Total Gym Workouts to Improve Your Golf Swing



Putting the Total Gym to Work For Your Golf Swing

Golf season is in full swing! As a Total Gym Master Trainer ® and avid Golfer (former top Minnesota amateur), I want to share three powerful ways to use your Total Gym to improve your golf swing.

  1. Power: In golf and almost every sport, all your power comes from your legs. The golf swing requires an explosive leg drive to generate maximum club head speed. The perfect exercise on the Total Gym to train your explosive, fast-twitch muscle fibers, are Plyo-metric Squats. Check out the video for some great hip and calf stretches while you’re resting between sets of your Plyo-metric Squats.
  2. Flexibility: How can Michelle Wie hit the ball as far as Ernie Els when he out- weighs her by 80 pounds? Not strength, but flexibility! It is the most important fitness component for a life-long, fluid golf swing. When working out with the cable system of the Total Gym, every exercise has both a lengthening component as well as a strengthening component. In addition to the leg stretches, the video demonstrates a great chest/frontal shoulder stretch that wonderfully counters all the daily life activities (like computers and driving) that cause tension in our chest and shoulders. Look for my other blog post on the dos and don’ts of stretching, coming soon!
  3. Core Strength: Total Gym has embodied functional training for over 40 years, long before it became a buzz-word in fitness! Using your own body weight and requiring core engagement throughout an exercise is textbook functional training. As demonstrated in the video, a simple chest press on the Total Gym requires the core to stabilize the spine in the same way the core must stabilize the spine during the rigors of the golf swing. In addition, I show you how to do an oblique exercise that beautifully emulates the rotation of the golf swing and will increase the flexibility in your spine – it’s my favorite oblique exercise on the Total Gym!

Working out to improve my athletic performance in sports like football, hockey and golf is what first ignited my passion for fitness. The Total Gym functionally trains your balance, coordination, strength and flexibility and will improve your golf swing AND the overall health of your body!

Hit ‘em straight!

JayDee Cutting III, MBA – Total Gym Master Trainer
A life-long avid Golfer, JayDee has combined his fitness and Golf passions to develop
www.CoreGolfFitness.com
Check it out!

JayDee Cutting III, MBA

JayDee Cutting III, MBA is an Educator for the American Council On Exercise and holds 12 fitness certifications including Pilates, yoga, personal training, lifestyle and weight management. JayDee is a Total Gym master trainer and spokesmodel since 2004. He lectured and taught wellness at Rancho La Puerta Fitness Spa and is featured in over 10 fitness DVDs and over 40 fitness television programs. He developed his own Coregolf Fitness Program and founded the NiceDogYoga Company. His mission statement is: “My passion is inspiring people to enhance their lives through wellness, creating healthier, happier, higher qualities of life.”

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. Zachary Atkins

    20 Feb 2015 Reply

    Great article, Im not a fitness instructor or anything but they seem pretty reasonable. If you wanna go the extra mile to better your golf swing you can check theese guys as well http://nogolfswing.com

  2. J Plantohn

    7 May 2016 Reply

    H I’m a 68 year old golfer that walks 400 plus rounds a year. I walk 6000 yds in 2 1/2 hours. What’s started happening this year is my drives are shorter and not as accurate. I’m off balance and don’t feel the good contact I’ve felt before. I bought a XLS last fall and used it through the winter thinking I would be in better shape. I’m afraid I screwed myself up. I did a lot of curls and abs. What should I be doing?.

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