Golf has been discriminated against in the past as it is not a physically demanding sport. This is incorrect as golf is an athletic Wholesale Dean Lowry Jersey , physically demanding game. Flexibility, strength, balance, skill and coordination are all important factors when playing golf. Flexibility and strength are the grass roots for the development of the coordination, skill, stability and balance. These skills are important in any type of sport. No matter your age or ability proper conditioning will enable you to take advantage of your lessons, time spent on the range and reduces your risk of injury. Flexibility is extremely important and if taken care of can improve your game dramatically.
There is an optimum range of motion or flexibility that us needed to swing a golf club around your body. It is essential to maintain the correct posture and keep your eyes on the ball. The body is made up of many components and is a long chain made up of many links. If you have a problem or restriction within or between the links you have to compensate elsewhere. This can cause pain in certain areas and a poor performance. Movements will then be insufficient and power will be lost. There is a greater amount of risk when flexibility is poor. The most common areas where there is damage due to poor flexibility are neck Wholesale Kyle Murphy Jersey , shoulders, back, hips, knees and ankles. All the soft tissue within the body needs to be able to move freely to prevent over compensation and injury to other areas. By reaching your optimal flexibility it makes it easier to maintain a better posture and the axis of rotation. By doing this is keeps the club on the proper path for square contact. Flexibility promotes a more consistent, efficient and powerful swing by:
? Reducing unwanted compensations. This is when one part of your body has to stretch further as there is a restriction in another. By doing this there is a large amount of stress on certain areas and can result in injury. For example: restricted hip motion causes excessive spinal rotation and or shoulder movement and vice versa. And if the hips back and shoulders are tight, excessive head, arm andor wrist movement occurs Wholesale Jahri Evans Jersey , all of which can alter the swing plane, posture and cause injury in those areas.
? Maintaining posture. Flexibility can help with your posture throughout the swing. Miss hits are more likely when you are unable to maintain your spine angles. By this happening other postures will be lost at the ankles, knees, hips and trunk.