pre-habilitation (injury prevention) and compare this to conventional gym programs many golfers fall victim to the "mirror muscle syndrome".

Training the chest, the rectus abdominus (the six pack muscles), anterior delts and arms. These are the muscles on the front of the body we see in the mirror. Favorites of muscle heads everywhere.

Making these areas a priority and overtraining these areas produce what is referred to as an "upper cross syndrome". The shoulders are rounded forward and pulled inward by tightness and constriction in the chest and anterior delt. Conversely the back, the rhomboids and mid trapezious, and the de-accelerators and stabilizers, the posterior delt, the teres minor and infra-spinatus are weak, de-conditioned and stretched forward.

This produces restrictions and poor bio-mechanics in the backswing and follow through. It also creates muscular imbalance and instability in the shoulder.

On a similar note a steady diet of flexion related crunches does not address the essential core musculature. Which is specifically the transverse abdominus, the deep intrinsic stabilizers of the lower back, specifically the multifidus, as well as the glutes, lumbars and lumbar apponeurosis which has a connective relationship to the transverse abdominus. These muscles and tendons surround the body like a wide belt and are essential for producing rotational torque for hitting power and are essential for stabilizing and protecting the lumbar motion segments. They are best trained standing in an integrated manner with rotational work.

In general the whole extensor chain, the back, the glutes, the hips and hamstrings which combined are what win the war against gravity, keep us erect and maintain posture and spinal alignment are far more important in our training and in our overall health, and functional capacity than the "mirror muscles".

Bill Hebson is a personal trainer and sports performance coach. He has worked with a variety of elite Olympic and world class professional athletes.

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