People workout for so many different reasons, from training for a specific event to looking after their mental and physical health to simply because they enjoy challenging themselves with personal fitness goals.

Workouts are often part of a wider picture when it comes to the exercise someone does in their life. If you’re training for a long run, for instance, experts will emphasise the importance of strength-based workouts to reduce injury risk and improve race times, according to Runner’s World .

The same goes for if you’re a regular golfer - the working out you do alongside playing golf is vital if you want to give yourself the best chance of optimising your swing.

At Mannix, we’re sharing a series of workout tips to help you improve your golf swing, and this blog details the first two tips.

You can do these wherever you workout. You can get them done as part of your gym routine, but you can also do them just as easily from the comfort of your home using products that Mannix offers.

For this workout you need:

1x dumbbell set at the weight of your choice

1x flat weight bench

 

The following exercises specifically target the lower body with the aim of increasing power and stability in the golf swing:

 1) Dumbbell Step Ups

• Hold two dumbbells by your side and using a flat weight bench, step up with one leg until you’re firmly stood on top of the bench. Then step back down to the floor leading with the same leg you stepped up with.
• Do 10-15 reps leading with one leg and then another 10-15 leading with the other.
• Try to do between 3-5 sets.
• This exercise activates your glutes, hamstrings and quads and helps to develop strength and stability in your lower body.
• To make this exercise more challenging, hold the dumbbells up level with your shoulders and perform the same exercise. This helps to further activate your core and tests your stability even more.

2) Standing Lunges

• Holding two dumbbells by your side, place your left foot forward and your right foot back. Your front foot needs to be about 30cm in front of your body and your rear foot about double that distance back. This will depend on your height but ultimately, your rear foot needs to be far enough back that your knee falls straight to the floor in line with your body when you perform the lunge.
• Once you have got the desired position, focus on going down through the motion and drop your rear knee towards the floor.
• Pause just before you reach the floor and then move back up to the original position.
• You want to make sure your front knee does not go further forward than your toes and you also want to ensure your back is kept straight throughout the exercise.
• Do this 10-15 times and then alter your front foot.
• Again, you want to perform 3-5 sets.

Both these exercises are designed to improve the strength and stability in your lower body which will ultimately help you achieve greater control in your golf swing.

There are dozens more exercises you can do to improve your golf swing, so keep checking back for more content like this on our blog.

We also cover a number of other sports, with a whole section of the blog dedicated to showing you how fitness exercises can be used to enhance your performance.