Resistance training should be part of your winter conditioning program, when you improve strength, you improve control and balance. Also, strength training involves body awareness, muscular control, and coordination all key elements for improved golf. When you do resistance training, you increase blood flow through a functional range of motion, and strengthen the tendons and ligaments in you body’s joints. In conjunction with a stretching program, strength training improves flexibility, not hinders it.
         The strength for golf components of your program addresses your body’s core area – the abs, low back, and hamstrings.
         A golf specific conditioning program incorporates moderate weight, with medium repetitions, and in a time frame of 30-45 minutes. This type of program is designed to improve your golf specific strength and endurance, not build muscle.
         The tire exercise is a different type of resistance exercise. Invented by golfing great Henry cotton, this simple golf exercise strengthens the arm and wrist muscles and helps you judge swing speed.
         Take your normal stance with the tire positioned as the ball. Employing a normal grip sue a quarter swing to hit the back of the tire, moving the club head as fast as possible. The pitch of the swishing noise and the sound of the club’s impact are your speed indicators. The loudest crack at impact is heard when the club head is released properly. Do 3 sets of 15 to 20 swings. Then turnaround and do it from the left side.