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  Hard Core Conditioning Series-Part 2
Katherine Roberts

As we roll out the second of our four week core conditioning series, my intention is to provide you with a comprehensive, innovative, exercise program.

Last week we targeted the upper and lower abdominals with the plank position and knee to chest crunches. By this week you should have practiced these exercises at least three times and will be feeling the effects in your abs.

This week's series focuses on the obliques by using a side plank position. You can see in the following pictures that my obliques muscles engage even before I lift my hips by using my core. Focus on the lower abs, pulling them towards the spine, engage the obliques and then lift the hips. Keep the extraneous movements to a minimum. Similarly in the golf swing, the movement is compact, centered and powerful.

This week’s series is to be added to what you have already started in week one. The number of exercises and areas of the core abdominals that are worked will increase each week as progress to week four.

Oblique Lifts

Par Level

 

Par Level: Sitting on your left hip bring the heels behind you, knees bent at a 90 degree angle. Place the left hand directly under the shoulder. Inhale, focusing on the abdominals as described above, exhale lifting the hips up. Repeat five times, hold for a count of ten and switch sides.

Oblique Lifts

Birdie / Eagle Level

 

Set up the body the same way as the Par level but extend the legs out straight. Engage the abdominals and lift the hips off the floor, balancing the body on the outside edge of the left foot and the left hand. Repeat ten times, hold for a count of ten and switch sides.

See Part 3 of The Hard Core Conditioning Series

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Click Here to Check Out All of Katherine's Products Katherine Roberts is founder and president of Katherine Roberts Yoga for Golfers, a 10-year-old publishing and consulting company based in Scottsdale, Ariz. Yoga for Golfers is dedicated to helping people achieve balanced performance both on and off the course. As the fitness expert and frequent host for The Golf Channel, she has appeared on the Big Break, Makeover Challenge, Your Game Night-see her tips every Monday night, and the PGA Merchandising Show Recap. Katherine is an accomplished author and producer with five DVDs and one book--Yoga for Golfers (McGraw-Hill)--in publication with a new book scheduled for release in early 2006. In addition, Katherine is a Top 25 Instructor and fitness expert for ESPN Golf Schools and a member of Golf Magazine's Health and Fitness Panel.  She personally teaches golf fitness with Hank Haney (Tiger’s Coach) at the Hank Haney Signature Golf Schools and she is the first yoga/flexibility conditioning expert in Major League Baseball and trains the San Diego Padres. Click Here for More Golf Fitness Articles

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