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5 Easy Steps To Replacing Your Golf Grips
Replacing your golf grips is like servicing your car; you must do it on a very routine basis to keep them in top working order. We suggest changing your grips at least once a season, maybe even twice depending on where you live and how much you...
Golf-Game for Newbies?
Golf-Game for Newbies?
By ElmerFizz.com
If you have decided to take up golf as a hobby you will be
rewarded with the benefits of fresh air, exercise, and the
addition of many new friends and acquaintances. Like any project
you approach...
How Focus Can Improve Your Golf Game
Ninety percent of golf is mental. Oh heck, make that 95%! Arnold Palmer stated, "The toughest 6 inches in the game of golf is between a player's ears". The fastest way to lower your score is to master the ability to focus. Most golfers tend to...
How Timing The Golf Swing Is So Critical To Consistent Shots
Timing the golf swing is extremely critical. It is not possible to complete a good golf swing or execute the perfect golf swing without getting your timing right. Exercise plays a vital part in helping a golfer get their timing of the golf swing...
The Absolutely, Positively, Best Way to Get Outstanding Results with Your Golf Swing
Working on the PGA Tour and with Phil Mickelson has brought me
great insight onto how success occurs in professional golf.
I'm sure we'll agree that all the players in the professional
ranks have incredible talent. I also know that talent...
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How The Risk Of ‘Golfer Elbow Injury' Can Be Reduced
A golfer elbow injury has got to be one of the most dreaded injuries on any golf course.
And it is not too difficult to figure out why. To begin with a golfer elbow injury will usually take a long time to heal properly and quite often recurs shortly after a golfer gets back to the course. Golfer elbow injury is very similar to tennis elbow, which tennis players equally dread.
It is the sort of injury where a doctor will prescribe total rest well away from the course. For many a keen golfer, this may be even more punishment than the nagging, and often sharp pain from the golfer elbow injury.
The reason why a golfer elbow injury takes so long to heal and in some cases may never really go away, is because it is the sort of injury that involves a joint. Usually injuries on joints are troublesome. One of the reasons is that it is difficult to rest a joint completely and one ends up using the muscles whenever they make any slight movement.
Therefore any advice or tips to help reduce the risk of golfer elbow is extremely important to any golfer.
Stretch exercises
designed for golf specific muscles or muscles that are used while playing golf can help a great deal in strengthening and conditioning the muscles involved. By strengthening golf specific muscles a golfer ends up putting much less pressure on the tendons that join the muscles to the bones around the elbow area. This greatly reduces the risk of this injury in golfers.
Warm up exercises before getting into a round of golf and a warm down as well, at the end of your game, also help tremendously in reducing the risk of golfer elbow injury.
Warm ups ensure that the pressures involved in playing the game are not exerted on cold muscles, which usually dramatically increases the chances of all sorts of injury and not just the golf elbow injury.
About the Author
About The Author: 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. Check out his new golf fitness - golf training site at Perform Better Golf.
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