to play better your body has to have a reasonable level of strength, flexibility, endurance and ENERGY! You can’t get this hitting more balls; taking more lessons; or buying more equipment.

You attain this “off the course” through exercise. I know what you’re thinking…ugh.

No…wait…it doesn’t have to be that way.

You don’t need to get a gym membership. You don’t have to spend hours a day. You don’t have to kill yourself. You just have to devise a plan that is efficient and tailored to YOUR needs.

If you really want to play better golf…this is the only way to achieve it quickly.

How many times have you walked off the course in disgust? You know you can do better, but your body just won’t do what your brain wants it to do. I hear this all the time. In fact, I’ve received hundreds of emails saying just that.

My answer is the same every time!

To play better you’ve got to improve your range of motion specific to golf, as well as your strength for all phases of the swing.

The most important aspect for improving distance is rotational strength and flexibility. The ability to rotate back to a full 90 degree shoulder turn; store up all that energy in your core; and then unleash it during the downswing…crushing that ball.

Now that’s a fun game when that happens.

So focus on improving your range of motion and strength from a rotational standpoint. That doesn’t take a gym or fancy equipment. All it takes is simple equipment like dumbbells (hand weights), an exercise ball and exercise tubing.

With this equipment you can literally break down the swing into multiple phases and do exercises for each phase. You won’t find many of these exercises in the “so-called” fitness books in the store. All you’ll see is the golfer “sitting” in a machine in a gym.

That’s not fitness for golf; that’s “general fitness” Not altogether a bad thing, but won’t help your game at all.

I hope I’ve given you food for thought.

The ultimate goal is to “play better golf!”
Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf fitness experts in the country, author of the Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Mike has just released his Ultimate Golf Fitness Dvd's at his golf fitness site - Perform Better Golf.