Golf Swing Speed Exercises
Many people think that the key to increasing your golf swing speed lies in hitting the ball harder. This simply isn’t true. Increasing speed takes golf swing speed exercises. Golf swing speed exercises help you build the muscles that are needed for an increase in speed. Strength is the key to speed!
This doesn’t mean that you should become a weight lifter and bulk up. It means that you need to develop some of the muscles in your shoulders and upper back a bit more. This can easily be done with what feels more like stretching exercises than muscle building exercises. Place your golf club behind your neck. Let it rest against the back of your neck, and hold each end of the club with your hands.
Looking straight ahead, twist first to the left, and then back to the right – keep your head perfectly still while doing this, and don’t twist so far that you hurt your back! Do this exercise everyday. Start with a slow pace, and build up to a faster pace as you exercise.
Eventually, you will reach a limit to the strength that you can build using this method. At that point, you must move on to bigger and better things, such as a golf training club. A golf training club is a great deal heavier than a regular golf club. Have you ever heard that if you start carrying a new born calf up a flight of stairs everyday from the day it is born, that you will be able to carry it up the same flight of stairs when it is a full grown cow? If you think about it, this is a true statement, even though you may have trouble convincing the cow!
If you practice with the heavier golf training club, you will get used to the amount of force that you must use to achieve what you hope to achieve when you strike the ball. Then, when you switch back to a regular club, you will find that you are automatically using that same amount of force – your swing speed is automatically (somewhat) increased!
These golf swing speed exercises will greatly help you increase the speed at which you swing, which in turn affects the force with which you hit the ball, causing the ball to go farther than it ever did before!
