Improve Your Swing by Postural Strength

in Health and Fitness | by Michael Dalgleish

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Starting Position - Side View

(Photo: The Golf Athlete)

As discussed in many of the other golf health and fitness articles, one of the main contributors to a consistent and repeatable golf swing is upper back postural awareness and control. A lack of this awareness and control can have its origin attributed to a lack of the optimal activation of the muscles that maintain ideal upper back posture and connect the arms to the trunk. The muscles that are biased in exercises of this type ...
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