Have you ever thought about what yoga could bring to your golf game? Yoga for golfers adapts the movements and breathing of traditional yoga to the needs of the golfer.
What can yoga offer? Better posture at address, improved mobility and control in your stroke, and greater endurance on the course. Yoga can help you up your game. It also helps to prevent injury and let you feel more relaxed and focused when the pressure is on.
How Does Yoga Help?
The golf swing is a complex, high-power explosive rotational movement. A great swing requires flexibility, strength, and precision through an enormous range of motion.
Yoga improves strength and functional flexibility with poses and dynamic movements. This carries over to greater range of motion, power, and club control. Standing yoga poses help to improve balance. They create a sense of connection to the ground that allows you to generate force for a more powerful swing.
Because golf is a one-sided sport, there is a natural tendency toward muscle imbalance. Repetitive movements on just one side of the body can lead to postural issues, discomfort, and sometimes injury. Yoga moves the body back into balance by bringing more flexibility and freedom to tight, restricted muscles, and more strength to underused ones. A body in balance also means relief—from neck and shoulder tension, low back pain, and wrist strain.
Golf is among the most mentally challenging of sports. Time between holes to mull over the pitfalls of the last shot, pressure to choose the right club and strategy, bad lies, staying calm at address—these are just a few of the challenges that come into play each day on the course.
Yoga can help you level up your inner game. Breathing quality affects stress level, heart rate, and mental focus. In yoga, breath work is used to help calm the body and improve focus and endurance. Out on the course, greater breath awareness and yogic breathing can help you instantly reduce muscle tension and mental stress.
Bring Yoga to Your Game
A La Carte Yoga offers private and group, sport-specific yoga instruction for golfers. No previous yoga experience is needed and no special clothing required (comfortable shorts and a t-shirt work nicely). Individual mobility and strength assessments are provided for private sessions. The Yoga for Golfers program improves:
- Core strength
- Balance
- Flexibility and Mobility
- Focus and Breath Work
- Injury Prevention
Call us today for more information at (508) 444-2601.