The golf swing is a complex, asymmetrical, full body movement which can be divided into four phases:

   1. Backswing
   2. Downswing
   3. Acceleration through impact
   4. Follow-through

   Golf stresses the body in unique ways that can lead to acute and chronic injuries. For most right handed golfers, the left leading side of the body is more commonly affected and injured than the right or trailing side and vice versa. Golf pilates can minimize golf-related injuries by using the Pilates method of breathing, centering, concentration, control and fluidity.

How would Pilates help improve your Golf swing?

   Pilates improves concentration, focuses on stability, teaches you to breathe correctly, improves "muscle recruitment", produces improved quality and increased efficiency in movement, and balances both sides of the body. All of these help give you great amount of focus for your Golf game, balance in your golf swing, efficient backswing, downswing, and follow-through, also train the body to use the right muscles to do the job to use no more than is needed to limit any injuries.

   Golf Pilates helps to lengthen and strengthen muscles while focusing on core strength. Pilates trains the body and mind to work for overall fitness, to build strength without bulking up, to reshape the body using correct biomechanics and alignment principles, and to employ mental focus and precise movement. Golf Pilates training develops the physical skills needed to help golfers hit the ball farther, straighter, and more accurately.

6 Pilates Principles to Improve Your Golf Swing

   While Pilates exercise has been around since the First World War, it has only recently become popular in the golfing world. One reason why the Pilates method is so perfectly suited to golf fitness has to do with the theoretical principles behind the exercises.