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You may be developing muscle imbalances that affect your health and golf game.  Most people don’t stop to think how often they are in a seated position - in the car, while watching TV, at the dinner table, time on the computer, even reading the newspaper are all in the sitting position.  If you have a desk job, sitting might be your most common posture during the day.  The very job that provides you with the income to purchase equipment to fix that slice may be the source of the slice in the first place!

Sitting for a majority of the day may not only have a negative affect on your health, it can also wreak havoc on your golf swing.  Muscle imbalances that develop can be the underlying source of swing faults and discomfort during your golf game.

In a seated position the muscles in front of your hip, your hip flexors, and those in back of your thigh, your hamstrings, are in a shortened position.  At the same time your gluteals, or buttocks, and front of the thigh muscles, quadriceps, are in a lengthened position.  This leads to the imbalance of some muscles being short or tight while others are inhibited or weak.

If this description sounds like you, here are a few tips you can do right now to begin to address your posture. 

• Follow the 30/30 rule: For every 30 minutes of sitting, get up and move around for at least 30 seconds. 
• Get to the course early to do a proper warm up before golf, and by doing a cool down stretching routine after.
• Be consistent with your strength and flexibility program, especially targeted to core stability and hip mobility.
• Check your posture - chest up, shoulders relaxed, arch of low back supported by back of chair and feet flat on floor.

 A physical assessment by your Physical Therapist can identify and determine the extent of weakness and/or tightness you may have and can help you to develop an exercise program to get you back in balance and out on the course pain free.  Call us today!