Legs - Mobility and Stability

(Week 8, Golf Performance Boost)
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Day Overview

This session emphasizes hip mobility, balance, and muscular endurance to support golf swing rotation and lower body stability. Movements are controlled and deliberate, promoting joint health and muscular twitch response. The focus is on maintaining mobility and strength with moderate reps and RPE, ensuring joint safety and functional movement.

Exercises

  • Kettlebell Goblet Squats

    Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, holding a kettlebell vertically by the handles close to your chest with both hands, elbows pointing downward. Keep your chest up, core engaged, and back straight. Initiate the movement by hinging at the hips and bending the knees to lower your body into a squat, ensuring your knees track over your toes. Lower until your thighs are parallel to the ground or slightly below, then push through your heels to return to the starting position. Maintain proper form throughout, avoiding rounding your back or letting your knees cave inward. This exercise primarily targets the quadriceps, glutes, and core, while also engaging the upper back and shoulders to stabilize the kettlebell.

    Prescribed Sets:

    Perform 4 sets of 10-12 reps with an RPE of 7. Keep your chest up and knees tracking over toes. Focus on controlled descent and explosive drive upward to enhance lower body power and mobility.

    Working Sets:

    4

  • Walking Lunges

    Begin by standing upright with feet hip-width apart. Step forward with your right foot, lowering your hips until both knees are bent at about 90 degrees. Keep your torso upright and your front knee aligned over your ankle. Push through the heel of your front foot to stand up and bring your back foot forward into the next lunge position, stepping ahead into a new lunge. Continue alternating legs in a walking motion, maintaining proper form throughout. Keep your core engaged, shoulders back, and avoid letting your front knee go past your toes.

    Prescribed Sets:

    Complete 3 sets of 12 reps per leg at an RPE of 7. Maintain upright posture and focus on balance and hip mobility, supporting rotational stability.

    Working Sets:

    3

  • Standing Hip Circles

    Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and hands on hips. Engage your core and keep your back straight. Slowly rotate your hips in a circular motion, making large, controlled circles. Perform the circles clockwise for a set number of repetitions, then switch to counterclockwise. This exercise helps improve hip mobility, flexibility, and stability. Focus on smooth, controlled movements to avoid strain and ensure proper activation of the hip muscles, including the hip flexors, extensors, abductors, and adductors.

    Prescribed Sets:

    Perform 10 circles in each direction for 3 sets, RPE 6. Emphasize controlled, smooth movements to improve hip mobility and rotational range, crucial for golf swings.

    Working Sets:

    3

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