by Andre Sanchez

Its important that you know how to train with a golf fitness DVD if you travel around a lot. It is when traveling that your game can drop off a bit due both to a lack of practice and a subtle reduction in your rotational strength and flexibility.

Your golf swing is a complex twisting rotational movement that does not come naturally to the human body, and unless you regularly carry out exercises to retain a high degree of flexibility, your joints and muscles could stiffen up very slightly, and make a big difference to your swing.

When on the road, or even on vacation or on tour, you might not have the time to call off at a golf course and take an hour or two on the practice range. You probably don’t travel around with much fitness equipment either, but you could take a golf fitness DVD that will enable you to carry out the right exercises needed to keep you fit for golf.

If you are on the road a lot, and spend a fair amount of spare time at nights in hotel rooms, then a golf DVD could come in handy to keep your body in trim for your next round. Maybe all you need are a few stretches every now and then to keep your body supple and your muscles and joints flexible. Perhaps a few simple strengthening exercises would come in handy to make sure that you don’t lose ten or twenty yards in your drive next time you are out on the course.

This is especially true if you are not as young as you used to be. The problem with age is that it creeps up on you gradually, and you only notice when you find yourself hitting a few more bogies than you used to, or starting to find it difficult to clear that stream as easily as you once did. You get a few more aches and pains after your round that you didn’t used to have. That’s when you need to keep on top of your fitness training, even when traveling and when on vacation. A fitness DVD is ideal for that.

However, make sure that you get a decent golf fitness video. Make sure that every routine is demonstrated from start to finish. None of this showing you one repetition and then telling you to carry out fifty. I hate it when that happens: you have to keep starting and stopping the video player and it can be real nuisance. Make sure that the instructor does it with you and doesn’t get lazy.

There is a very large choice in golf fitness DVDs, in quality as well as quantity! The tour professionals carry them around and use them in their rooms at night. Not all can afford to take personal trainers around them – heck, most never make the cut let alone that amount of dough, yet even the poorer of the pros have to remain at peak fitness, or they may as well give the circuit up and go back to running a club shop. You can use a golf video at home, at the office or in a hotel room – anywhere, in fact, that there is a player. You can even use a portable video player and then you can watch it anywhere at all.

The exercises shown on the DVD must be golf specific. They must exercise the muscles and joints you use when playing golf. They are no good if they involve lifting weights, or are nothing but demonstrations of how to use all these machines you find in gyms. You haven’t got a gym when you are on the road! The exercises should offer elements of strength training without heavy weights, a few stretches and flexibility exercises. Especially rotational flexibility. If your golf DVD doesn’t offer all three of these, then take it back to the store.

There are plenty of simple flexibility and stretching exercises you can carry out without needing fancy equipment, but it is probably worthwhile looking through the golf fitness video quickly before you take it with you in case there is some simple equipment that you might need. A medicine ball, dumbbell and some exercise tubing won’t be difficult to fit into your car, and there are a whole host of exercises involving these that are relevant to golf training.

There is no doubt that regular fitness training can not only immeasurably improve your golf game, but also keep you in tip top condition so that your game doesn’t start to fade off. Fitness is very important in golf as you are likely aware, and a golf fitness DVD will enable you to maintain your highest level of fitness through repetitions of simple exercises involving very little or no equipment.

How to Train with a Golf Fitness DVD was originally published at http://www.golfplayernow.com