Athletic Golf Fitness

Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this week’s Golf Digest article.

If you want to get stronger, produce more force, and build a more resilient body for golf, check this one out.

One of the reasons I love isometrics is simple: you can create a ton of force without a ton of movement.

For golfers, I typically use them two ways:

Overcoming isometrics: Short, aggressive efforts — usually 5–10 seconds — where you push or pull against something that won’t move.

These are great for teaching someone to create force, and I’ll often pair them with a jump, throw, or other explosive movement to help turn that force into speed.

Yielding isometrics: Longer holds — typically 30–60 seconds — where the goal is to maintain position under load.

These are great for building strength and stability in positions a golfer may be weak, stiff, or simply not comfortable owning.

And that’s the bigger point:

Training isn’t always about adding more weight, reps, or exercises.

Sometimes we need to produce more force.

Sometimes we need to control it better.

Isometrics give us another tool to train both — without adding a ton of unnecessary fatigue.

Check out the full article Golf Digest and I’ve included a few of my favorite isometric exercises for golfers.

7 exercises to help open up your hips and torso, and activate your core.

Your body adapts to stress applied or not applied; so if you spent a few more hours on the couch watching March Madness this weekend, your body adapts to it.

Hips get stiff.
Thoracic rotation gets jammed up.
And the pelvis and ribcage stop working together.

Then you stand up and expect to rotate, separate, and produce force.

That’s usually where things fall apart.

A good pre-round or post-weekend reset isn’t about doing more.

It’s about restoring the pieces that tend to go missing:

• Thoracic rotation — so you’re not stealing motion from the lower back
• Hip mobility — so you can actually get into positions instead of working around them
• Core and pelvic control — so you can stabilize and transfer force instead of leaking it

The goal isn’t to feel “loose.”

The goal is to:
restore motion where you need it
and control it once you have it

Do that, and everything — from your swing to how your body feels after — tends to clean up pretty quickly.

Give these 7 exercises a try and let me know which was your favorite.