Golf has a wide variety of health benefits, such as
increasing your cardiovascular capacity, improving your strength and
endurance, and challenging your motor control and coordination.

While golf is generally considered a low-risk sport, the explosiveness of a golf
swing and the repetitions required to progress in skill can lead to a wide
variety of injuries occurring, most commonly around the back and upper
limb. Because of this, it is important to ensure you are spending time
improving your strength and mobility, so that your body is ready for the
demands of golf.

Mobility
Golf is hard! To effectively produce a golf swing that is powerful and
accurate, you need to have access to your bodies full range of motion.
This involves rotation through your upper back, cross-body reaching
through your shoulders, combined flexion and rotation in your hips, and
compression and lateral flexion in your lumbar spine. Forcing yourself into
these end-of-range positions can lead to injuries occurring over time.
Because of this it is important to give attention to improving your joints
range of motion, so you have access to more movement and less chance
on injury.

Strengthening
Golf is tiring! Anyone who has tried to hit a driver off the first tee will tell you it is
an explosive activity! Hitting a golf ball effectively requires combined strength
from your hip and knee extensors, your shoulder’s rotator cuff, your wrist
extensors and grip strength, as well as the muscles that rotate your trunk and
stabilise your low back. All of this places a large strain on your musculoskeletal
system, which is why it is important to dedicate time to improving your whole-
body strength through your full range of motion, to help reduce any chance of
injury.

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