Tame Your Game "Stability and Core" with Dee Tidwell

Name: Tame Your Game "Stability and Core" with Dee Tidwell
Uploaded: 2013-04-08T18:28:35.000Z
Duration: 3 min 28 s
Description: Tame your Game and TPI fitness instructor Dee Tidwell shows us his favorite moves to improve stability in your golf swing.

Tame your Game and TPI fitness instructor Dee Tidwell shows us his favorite moves to improve stability in your golf swing.

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Instructor: Dee Tidwell
Category: Lessons
Topic: Fitness

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Hey, D. Tidwell here with TamerGame.com. I'm a TPI certified fitness professional here to talk to you about some of my favorite moves as it regards to exercise and golf. These moves will be great to not only help you be a better athlete, but be a better golfer as well. Okay, here are a couple of great exercises to help with stability in the core and mobility in the thorax. One's gonna be a push, the other's gonna be a pull move. We're gonna use a band, so for those of you at home, take your band, place it around somewhere in the middle of your doorframe, maybe even around your doorknob. If you're at the gym, go ahead and use the cable machine like we have here. Either way, the rules are the same. What I'm going to do, I'm going to get into a lunge, mini lunge position. My pelvis is facing forward. My arms are going to be parallel with each other. I'm going to gently draw my belly in to make me stable, keep my chest up, and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to push straight ahead. You can tell that my arms are staying straight ahead and parallel, so I'm not dipping down or anything like this. And the other thing is I'm not allowing my hips to move. That's part of the separation element that's crucial for your game is to be able to keep this still while this is rotating on top. Of course, you would do, say, 8 to 12 reps on this right side and then switch and do the left side for the press. Then you're gonna go right into a pull. So from here, I'm gonna get in the exact same position and we're…