FITNESS. Ask any average Joe what encompasses fitness and you'll get the imagery of people involved in rigorous sweat-dripping activities; the gym and team sports come to mind. However, if you spoke of the word GOLF and FITNESS in the same sentence, you'd probably be met with furrowed eyebrows. To the general public, golf is often perceived as a slow-paced leisure activity but do not be mistaken. To play golf well requires lots of upper body movement as well as core strength (Harmon, 2010).
There's a saying that in order to be at peak performance in a sport, you should exercise to play the sport rather than playing the sport for exercise.
Before we talk about what are some of the exercises you can do to strengthen your "core", we need to what is the "core". So what exactly is the "core"? The core refers to more than just your abdominal muscles. In short, the core refers to everything that provides stability to your arms and legs; think back, hips, and spine. Strengthening the core should be a priority should you want to up your game and prevent those niggling injuries. Let's put it this way, the stronger your core, the stronger your swing and drive.
Some simple yet effective core exercises we can do are: