If you have ever suffered from back pain associated with golf, or want to improve your technique, then you can perhaps look at the new premier exercise of the top golfers, and in fact any top athlete, pilates!

Pilates can help golfers to condition themselves for the rigours of golf swings and improve their techniques to become more powerful and precise in their swings.  Instead of practising the same golf movements over and over, pilates for golf aims to change the mechanics of your swing, by concentrating on particular muscles and movement. If you combine some of pilates core principles of strength, flexibility, balance and mental focus, you can help improve your golf swing.

The types of things pilates golf will look at are posture and making compensations for posture. This enables the body to be balanced and primed for the perfect swing. Having a set of quality hybrid golf clubs can also help in achieving that!

Also, along with improving your technique, any reoccurring golf injuries or repetitive strains are also help by learning pilates for golf.

You can find a wide range of books on pilates, including pilates for golf, in our store. Also try out our section on Pilates DVDs which is constantly being updated.