Strengthen Your Game

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According to Dana Santas in "Swing Like Spieth: 3 Yoga Moves to

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improve Your Golf Game," current thinking about improving your golf game, emphasizes "the functional movement required to execute the perfect swing, which is why yoga is increasingly appealing to golfers."

Santas is the yoga trainer for numerous pros in golf, baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. He describes Spieth's movement in the Masters as exhibiting "optimal movement in two key areas that enhance swing power and fluid control while decreasing the risk of back and knee injuries: mid-back mobility and internal hip rotation...while maintaining a stable low back and integrated core strength as the foundation for expressing his swing mobility."

 

Want the mobility to swing like Spieth and avoid the back and knee issues that commonly plague golfers? Santas recommends " Three yoga-based moves I use with my PGA clients to address the key areas of the swing."  He points out that the moves will not only help your swing but will also help to alleviate or sidestep altogether problems with knees and back.

• Half child's pose with internal hip rotation   Trains internal hip rotation; stabilizes and lengthens lower back muscles; stretches upper back and shoulders; encourages ankle mobility.
• Sphinx  Promotes proper mid-back extension; strengthens shoulder girdle, opens front of shoulders and chest; lengthens low back.
• Twisting Chair  Promotes thoracic spine rotation and shoulder girdle function; stabilizes low back; activates glutes (primary muscles of the buttocks); encourages ankle mobility, strengthens adductors (groins), core and legs (Santas, April 23, 2015)

Interested?  The moves are explained with detailed instructions and pictures in

 http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/health/yoga-for-golf/