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.

Your core including the supporting muscle groups such as shoulders, arms, and forearms help supply you with the power you need to create clubhead speed. This exercise has the same movement pattern used in the golf swing.

Directions for the Wood Chop Exercise

The wood chop exercise is a great way to work on your core muscles while increasing your heart rate to improve endurance.

Stand, holding an exercise ball, golf club or hand weight with your arms extended.
Squat down as you touch the ball to the ground by your right leg.
Stand up and extend your arms as you press the ball up to the sky over your left shoulder.
Return to the squat position as you touch the ball to the ground again by your right leg.
Do 8 to 10 repetitions on one side and then repeat for the same amount of repetitions on the opposite side.

Karen Palacios-Jansen

Contact Karen Palacios-Jansen and See More Posts

Warm Up and Create Power with Lateral Bounding

Learning to shift your weight properly is key to adding power to your swing. Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates the Lateral Bounding exercise.

Improve the Weight Shift in Your Swing with Side Lunges

Karen Palacios-Jansen demonstrates how side lunges as a warm-up exercise will help your weight shift out on the golf course.

How to Do Power Squats for More Speed and Distance

Karen Palacios-Jansen and Christina Ricci show you how to increase your leg strength and flexibility for golf with the power squats exercise.

TOP

4999 registration form new member drive womens golf 0424

Improve Every Part of Your Golf Game header 1200 0424

worlds largest online community of women golfers 1200

WOMENSGOLF.COM is owned and operated by the Women’s Golf Group, the world’s most popular online community of women golfers. Right now you can become a Women’s Golf Member for less than $1 a week with instant and unlimited access to all lessons, groups, lesson requests and bookmarking.

This is absolutely brilliant! I’ve been wanting some ideas for golf exercises - and these are perfect! Thank you 😊

I just joined , maybe a week ago. LOVE IT. Love all the lessons and that you can search for. You can search specific topics and pull up several lessons.

I don’t know what I would do without your site - it has been so beneficial to improving my game!

The advantage over other lesson websites are the member groups: the lesson one for a quick lesson or two and the fun of feeling connected to female golfers around the world through the social group.

I have improved my game greatly with your lessons online. I would recommend them to anyone wanting to play better golf! Thank you for a great website!

A Great New Lesson Posted Every Day!

Hi Jane, just wanted to say hi and let you know how much I enjoy and have learned from this site. I always talk about how informative this site is with the girls in my golf group.

In the last 30 days there have been 264 posts and 1243 comments.

I just wanted to tell you that I LOVE the little lesson/tip snippets (side hill lie, and out-to-in slice fix were both awesome). They are so so helpful!

30 New Lessons Available for Members in the last Month

I’m really enjoying this membership. The lessons are helpful and the camaraderie is unique and special.

I joined a couple of weeks ago. I really like that the lessons are short and only address one thing. So often you are tied in knots after getting too many instructions. Glad I joined.

A year later...and I still love all I’m learning from this group!

I am really impressed with Women's Golf and couldn't be more pleased with my membership and all of the great resources I can access.

Thank you for such a wonderful resource! I just joined and am so thankful for you and the other women golfers in this community.

I just wanted to pop on and tell you how grateful I am that you have a lesson on the scorecard and handicap! I am really enjoying your website and the facebook social group.

Membership Info