Fitness with Averee: Stretch your hips for a better backswing

Proper weight transfer in the golf swing often starts with opening up your hips.

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For many amateur golfers, making a full turn starts with opening up your hips, allowing your weight to transfer to your right side (if you’re a right-handed golfer). However, many golfers lack hip mobility.

Averee Dovsek, Golfweek‘s fitness guru, is reporting from Xymogym in Orlando, Florida, with a great stretch to increase your hip mobility. This will, among other things, help increase speed in the golf swing, resulting in more distance — and who doesn’t want more distance?

Watch this episode of “Fitness with Averee” above and check here for previous episodes.

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