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General Fitness & Exercise
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Any Good Exercises for the Golf Swing

bill1975
bill1975
Posts: 5
Joined: 2008/01/08
Canada
2008/03/09, 12:32 PM
Hi there, I just recently joined the gym and i'm a scratch golfer who is interested in attaining more distance this season. Anyone know of specific exercises that are beneficial to golf?

yadmit
yadmit
Posts: 4,670
Joined: 2003/10/05
Canada
2008/03/09, 05:04 PM
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=golf+workouts&btnG=Search&meta=
corless319
corless319
Posts: 118
Joined: 2008/03/07
United States
2008/03/12, 11:28 AM
bill I seen a guy yesterday doing his golf swing at the gym with a dumbbell over and over again. He was sweating and I was thinking hmm not bad. Also I'm sure you could work some sort of variation of a golf swing with the cables on a machine.
bill1975
bill1975
Posts: 5
Joined: 2008/01/08
Canada
2008/03/12, 08:23 PM
good point corless....i will look into it.

thanks again.
Sam295
Sam295
Posts: 23
Joined: 2008/03/19
Canada
2008/03/30, 11:01 AM
Ah, a need fore speed.
Don't swing a heavy weight to slowly to build golf speed.
It doesn't make sense!
The clubhead is real light.
I swing a speedchain.
It is a chain on a golf grip with progressively heavier links. The faster you are able to move the chains the more resistance you create.
I went from 107mph clubhead speed to over 120mph.
I avg. 290 off the tee at 145lbs.
Against many speed trainers I talk to I have started to weight again and have gained close to 10lbs now.
I haven't checked my swingspeed lately so I'm not sure how the extra weight and slow training has affected me.
Hers a link :
click on video 1 and video 2
http://www.speedchaininstructions.com/