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Protect Your Knees Here’s the catch: To keep them healthy, focus on other joints BY RON KASPRISKE
A widely held belief in fitness, popularised by Gray Cook and Mike Boyle, is that
play golf, doing full-body exercises where the joints have to work in har- mony is a smart way to train, says Ryon Bosscher, a Golf Digest Certified Fitness Trainer. Here are his recommendations for performance-boosting exercises that keep the knees healthy while utilising all three planes of motion in the golf swing: side to side, up and down and rotational.
the body has a series of joints that alter- nate in roles. If joints that are supposed to have good mobility – such as the an- kles or hips – are too limited, then the body recruits a stable joint with less range of motion – such as the knees – to help perform the movement. When stable joints are pushed to their mobil- ity limits, that’s when pain and injuries occur. Taking this into consideration, if you want to protect your knees while you
Depending on your swing characteristics, exercises in one plane might give your more benefit than the others.
TOSS IT! Med-ball throws are great for golfers.
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