117: 3 Warm-Up Mistakes That Are Killing Your First Tee Shot

About this episode

Shaun discusses three common warm-up mistakes that negatively impact golfers' performance and increase injury risk.

In this episode, Shaun breaks down the three most common pre-round warm-up mistakes that are costing golfers performance and increasing injury risk and what to do instead. What you'll learn: Mistake #1: Relying on static stretching as your warm-up. Holding stretches before explosive activity tells your muscles to lengthen and relax the opposite of what you want before generating speed and force. Research shows decreases in power output, reaction time, and force production after static stretch...

People in this episode

Host: Shaun Diachkoff

Topics covered

• warm-up mistakes
• golf performance
• injury risk
• static stretching
• pre-round preparation

Keywords

• golf
• warm-up
• static stretching
• performance
• injury risk
• pre-round
• exercise

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