If you’re looking for more distance with your driver you’ll need to increase your core strength to achieve it. Longer drives don’t just happen, they occur when you’ve focused on the right preparation.

Hitting longer drives is not for the weak or feeble. It is for the golfers willing to put a ‘little’ work in “off the course” focusing on strength training for your core. The core, meaning the middle of your body. The energy source of your golf swing!

Since the golf swing is rotary, you want to focus most of your effort on twisting exercises with resistance. This resistance can be exercise tubing, balls, dumbbells or even weighted golf clubs.

I want to show you a simple golf exercise that targets your core, and if done consistently will add many yards to your drives.

I call this the seated twist with medicine ball:

Instructions:
Sit with legs extended in front.
Lean back until your feet come off the floor approximately one foot.
Keep posture very erect throughout movement.
Grab medicine ball (or single dumbbell) with upper arms snug against body.
While focusing straight ahead, turn upper body with ball to one side and touch ground outside hip.
Turn to other side and touch.

Benefits to Golf Swing:
Strengthens muscles directly involved in the rotary movement of the golf swing.
Allows body to turn very aggressively through the swing to promote a very powerful golf swing.
Improves distance by improving muscle recruitment and firing with the weighted ball.

This is one simple golf exercise for your core that will increasing your power and driving distance. Mike has this exercise and many others in his Ultimate Golf Fitness DVD Package over at PerformBetterGolf.com.

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