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You’ve heard it before. You MUST have a full shoulder turn for maximum clubhead speed, power and distance. I want to briefly explain that a full shoulder turn does not mean your golf club has to get high at the top of your backswing. So many golfers are worried about getting the club shaft parallel to the ground at the top.

This is not so! It’s becoming more common to see the touring pro’s not reach parallel at the top, even with their golf driver. As long as you get a 90 degree shoulder turn with about half that in hip turn, you will have maximum clubhead speed, and better yet, more control over your golf swing.

I want to show you a drill you can do in your home, garage, office and of course on the practice tee.

See the club I have on the ground to the left of my right foot? See the club across my shoulders?. Match those up and you know you’ve made a full shoulder turn on your backswing.

Give it a try!

To achieve maximum power in your golf game, you must be able to fully hinge, unhinge and rehinge your wrists. A lot of clubhead speed comes from this wrist action, especially through impact. Hingeing (or wrist cock) your wrists, creates lag. Lag enhances power. Power means LONGER drives!

When I think of lag from the wrists, I think of Sergio Garcia. He has the most impressive, nearly impossible wrist lag (delayed wrist cock) on tour. It’s absolutely amazing to see him with his hands near impact, and his wrists still fully cocked.

One of the LONGEST hitters on the PGA Tour is JB Holmes. He is another perfect example of gaining maximum power through your wrists.

Hinging and unhinging (rehingeing) the wrists is ONE motion. This is where golfers get it wrong!

I took a quick picture(s) to show you the very SIMPLE motion of the proper wrist hinge.

I’m hinging, the second picture is unhingeing, and the third is rehingeing. That’s it!

Another common term for wrist hinge is wrist cock. Look how my wrist is bending only ONE way! This is SO important. It doesn’t break side-to-side, only up and down. Combine the turning of the shoulders, dropping of the arms, and this hinge, unhing and rehinge of the wrists at the right time, and you’ve got a TON of POWER!

Everyone wants to know what Tiger does.  What he eats.  What clubs he plays. What movies he watches.  Everything!  One mystery is what is Tigers golf workout? I can tell you it’s no mystery.  He’s not hanging upside down from a chandelier chanting golf mantras.  He is doing what many of the touring pros and all my golf students are doing.

Simple, effective golf exercises, stretches and routines.  That’s if folks! Nothing fancy…but…he does it everyday!  I mean even on a Sunday before the round of a tournament.  His workout is very important to him and he knows it is one thing that gives him the edge.

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Next time you hear the term golf workouts…don’t think gym, sweating, 2 hours, and hard! Think home, no sweat, 15 minutes and easy! How’s that sound? I’m dead serious! You will be amazed at the improvement you’ll see by just doing 15 minutes of simple, easy and “in your home” workout exercises!

With the winter here for most of the country, this is a perfect time to work on your body while you can’t golf. This is what we call “off-season” training in sports. And yes…golf is a sport, so prepare your body to perform like any other athlete would.

I don’t care if you’re a weekend warrior or a club champion. Doing simple workouts for golf can take your game quickly to another level. You may even surprise yourself…and be your clubs next champion!

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Tiger Woods golf swing should not be cracked on anymore!

He has been critized since leaving Butch Harmon and hooking up with Hank Haney, but nobody should question it now.  Can you say 2 major championships back-to-back?

I have been critical of his driver golf swing, but it held up fairly well on a very tight golf course.

His swing is looking back on track and watch out!  With Tigers golf workout and golf swing he is crushing everyone all over again.  Phil who???

My prediction came true! Tiger crushed the field! I have a sick sense this so-called slump he was in, while working on his new golf swing with Hank Haney is OVER! Two majors in a row! The players just wilted around him like they did when he first came on tour.

This rivalry between Tiger and Phil was pretty much decided going into the weekend…let alone on Sunday afternoon.

Interesting statistics. Second in driving distance for the week (remember he hit a ton of 3 woods and irons off the tee this week); Number One in greens in regulation; and his putting was pretty dang good.

I was impressed with his pure strength on some of the shots out of that deep rough. He is the ONLY one strong enough to do what he did out of that rough. Tigers golf workouts really payoff don’t they?

The greens in regulation is because of his distance off the tee and having such short irons in on all par 4’s and reaching LONG par 5’s in two.

Great job Tiger!

Everybody wants to know what Tiger Woods Workout is. I can tell you Tiger does nothing different or special than the other tour players or any of my members or customers. It is not rocket science, nor is it difficult to apply.

Tiger Woods brought the approach of golf workouts and training to the tour, and boy did he make a statement! Nobody took their fitness serious before Tiger came along. I know what you are thinking. What about Gary Player?

And yes that is true…but most of the players in that era just laughed at him and ignored this approach. Now everybody on tour (execpt a few people) have a golf trainer that travels with them full time. That’s how serious it is now. If you don’t take your fitness seriously, you won’t compete, and you won’t make any money.

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I just flipped on the television and literally within 5 minutes Vijay Singh was on with his golf trainer talking about his workout for golf.  As a certified trainer of over 24 years it was nice to see a “real” trainer making a difference with one of the top golfers in the world (and over 40 years of age no-less).

One statistic they just said was Vijay has won more tournaments after the age of 40 than before!  How impressive is that!  He does a ton of core strength and flexibility work with a medicine ball and stability ball.  These are the types of golf exercises I have in all my golf fitness dvds, manual and online training program.

This IS the ONLY way to work on your body specific to golf.  Going to a gym and plopping down on a machine will not help your golf game whatsoever. 

In the same show, Stewart Appleby was swinging a weighted golf club and Zach Johnson talked about working with his trainer in the PGA trailer before a round during a tournament!

Go out there and get a stability ball and medicine ball and do some searches on the net for golf fitness and golf exercises and come up with your very own personal golf fitness routine.

Golfers workout can mean many things and either help your golf game or hurt it. With the adoption of golfers workout programs on tour, it has become mainstream with the golfing population.

But what is golfers workout, and what makes it effective?

First off, a credible golfers workout program is one that incorporates both strength and stretching exercises specific to your golf swing. I see so many programs that have one or the other, but very few that incorporate both.

By incorporating both, you not only improve your power, consistency and mechanics, but your “feel” around the greens with your newfound body awareness.

For every golf strength exercise you do, you should do a proceeding stretch for that muscle. This is the most efficient approach that will also save you time.

Also, try to mimic your golf swing positions when doing your golfers workout. That means “on your feet” and in your golf posture. This will give you a double benefit of golf specific strength and stability in your golf swing.

I have been contacted many times from men searching for exercise, fitness, workout and weight loss related solutions who also golf. This is a phenomena that is quite common and I didn’t even know it.

With over 27 million golfers in our country, many of them have health, fitness and weight loss goals, but they don’t realize there are golf specific programs that can help them achieve all the above.

If you are in the demographic of golfers between 50 and 80 who want to improve not only their health but golf game, you can do both. It’s not a bad thing to focus on your health and indirectly improve your golf game is it?

The majority of golfers I work with through my golf training membership site and golf exercise dvds, all want to lose weight. Some only 5-10 pounds, others up to 50 pounds. Carrying extra weight on the golf course not only makes it hard to perform sound golf swing mechanics, but the risk of injury is much higher.

Why not put your health, exercise, fitness, workout weight loss and golf goals all in one program? It’s doable and will take care of many issues at the same time.