The Golfer Step Up exercise is an excellent way to develop strength and stability in your lower body. The beauty of this movement is that it is unilateral, meaning you are training only one side at a time. This is valuable because it can assist in correcting strength imbalances between your right and left sides. […]
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Your glutes are powerhouse of your golf swing… or at least they should be. However, these days the majority of golfers I work with have glutes that don’t work. I’m not talking about plumbing or digestive issues, but rather their glutes not firing at optimal intensity. That means less distance and a greater chance of
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In part 1 of this Golf Rotation Exercise series we covered the Pallof Press. If you missed that post, please watch that video HERE and master that exercise before progressing to this more advanced golf rotation exercise, known as “The Walkout.” Like the Pallof Press, this golf rotation exercise actually resists rotation, which will build
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Golf rotation exercises are popular because they look and feel like the motion of the golf swing, at least in terms of the core action. We’ve covered Wood Chop Variations HERE. But today we’ll look at an underappreciated golf rotation exercise that is quite challenging; the Pallof Press. This is actually ANTI-rotation exercises. So you might be
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In our last RGT video, we covered the benefits of the Turkish Get Up for golfers, as well as the first portion of the movement. In review, this is a bad-ass exercise because: It builds golf stability, which is important in your golf swing because it enables you to disassociate your upper and lower body,
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The Turkish Get Up (TGU) is among the rare exercises that work on Stability, Mobility, and Strength all at the same time. Of course, these are all critical qualities for a consistent and powerful golf swing. This is why we utilize the Turkish Get Up for golfers here at Renegade Golf Training. It can be performed,
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The Kettlebell Swing exercise is an excellent option for building golf power and distance with all of your clubs. Sounds good, right? But not quite so fast. The KB Swing is a ballistic power progression on the Hip Hinge strength pattern, covered in the post below: Related: The Romanian Deadlift For Golf Please make sure
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NOTE: I used the image above because I thought the guys were rocking the cool socks. However, we really need to work on the deadlift technique for the guy in the yellow shirt. I’m sending him this video link…. 😉 The Romanian Deadlift for golf (aka RDL) is a great exercise because it: Strengthens everything from
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The Push Up is the King of the horizontal pressing movement pattern, and our choice here at RGT for developing golf strength and power in the upper body, including the core (which most golfers don’t realize). The barbell bench press has nothing on this beautifully functional and adaptive exercise. No matter what the huge bodybuilders tell
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Golf rotation exercises are among the most popular movement patterns here at RGF; and for good reason. They strengthen the key muscles used in the golf swing, and develop strength, power and distance. Although we’ve discussed in previous posts that there are a myriad of valuable planes of movement in which to strength train, and
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