Cats and dogs is a great exercise to help promote proper spinal mobility and posture.  It helps to prevent low back pain, and helps with a stiff neck and shoulders. It works your spine, hips and shoulders in coordinated flexion and extension and gets rid of excessive tension, loosening up your stiff back, neck and shoulders.       Figure 1.  Cats and Dogs Exercise Video. Steps Get down on all fours with your weight...

This exercise stretches the front of your torso, helps to improve your spine mobility, and reduces stiffness in your lower and middle back.           Figure 1.  Cobra Exercise Video.   Steps Lie on your front with your hands placed on the floor outside of your shoulders. Keep your shoulders in good posture (don’t shrug) and your pelvis on the floor. With your hands pushing on the ground, gently lift yourself...

The core disassociation exercise teaches you how to move your upper torso (chest and shoulders) independently of your pelvis and hips, helping you to both create and close the separation of your shoulders and pelvis for power and consistency in your golf swing. The associated Pelvic Disassociation Exercise can help you to feel and isolate the abdominal musclesThe abdominal muscles are a group of muscles that extend from various places on the...

The figure 8 exercise provides a safe and controlled means of learning how to move your pelvis, for enhanced mobility and coordination in your lumbar spine, improving your posture and control. This is a more challenging version of the Pelvic Thrust on an Exercise Ball exercise, requiring you to more precisely control movements of your pelvis. This exercise uses an exercise ball, often referred to as a Swiss ball, and also known as a balance...

There are a number of exercises in the mobility exercise section of the exercise library that will help to promote spinal mobility and proper posture at setup. Many amateur golfers have a lack of mobility in the spine and pelvis, resulting in them appearing to be slumped and rounded forwards in the shoulders and lower back, and making it difficult to adopt the correct “flat-back” posture at setup — see Full Swing 101 – Setup: Basic...

The muscles used to perform heel touches help you to maintain correct golf posture, holding your pelvis and lower spine in the proper address position, and maintaining proper angles throughout the golf swing. This is an easier version of the Straight-Leg Heel Touch exercise.       Figure 1.  Heel Touch Exercise Video.   Steps Start by lying on your back, with both legs in the air, your hips and knees bent 90 degrees....

The pelvic disassociation exercise teaches you how to move your pelvis independently of your shoulders, helping you to both create and close the separation of your pelvis and shoulders for power and consistency in your golf swing.           Figure 1.  Pelvic Disassociation Exercise. Steps Start by standing with the perfect stance width and spine angle.  See Drill 102 – Perfect Golf Stance Width and Ball...

The pelvic thrust exercise provides a safe and controlled means of learning how to move your pelvis, for enhanced mobility and coordination in your lumbar spine, improving your posture and control. You will learn to feel the difference between a flexed, extended and neutral spine position. This exercise uses an exercise ball, often referred to as a Swiss ball, and also known as a balance ball, fitness ball, gym ball, stability ball, Swedish...

This exercise demonstrates the posterior pelvic tilt, which helps to strengthen the muscles in your lower abdominal spine and stabilise your lower back. It will help you learn how to position your pelvis properly, which is important for good posture and in preventing back pain.       Figure 1.  Posterior Pelvic Tilt Exercise Video.   Steps Start by standing with the perfect stance width and spine angle.  See Drill...

This is a more challenging version of the Heel Touch exercise, requiring much more strength and control from the same muscles. The muscles used to perform heel touches help you to maintain correct golf posture, holding your pelvis and lower spine in the proper address position, and maintaining proper angles throughout the golf swing.     Figure 1.  Straight-Leg Heel Touch Exercise Video.   Steps Start by lying on your back,...