
Work Your Core Golf Muscles With the Wood Chop Exercise
Karen Palacios-Jansen builds her core strength with the Wood Chop exercise using the same movement pattern as the golf swing. Good for power, speed, and endurance.
Karen Palacios-Jansen is a LPGA Master Professional, a NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Certified Personal Trainer, a Nike Golf Performance Specialist and Pilates instructor. From 2016-19, Karen served as Vice-President of LPGA Professionals. She is also a part of the LPGA Education Program, training future members in the United States and Korea. Karen has been voted LPGA Teacher of the Year and has been named to the Golf-Digest Magazine Top 50 Fitness Trainer list.
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Karen Palacios-Jansen builds her core strength with the Wood Chop exercise using the same movement pattern as the golf swing. Good for power, speed, and endurance.
Karen Palacios Jansen demonstrates the Windshield Wipers exercise which will give you flexibility and help you rotate your hips in your golf swing.
Karen Palacios-Jansen’s workout warms up your muscles so that you’re able to make a better turn. It helps elongate your muscles, gives you flexibility and rehearses the moves you use in the golf swing.
If you have a hard time lining yourself up, try this quick alignment check from LPGA Professional Instructor Karen Palacios Jansen to make sure that you are aimed at the target.
LPGA Class A Teaching Professional and Certified Personal Trainer Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates how to increase your hip mobility with the hip rotators exercise.
Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates the Lunge with Twist exercise to help you increase strength and mobility in your lower body.
Work on your golf swing and get some exercise at the same time with Karen Palacios-Jansen
Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates her speed skater exercise to move your hips through the full range of motion and build strength in your hamstrings, quadriceps and core.
Karen Palacios-Jansen shows why the top of the grip on a putter is flat and demonstrates how to take the popular reverse overlap putting grip.
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Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates how side lunges as a warm-up exercise will help your weight shift out on the golf course.
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