LPGA Golf Clinics for Women: At Home Workout

 

 

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Meredith Steyer ~NASM-CPT
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Personal Trainer ~Pennsylvania State University
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At Home Exercises
No Gym? No Excuse! Pump Up Your Golf Muscles...

If you've been putting off exercise until you join a gym, this is the workout for you. You can do these exercises in the comfort of your own home at your own pace, whether it's daily or 3 to 5 times a week. Won't take more than 30 minutes and come golf season, you'll be glad you did!
 
Exercise        Repetitions   Sets
Lunges 15-20 each side   3
Plie Squats  15   3
Push Ups max 3
Superman 20   3
Bridges 20   3
Planks max time   3
Lying Twists 20 Each side 3

Lunges
Muscles Targeted: Quads, Glutes, Hamstrings
Stand up tall with your feet together. Take a big step forward with your right foot. Now, bend both knees and slowly drop straight down. Make sure your right knee does not go over your toes and you do not hit the ground with your left knee. Squeeze your glutes and pull your left leg to your right leg by driving your right heel into the ground as you straighten your leg. Repeat exercise with left leg.


Plie Squat
Muscles Targeted: Glutes, Quads, Adductors
Begin with a wide stance and your toes turned comfortably outward. Keeping your core tight and your back straight, make sure your knees stay aligned with your toes as bend at your knees into a squat. Return to the starting position without locking your knees and then repeat.

 

Push Up
Muscles Targeted: Chest, Triceps
Start with your hands a little more than shoulder level apart extended at chest level. Now, begin lowering your body making sure you stay as stiff as a board.  When your elbows are bent to 90 degrees push straight up returning to your starting position.

Superman
Muscles Targeted: Lower back
Lie face down on a mat with your legs together and your arms stretched out in front of you. Together raise your upper and lower body off the floor and then lower back down to the starting position and repeat.

Bridge
Muscles Targeted: Butt, Lower back, Abs
Lie face up on a mat with your arms at your sides and knees bent. Lift your hips off the mat by squeezing your gl
utes. Slowly lower back down to the starting position and repeat.

Plank
Muscles Targeted: Abs
Lie face down on a mat with your elbows and forearms underneath your chest.   Come up onto your elbows and toes to form a bridge with your body. Make sure to keep your core and legs tight.

Lying Twist
Muscles Targeted: Oblique
Lie on your back on the floor. Put a stability ball in between your legs. With your arms out to your sides and raise your legs straight in the air. Lower your legs to one side as far as your hips will twist. Keeping your core tight, raise your legs back up and to the opposite side and repeat.

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