| Great exercises 300yds. All golfers can benefit by strengthing their golf muscles. Not only does this give us more distance, but it also increases our potential for longevity as well as making the golf swing much easier to execute.
I'd like to clarify one thing so people aren't confused. The reasons strongs wrists are important to achieving more distance is not so much how fast you can snap your wrists, but how long you can hold the lag in your swing, which is the angle on the downswing between the hands and the clubs, generated by holding your wrists from firing through. The stronger your wrists are, the longer you can hold this angle and the more clubhead speed your release will generate through the impact zone.
I'll add a couple of exercises. Hand strength is also vital to creating this type of lag.
Grab a tennis ball in one hand. Squeeze it as hard as you can for 3-5 seconds, relax your hand for a few seconds, then do it again. Do 5 reps with each hand at first, then more as your hand gets stronger.
Grab a newspaper and lay out a page you're finished with. Put your hand in the middle and without moving your hand in any direction, crumple up the page using your fingers only. Do this with a few pages in each hand. Wash your hands immediately thereafter. You'll get a lot of ink on your hands doing this.
Remember, while strength is important, golf isn't all about brute force. It's also largely about flexibility, so make sure, along with strengthening these muscles, you are also stretching them as well. I know plenty of guys that are twice as strong as me in the terms of raw muscle, but can't move worth beans. What happens? I outdrive them by 30 yards on average. They get mad because they hit the gym 5x a week. But see, they never stretch these muscles to get any elasticity in them, so their effectiveness is much less than someone who has less muscle, but more elasticity.
Now just imagine if you can get both strength and flexibility, like Tiger, Sergio, Howell III, Ernie, Camilo, and all of these long bombers on the Tour.
Hit the weights, but more importantly, hit the stretches.
__________________ Cody Wheeler
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