Ball Crunches

Potentially the most important muscle group, the core is composed of all the muscle from hips to shoulders. It effects full body movements as well as maintaining posture throughout movements. The core effects the transfer of energy from the lower to upper body. A strong core improves all aspects of golf from maintaining posture to increasing club head speed as well as helps prevent injuries

Starting position:

Start by sitting on the stability ball. Walk your feet out away from the ball, and lower your body to so that you torso is on the ball, glutes tight to hold the hips up, with knees at 90-degrees. Support head in hands, with out pulling on the head.

Movement:

Keeping your glutes tight to hold your body in place, brace your abdominals, and flex the upper abdominals to raise the head and torso up off the ball towards the ceiling. Followed by controlling your decent back to neutral spine.

Notes: Unlike most crunches that round the bow back, and the torso gets closer to the knees the focus is to lift UP, to activate upper abdominals, as well as lower.