| You probably have certain areas of your body you will | | | | golf swing and yoga exercises. Your breath can also |
| want to work on. For example, you may want to | | | | be controlled. |
| increase your core strength. Yoga can provide you | | | | There are three basics characteristics in breathing - |
| with exercises to work on your core strength. You will | | | | the inhaling, the exhaling and the withholding of breath. |
| start by conditioning your abdominal area, and continue | | | | Withholding your breath is an important part of |
| on with your obliques. By strengthening your abdominal | | | | expanding your breathing and stimulating your nervous |
| area they will help strengthen and support your lower | | | | system. In yoga you will only focus on the inhaling and |
| back. | | | | exhaling of your breathing. The yoga exercises |
| These exercises is beneficial to you as a golfer | | | | designed to work on your upper body flexibility will help |
| because it will stabilize your body, strengthen your | | | | you build strength by uses your body's weight against |
| back, give you more power and give support to your | | | | gravity for resistance. They will also incorporate the |
| spine which help the spine to stay at the proper angle | | | | use of strength tubing and weights to stabilize your |
| through your golf swing. Because this is an upper body | | | | core. Your posture is another area yoga exercises |
| workout, you will build more strength in your chest, | | | | can enhance. |
| shoulders, arms, hands and wrists. Breathing is an | | | | There are several different factors attributed to poor |
| important aspect of these exercises. By focusing on | | | | posture, aging, an inactive lifestyle, and ineffective |
| your breathing you will assist your body in maintaining | | | | methods, which can cause an imbalance in the body. |
| its energy and strength. | | | | Poor posture is sweeping the country in adults and |
| Yoga can also provide exercises to give your hips | | | | children and is directly linked to billions of dollars spent |
| more flexibility. Hip flexibility is another avenue of | | | | every year on back pain related healthcare. Here is a |
| exercises you will want to start on. Hip flexibility is | | | | way for you to evaluate your posture. Stand facing a |
| important when performing your golf swing. Your golf | | | | mirror and let your body to fall into its natural stance. |
| swing involves correct hip rotation to create power, | | | | Look at the line of your shoulders and upper back. Is |
| speed, and balance from your hips. The condition of | | | | your upper back rounded and your shoulders turned |
| your lower back and stamina on the course are | | | | slightly inward? If so, you need to work on your |
| connected to your hip flex and strength. | | | | posture. Your natural posture (the way you sit or stand |
| The yoga positions are designed to increase strength | | | | when no one is looking) is your base you will use to |
| in the group of muscles supporting your hips. It is | | | | build your dynamic posture. |
| important to the golfer to be able to maintain correct | | | | Just as in a house, the foundation has to be strong |
| during the forceful phase of the golf swing. The way | | | | enough to handle the structure of the house. Your |
| to determine this is by your ability to maintain correct | | | | natural posture is your foundation in this case. You will |
| posture and your core strength. Your lower back can | | | | want to start with the strengthening of your core and |
| be painful when injured. To reduce the possibilities of | | | | then work your way up to the posture exercises. |
| an injury use the yoga exercises to strengthen your | | | | Yoga is a lot like working a jigsaw puzzle; each piece |
| lower back. | | | | has its own place. On its own it is nothing, but when |
| This year Americans will spend billions of dollars on | | | | added to its proper place it helps complete the whole |
| back pain healthcare costs. Many professional and | | | | picture. With yoga, you cannot put your cart before |
| amateur golfers will play with a back injury. This will go | | | | the horse, as my grandmother used to say. Now we |
| to prove just how important it is to get your body in | | | | are going to look at using weights to improve you golf |
| shape to play golf as in any sport. With yoga, breathing | | | | game. You will be using weights as resistance training, |
| is an important part of the strengthening process. Any | | | | which has been designed just for golf. The golf |
| time you experience a stressful situation on the golf | | | | specific weight program uses moderate weights with |
| course or off the golf course, it causes your heart rate | | | | medium repetitions, and in a 30 to 45 minute time |
| to accelerate and your breathing to become erratic. | | | | frame. |
| When you learn to control your breathing during a | | | | This golf specific program was created to improve |
| stressful time, it will help keep the mind calm and the | | | | your strength and endurance for golf swings, etc. It is |
| body relaxed. With the yoga breathing exercises you | | | | not designed to build muscle. Weak muscles are tight |
| will expand your breath and increase the amount of | | | | muscles and resistance training will increase the blood |
| energy in your body. Breathing is such an important | | | | flow, which will work through a range of motion to |
| part of yoga, without the focus on your breathing yoga | | | | maintain flexibility and strengthening the tendons and |
| is nothing more than just stretching exercises. | | | | ligament to protect and support the joints of your body. |
| Breathing is a natural response and is part of our | | | | Coupled with stretching exercises the training will |
| nervous system, but we can control our breathing in | | | | improve your flexibility. |
| the same way we control movement such as your | | | | |