and of …
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Box Step Ups – Strengthen Your Glutes
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
This exercise is a great way to create more hip turn in the golf swing. The equipment needed is a step stool, free weight or medicine ball. Choose the weight based on your physical abilities. Holding onto a free weight or medicine ball for resistance, place your left leg up on a step stool. Without rotating your trunk or upper body, stand up with your left leg and rotate your hips around your …
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Are your workouts productive in your pursuit of becoming a better golfer?
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
The question presented in the title is one you have to ask yourself. A lot of you have gym memberships. When you go to the gym for a work out, what are you working on? Do you have a specific fitness plan? Do you keep track of your progress?
I work with a lot of athletes throughout the year and spend a great deal of time researching physical fitness. …
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Using your body correctly in the golf swing
by Jonathan Dudley
Session 1: Hands, Arms , and Shoulders
Hands
The grip is a very important part of the golf swing that controls the clubface and a golfers ability to develop speed through the hitting area.
Grip Keys
Your grip should be light enough to “waggle ” the club ( If not you have too much tension in your grip)
The heal pad of your left hand (vice versa if you are right handed) should support the club at the top of your golf swing
The thumbs …
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Hip Stretch Routine
by Ted Bonham, Titleist Performance Institute Certified Director of Fitness
Many of us have jobs that require a lot of sitting during the day whether its in an office, driving a vehicle or traveling on an airplane, train or bus. This can effect the mobility of our hips, legs, lower back and core.
I have a great two part stretching exercise that will help in keeping the hip flexors, hamstrings, back and core in shape.
To start the stretch, lie down on your back, knees bent, feet flat on the floor. …
