Tame Your Game "Pre Round Warmup" with Dee Tidwell

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• Instructor: Dee Tidwell
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Fitness

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Hey, D. Tidwell here with tameyourgame.com. I'm a TPI golf fitness professional here to talk about how important the warm-up is. So before we go into warm-up, here's a little explanation. We want your muscular system, your skeletal system, and your brain essentially to be ready to play the game of golf. It's very rotary and it requires exquisite control by all 3 mechanisms. So I'm going to show you a couple things that you can do here on the course. I'm here at the beautiful Inverness Golf Club and I'm here about 30 minutes early, so I'm going to show you some quick things here to do, then I'm going to hit the driving range, then I'll be ready to hit that first tee. Okay, so if you're ready, let's get started. First one, grab your cart, a handy tree, handy pole, anything that's vertical, and we're just going to do a nice big pec stretch. Chest being here, pec. What we want to do is just turn away essentially from the shoulder. It's quite simple. That's all we're doing is just really trying to, to get this pec to open up, because if you have tight pecs, which every one of you do, I guarantee you, it will create poor posture. Okay, like I'm in this C posture right here.. So if we can open up this chest, that'll allow for better posture right from the get-go. The other one that we can do is a double lat stretch. Your lats are important, these guys right here, because if they're tight— here's my left lat— if this is tight and it attaches right here on my arm, then what it's going to do is make me stand up or it's going to make me bend my elbows. So…