When the majority consider the core, they consider those mighty musculus abdominus muscles chargeable for a carton abdomen and a stable golf swing. however once it involves the movement aspects of your swing, the obliques play a key role, too. In fact, if these muscles on the perimeters of your abdomen ar weak, you may extremely struggle to form solid contact with the ball.

Dave Phillips and Greg Rose, UN agency head the spectacular Titleist Performance Institute, make a case for however weak oblique and gluteal muscle muscles mix to provide one in every of golf's most typical swing flaws--reverse spine angle.

"Reverse spine angle isn't to be confused with a reverse pivot, that appearance similar however could be a drawback of poor weight shift," says Rose. "Reverse spine angle happens once weak oblique and gluteal muscle muscles force you to lose all of your flexion as you swing to the highest. If you're bent at the hips thirty degrees at address, however that shifts to minus-5 degrees at the highest, you have got reversed your spine angle. Your trunk can lean toward the target. this is often a serious reason behind lower-back pain and poor contact."

And once you ar back within the gymnasium, an excellent thanks to correct the matter of reverse spine angle is by doing this drill, Rose says: "Using a slim stance, get into a half-kneeling position and take a large grip on a club together with your arms extended. Keeping the lower body still, rotate the trunk toward the bent knee because the arms move up and across the body. The rotation can strengthen the obliques, and therefore the move helps the glutes. Do a group of ten in every direction, switch the leg positions."

Phillips says a way you can check to see if your obliques and glutes are active when you swing is by doing this drill: "At address, drop your left foot back almost behind your right (left). Now swing to the top. If you begin to fall over, you've decreased the angle that you bent forward at the hips way too far. Focus on keeping some flexion as you swing to the top, and you won't lose your balance."

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