In the golf swing the ground is used as a leverage point to produce the rotational power that leads to long, straight shots. Leverage from the ground is transmitted through the legs and hips up to the pelvic region. The pelvic region is the base of your athletic core and is the source of all athletic power.

Three Points For Generating Maximum Core Power

Your core cannot generate maximum power if it is not in optimal positions. The first requirement for great power is that your muscles hold your organs tightly so that power can flow through your body. Second, you must focus on training the muscles that rotate the torso from side to side. Third, you have to train the muscles that move the ribs towards and away from the pelvis. The only way you can generate your full power is if all of these muscles are strong enough to transfer the power developed from the point of leverage where the feet contact the ground, through the pelvis and up through the upper body.

It is important for your internal organs to be supported because if your soft organs are lose and moving around, then you lose a lot of power. Imagine if you were to hit a rubber hose that was loosely filled with metal BB s. If you were to take a hammer and hit the top of the hose then the hose would bow and squish, telling you that there was extremely poor power transfer. However, pack those BB s as tight as possible into the hose, making it as firm as possible, and much more of the energy from the hammer is transferred. The same principle hold true with your pelvis and organs.

How To Properly Activate Your Core Muscles For Maximum Power

In order to properly activate the deep abdominal/core muscles responsible for power, first properly center yourself on your feet. Next, imagine trying to put on the tightest pair of pants you have ever seen. In order to get them on, you have to suck in your stomach quite a bit. The idea is to try and bring your spine and stomach together by drawing your belly button in and up as far as possible and holding that position.

This is basically what you should do before and during every single exercise you perform, as it will greatly increase the overall effectiveness of the exercise, both from an athletic and general functional fitness standpoint. It is also a movement that you can do anytime, from sitting in your office to watching tv. It is a very easy but extremely effective exercise that you should do as often as possible.

Increase Exercise Difficulty And Effectiveness Significantly

This will probably be extremely difficult at first for you, but you will eventually adapt. An example of this technique in practice would be during the Medicine Ball Torso Twist exercise. During this exercise you hold a medicine ball in front of you and rotate the ball from one side of your body to another. If you were to just swing the medicine ball without activating your core (drawing in your stomach) it is an extremely easy movement that will most likely not challenge you very much.

By drawing in your abs you significantly increase both the difficulty and effectiveness of this exercise. The key is to maintain the tight torso throughout the entire movement. When training for greater golf power high quality is much more effective than loads of reps.

It is important to note that crunch boards, sit-up contraptions and most common abdominal training routines do absolutely nothing for increasing golf power or trimming your waistline. Don t waste your time at the gym doing sit ups, crunches and leg lifts. By doing the right ab exercises you can develop both greater athletic/golf power and a trimmer waistline in significantly less time.

As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the NSCA, Jason Krantz’s focus is on significantly improving the power levels and injury resistance of all golfers. He specializes in power enhancement and all related components of improved golf performance. For more information on how Jason can help your game visit http://www.sonicboomgolf.com

You can also download Jason’s free golf fitness e-book at http://www.sonicboomgolf.com/pro_shop.php

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I am sure you all can remember a round of golf with a friend where he was trying to fix your swing on every hole. And every time you try what he is telling you your game gets worse. You are thinking to yourself where does he get all this stuff from. He shoots 120, and he is telling me how to swing??

Well this is one of the mistakes many golfers make. But generally it does not come from friends. It comes from reading every golf publication out there from cover to cover or watching the Golf Channel for hours on end. No, there is nothing wrong with either but when you start taking the mountain of information they provide you to the course that is where you get yourself in trouble.

I always refer back to my father coming of the golf course smile in hand and saying, Man I shot 78 today and found my new swing. I would say Congratulations . But what I was really thinking was man if I only had a nickel for every time I heard that. Because I knew the next round he would come in and not want to tell me what he shot. And I would know that he had put up a monsterous number, all because he had changed swings once again. The saying goes Don’t fix what ain’t broke. Why when people find something that works want to change it? Well they think there other idea might even be better then their first.

We Americans are famous for this. We will invent something and then already be working on its replacement before it is even seen by the public. In other countries it is different and I would use their philosophy if I was The Man with 500 Swings . They find something that works and just keep improving on it.

Think about it. Say you have been playing golf for 15 years, do you think that totally changing your swing to fit what Golf Digest says will work? The answer is NO!! Golf is a simple game, no it really is. Golfers are the ones that make it so complicated. Go back to the basics. Remember there are about 5 basic components to a swing. And they all replicate the motion of that Pendulem you used to see on corporate desks. The one with five silver balls. Physics don’t lie (Gravitational pull, weight, force, etc) are very similar when comparing the two. Every golfer should have one of these good luck J Take a second and visualize the swinging motion of that pendulem. If you pull it straight back where does the ball on the other end go?? DEAD STRAIGHT!! Pull the ball slightly in the wrong direction and you get the slice or hook depending on which way you pulled it back.

I know this is over simplifying the game but I am just writing it to remind you all that these Golf Magazine lessons that are written are for a purpose. Yes, they are there to help, but remember that the magazine publisher has a lot of space to fill every week. And if it were not for these types of articles they would not sell many magazines.

Adam Beach
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