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Cure Your Golf Swing Faults Without Taking More Lessons by Mike Pedersen

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I really rate Mike Pedersen - he is widely acknowledged as one of the leading golf fitness training experts in the United States, having taught thousands of golfers — including golf pros, fitness trainers, etc. — the fitness approach to playing a consistently great game of golf.

Mike has a degree in Exercise Physiology from Oregon State University and has been a certified fitness professional for 20 years. He has worked exclusively with golfers the last 8 years.

Please find below some of Mike’s fitness advise which may help you cure your golf swing thoughts without taking more lessons?!

The Ed.

Golf Fitness Performance Expert

To cure golf swing faults is an endeavor every amateur golfer dreams of but usually does not succeed. I have heard the same story hundreds of times. Golfers taking dozens of lessons, buying fitted equipment and practicing regularly never to see improvement in their golf swing faults.

Your Body Is Keeping Your From Great Golf

If all the above has been implemented, there is only one thing left. It’s your body. Your body is keeping you from curing your swing faults and it will continue to until you address the physical limitations that are causing this.

Golf Lessons Can Be Frustrating

How many times have you taken a lesson to hear your golf pro tell you, you need to make a 90 degree shoulder turn with only 45 degrees of hip rotation; and until you do, you won’t hit the kind of distances you know you are capable of?

Or, you’re “coming out of your shot” and that is why you’re not consistent with your irons, or any club in your bag for that matter.

Swing Faults And Physical Limitations

These are “physical” issues that are causing those swing faults. Your body can’t and won’t allow you to make an efficient and repeatable golf swing. For every swing fault you have, I can find a physical limitation that’s either causing it, or adding to the lack of being able to correct it.

Once you focus on the limitation in your body, you will be able to correct your swing fault easily, and without more golf lessons. If you’ve taken lessons, you have a basic understanding of golf swing mechanics. You don’t need to keep pounding that into your head.

Cure “Coming Out Of Your Swing”

A perfect example is “coming out of your swing”. You’ve heard your pro tell you, you do this, but how do you keep from doing it over and over again? I can tell you it’s not hitting more balls, or taking more lessons.

It’s focusing on the limitations in your body that will solve this swing fault forever. There are many potential causes of this swing fault, but one for sure is weak and very tight hamstring muscles.

When you are in your golf posture, your hamstring muscles are under tremendous tension. As the swing progresses, these hamstrings will either be strong enough and flexible enough to allow you to stay in your golf posture, or they will send a signal to your brain to “get out of that uncomfortable position, thus causing you to come out of your golf swing.

The two pictures I have inserted cover both strength and flexibility specifically for this area of your body. They are simple and yet very effective in isolating your hamstrings specific to your golf swing.

Golf Strength Exercise

An exercise I use with all my personal clients and in all my dvds and books is the One Legged Deadlift With Dumbbell.

Instructions:
• Stand with feet shoulder width apart, holding dumbbell in right hand.
• Maintain very erect posture and lower towards floor with the hand holding the dumbbell.
• As you bend forward the opposite leg goes up behind you for balance.
• Return to starting position and complete 12 reps, then switch arms & legs.
• Complete 3 sets of 12 repetitions.
As you can see, this exercise targets the hamstrings in almost the identical position they are in and go through in your golf swing. Doing them with one leg also challenges your balance and stability.

Golf Flexibility Exercise
A flexibility exercise that isolates the hamstrings and can be done daily, if not several times a day is the Lying Hamstring Stretch With Towel.

Instructions:
• Lie on floor with legs extended.
• Place towel on bottom of one foot by bending knee and pulling it towards body.
• Slowly straighten leg against towel.
• Do not pull with towel, straighten leg against towel, upper leg should be at a 90 degree angle at hip and remain there during stretch.
• Hold for 15 seconds, repeat and switch legs.

Swing Faults Be Gone
This is just one example of how to isolate your physical limitations to cure your golf swing faults. This is one of the most effective approaches to golf improvement and should not be overlooked.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf performance experts in the country. He is Golf Magazines Golf Performance Expert; has been featured on pga.com; and is the founder of several cutting-edge online golf performance membership sites.

Take a look at his golf fitness training system at www.PerformBetterGolf.com

Written By Mike Pedersen

The Ed.