Golf Fitness Series Wrist Strength With Mike Cahill

This video and article focuses on a quick and easy to do pre-round warm up stretching strengthening exercise we use at our men’s and women’s golf schools in Palm Springs, CA.  The exercise is useful for students just beginning to develop wrist strength for golf all the way to seasoned professional looking to prevent repetitive stress injuries. In particular we use this exercise at our women’s golf schools to develop the wrist strength to hold the club on plane in the back swing.

Men’s and Women’s Golf Schools – Why should I stretch and and strengthen my wrist?

During the golf swing the body builds up massive amounts power through then turning of the body. This built up power exhibits strong forces on various muscles and tendons in the body.  The wrist is not excluded in these forces as it is that last link before the power is transferred to both the golf club and the ball.  To prevent injury, add consistency, accuracy and distance to our student shots we focus on build up wrist strength for both our men’s and women’s golf schools.

Here the golf club is in the starting position.

The shaft is pointing toward the sky at the midpoint of the exercise.

Men’s and Women’s Golf Schools – How to stretch and strengthen the wrist.

I love using this exercise because it works for everyone, old to young.  The weights being used are golf clubs and these weights can be taken down to nil or added to virtually a limitless amount.  We begin our men’s and women’s golf schools with a series of exercise every morning and this is part of that golf fitness routine.

1. Begin by holding a golf club (pw-3 iron is fine) halfway down the shaft in one hand with your arm fully extended in front of you at shoulder  height.  The shaft should being level with the ground and should be gripped as it is in during the golf swing.

2.  Keeping your arm fully extended begin to twist your wrist and make the club shaft point toward to the sky continue until the club is level with the ground pointing the opposite direction you began from.  Now slowly return it to it starting position.

3. Repeat this process 10 times with each wrist.  The exercise should be done in a slow controlled manner as to fight the force of gravity on the club head.

4. At our men’s and women’s golf schools we have stronger players grip the club at he butt of the grip with 1-3 clubs.  If 1 feels too easy try 2 or 3 clubs or more.

Complete this exercise before every practice session and round of golf and very quickly you will see higher level of wrist strength.  For more info attend one of our men’s or women’s golf school in Palm Springs, CA.