Since Tiger Woods has taken over the PGA Tour, everyone is looking for golf-specific workouts and exercises. A golf training club, also known as a golf practice club, is a useful piece of golf fitness equipment to any golfer. Here are seven ways that a weighted golf training club or a golf practice club can help your golf game:
1. A golf training club allows you to work out and strengthen the exact muscles that you use in the golf swing during your workout program. All of the top fitness trainers attempt to build strength in their athletes replicating the motion that they will be using in their sport. Most of the time they have to use free weights and can only come close to resembling the actual movement.
2. Since you cannot really get any more golf specific than using a weighted practice club in your work outs, it is one of the most effective ways to increase your club head speed. Obviously, club head speed has a direct impact on how far that you can hit the ball as well.
3. Although the golf training club may only be a couple of extra pounds, the more times that you swing it, you will see a big difference as the extra weight and will help you increase your flexibility The extra weight will make it difficult to stop at the top of your back swing stretching you farther and increasing your flexibility.
4. The same theory holds true on the forward swing as well. A weighted golf practice club will turn you through to a better finish position facing your target.
5. Another benefit of a heavy golf practice club is the extra weight will force you to use more of your core muscles. You will do this not only to swing the club around you but also to keep your balance during the swing. Balance is a very important part of the golf swing that is often overlooked by many golfers and even instructors.
6. It is important that you use a golf training club that is weighted proportionately to a real golf club. Just throwing a weight at the end of a golf club is just not the same. As all of the weight is at the far end of the golf club and it feels nothing like what you really swing.
7. It is also important to remember to swing the golf practice club both right handed and left handed. If not, you will not be giving equal work to both sides of your body and with one side stronger or weaker than another, an injury may occur.
A golf practice club will not work every part of your body. You will need to do other exercises for your hamstrings for example. However, a golf training club will give you better balance, increased flexibility and building strength as benefits of a golf practice club, you will see an increase in your driving distance that is sure to lead to shooting lower scores.
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The best golf training aids are those that help you commit the RIGHT golf swing movements to muscle memory and do not ingrain poor golf swing habits. Given golf's complexity, the more simple the golf training aid the better. The purpose of this article is not to recommend a particular golf training aid (there are way too many golf training aids to discuss and most simply do not work) but discuss the key categories of golf training aids you should consider and evaluate with help from your golf instructor.
• The Grip: a proper golf swing begins with the grip. Consider a golf training aid that helps you establish the proper grip while placing and aligning your right and left hand on the grip in the correct positions.
• Golf Swing Alignment: You can have a perfect golf swing, but will always miss your target if not aligned properly. You can always use you golf clubs as alignment aids on the practice range, but there are a host of golf training aids such as "alignment sticks" on the market that are inexpensive and can be used for other purposes from checking your swing plane to guiding your putting stroke.
• Impact: One of the best golf training aids you can invest in is what is known as an "impact bag." There are many different manufacturers of impact bags, but they all serve the same purpose – to help ingrain the proper feel and ensure proper wrist position at impact.
• Putting Alignment: A solid swing path and stroke will go a long way to reduce your putts per round. Consider the various putting alignment golf training aids on the market that help ensure proper putting setup and stroke fundamentals.
• Swing Synchronization – Ensuring that your torso, shoulders and arms move together in unison are a key aspect of a solid golf swing. There are many golf training aids on the market that can help with this, but avoid the complicated ones. Select a golf training aid the helps keep your elbows together and keeps your swing in sync through the golf swing.
• Golf Swing Fundamentals: The last category of golf training aids is not a golf training aid per se, but golf instruction that reinforces your PGA teaching pro's lessons. There are a host of "golf pocket guides" on the market that provide expert golf tips on proper golf shot setup and execution. These guides are very handy on or off the course when your golf instructor is not around. Be sure to get one that is credible, durable and easy to understand.
Along with regular practice and feedback from you teaching professional, these are really the major golf training aids you should consider to groove a solid golf swing and reinforce golf fundamentals.
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