Watch this GOLF BAG ESSENTIALS video to learn how a personal trainer packs for a day of golf and considering optimal health and performance! Today, Human 2.0 coach Dan Jones will talk briefly about what things he packs in his golf bag so he can play his best and stay healthy before and after his games.
Dan is a strength and mobility coach here at Human 2.0, an avid golfer, and someone who worked on a golf course for many years. He knows what most people bring with them when they golf – not much but their clubs, he says – and he has a few suggestions to make the day (and days after) a golf game more enjoyable and productive.
Golfing is a sport, a game, a skill – doesn’t matter what you call it. It is a physical activity that puts certain demands on the body, and it should be treated as such. Swinging a club for example, requires a certain amount of shoulder, hip and wrist mobility as well as core and back strength, just to name a few things. You should prepare those muscles and joints accordingly. Bringing something as simple as a BAND FOR STRETCHING in your golf bag will go a long way to helping you get ready physically for the game ahead.
If you are a golfer and you don’t warm up, you are setting yourself up for injury. Especially as you get older, the need for some kind of dynamic warm up (in this cases stretches for golfers or golf warm up drills) before any kind of significant activity is a good idea.
Ask yourself, do you ever feel sore a few days after playing golf? Does your back, knees, shoulders hurt ever? If this is you, this could be a sign from your body that you need a better warm up. It could also be a sign that you are not drinking enough water, hence the reason it’s a good idea to bring a WATER BOTTLE with you to the course. Water more than anything should be part of your golf bag essentials.
What else should you carry in your golf bag? It’s also important to keep energy levels high as you golf, considering you could be out there hours at a time. Taking a SNACK (especially something that will keep you full for a while like nuts, fruit, and/or a smoothie) is ideal.
Humans are made to move, and if we don’t, we get stiff and/or sore, and our muscles get weak. You know the term “use it or lose it”, well it’s true. So if you are the kind of person who is active (plays golf for example) only occasionally or even if you ARE active, but you only play your sport once or twice a week, it is very important for you to warm up at that time – to bring blood flow to those otherwise cold muscles, and to get you primed for what you are about to do.
Now, yes a dynamic stretching warm up (where you are stretching the muscles but not holding any one position for more than a few seconds) is important for everyone to do before they start doing any kind of physical activity that goes beyond walking or very gentle movements. It just makes sense from an injury prevention standpoint, but as we’ve said, it is particularly important for those golfers (especially older ones), and whose bodies are not acclimatized at all to physical activity.
Make sure to check out our other videos from Human 2.0 Coach Dan Jones where he shows you a dynamic warm up for golf that includes a very simple sequence of exercises that he does before he golfs. You can do these exercises for golfers very quickly – it will only take a few minutes – before you start. These dynamic stretches are full body exercises that don’t require any equipment whatsoever (except your clubs) and are good for almost any level. So you really have no excuses to not try them out.
Everyone knows someone who has thrown their back out just turning a funny way and not doing very much at all. If you are inactive or you don’t warm up before some kind of physical activity, then that could be you. Don’t let that happen.
As a medically driven facility, at Human 2.0, we know first hand what happens when people don’t warm up before physical activity. We see them in the physiotherapy and doctor’s office all the time.
Stay tuned to our channel as we add more bodyweight exercises, other strength training, mobility, stretch and flexibility, and conditioning exercises and workouts, and give more health and medicine-related tips.
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Check out some of our other Human 2.0 exercise tutorial videos:
HANGING FOR SHOULDER HEALTH | shoulder exercises for injury prevention | Human 2.0
STRETCHES FOR RUNNERS | easy exercises for injury prevention and better health | Human 2.0
