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Golf Exercise – Wrist Cock – Swing Weight

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You want more power in your golf swing? Want an easy exercise(s) to quickly see improvement in distance? It’s all in the wrists! Yes…they say over 70%+ of your speed comes from the hinging and unhinging of your wrists.

The only problem with that is many golfers, especially older ones have both weak and inflexible wrist joints, and they cannot get or maintain their wrist cock (lag) during the downswing. This is a HUGE power loss for golfers with these limitations.

I’ll bet when you hear power and distance, you wouldn’t think wrists would you? Just picture hitting a golf ball, baseball, or throwing anything without a wrist cock with lag before release. It would be a powerless movement with no speed.

There’s a simple exercise I do for wrist strength, and I use my weighted golf club to speed up the strength improvement, but if you don’t have one, you can use an 8 iron or even your 3 iron. The longer the club the more the resistance on your wrist and forearm.

The exercise is so easy and simple you can do it anywhere. In your living room. At your office. Even when you travel (with your clubs that is).

I call it Golf Wrist Cocks.

Grab a single club as stated above. Start with say a pitching wedge and work your way up to a 3 iron.
Your arm hangs at your side. Grab club and let head rest on the ground at your side.
Cock your wrist upward to raise the clubhead off the ground as high as it can go while leaving arm at side.
Slowly lower to ground uncocking your wrist.
Repeat this 15 times and switch hands.
You will feel a burn in your forearms.
Do this 2-3 times a week and you’ll be plowing through the ball at impact!