Figured this would be the right place to put this… but I wanted to see what people are doing in terms of golf fitness… Honestly, I think this is an underserved and overlooked area for where people can gain strokes without “practicing golf”… It’s also good for you!
Quick backstory on me, I just turned 39 and am out of shape… I’m currently injured, mostly because I tried to start an exercise program too quickly, and then ignored my body. The long story short of it is: I tweaked an oblique doing rotational work, mostly ignored the pain and played golf anyways… it was mostly fine (slowly getting better) and then I played back to back days in a Member-Member I shouldn’t have been playing in… I couldn’t get anything going on the second day, so I decided to ignore the pain and swing my regular swing… 2 MRIs later and I have torn cartilage in my back. Nothing permanent, but I haven’t played a round of golf since the beginning of August. So the long story short is take fitness seriously and slowly… don’t hurt yourself!
Let’s talk fitness!
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized I need a good exercise routine to keep me healthy and hopefully playing golf longer. I do better with a program built towards a goal, and figured chasing some extra club head speed was a good use of gym time… Basically, I created a rewards system for myself where (ideally) going to the gym would lead to me hitting the golf ball farther. We can get into speed training elsewhere (as lifting is only a part of developing CHS) but I want to talk specific gym related stuff.
I signed up for Fit For Golf. It has a ton of workouts build around golf… basically focusing on trunk rotation and building fast twitch muscles… It also works the whole body, so it gets a proper workout in for anyone who is looking to improve general fitness as well.
I like that it’s targeted towards golf but not only golf exercises. It hits exactly what I’m looking for of “Hey, if you are trying to improve your fitness, why not make your focus golf fitness?”. It also has some good stretching stuff, which I compliment with old stretches I know, YouTube Yoga and some PT stuff I picked up this month trying to recover from injury.
My goals for the rest of the year are to get my back healthy and then slowly work back into doing a full fitness routine… I’m going to focus early on strengthen my core and stretching. Once I’m fully recovered, I’m going to start back into Fit for Golf and focus on building CHS still.
My ultimate goal is to get back down to my high school wrestling weight and hit 120mph.