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What I find is most golfers want a fuller range of motion in there body movements and to rid themselves of nagging aches and pains that they often attribute to aging. They want that supple feeling they remember in their youth. Yoga , Pilates are all very effective towards achieving those goals. But simple and correct stretching is more realistic for most folks. The issue is that unlike weight lifting programs or cardio routines where you can see and feel measurable improvement in your conditioning when most people stretch they just don't see or feel measurable improvement. So they give up and say things to themselves like " I'm just not a flexible body type" or some similar reason and continue on with more familiar routines at the gym working on the equipment. Fact is static stretching that we have all been exposed to since your first gym classes in grade school is a wholly inadequate protocol and the older you get the more ineffective it gets.....and that cuts to the core issue why most folks don't like stretching and don't do it. What you have been taught does not work. Hah, sounds like a bunch of bad golf instruction. LOL. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation or PNF is the real deal. Its the owners manual for your body that should have been issued. PNF stretching is a safe and easy to use method that involves stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, then stretching it again to a new range of motion. Once you learn it, and its simple, you will be amazed at the results. Besides PNF the other great stretching protocol is something called Active Isolated Stretching that is pioneered by Aaron Mattes. Like all the great golfing protocols that have been around for decades Active Isolated Stretching has been around since the 1940's. Why more people do not know about it is a mystery. If your interested in learning more then I would suggest Amazon and a book by Aaron Mattes titled: Acitve Isolated Stretching, The Mattes Method. For PNF I think the best offering is a book DVD combo by Robert McAtee, Facilitated Stretching. Either/both will literally change your life and put you firmly back in control of your flexibility and ROM. There are other books and practitioners on this subject, these are just my favorites. Plenty you can Google to learn more. Cheers

Great thread and thought I would add a look at one of professional golfs great hip sliders. Often lumped into the category of "Top 10 Ugliest Pro Swings" he was one of the most accurate drivers of the golf ball on the Champions Tour for years and though his pro career did not start until he was 46...wow.....he has won a dozen times and racked up $13M in winnings. A powerful delivery action and a master at driving his legs and hips down the target line. Really like how he banks his right foot. Great image for anyone working on "" The Biggest Secret" Enjoy Allen Doyle. Here is a good sequence. The camera angle is off as the ball is not that far back but nonetheless you can see the masters move. At 46 he started on the then Nike tour and in 1995 he won three times. Doyle became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour when he turned fifty in July 1998, and won four official money events in 1999 including the Senior PGA Championship . In 2001 he won his second senior major , the Senior Players Championship , and led the tour on the money list. In 2005 he claimed a third major at the U.S. Senior Open , coming behind from a nine stroke deficit with a 63 in the final round. He successfully defended his U.S. Senior Open title in 2006 becoming the oldest U.S. Senior Open Champion at 57 years, I think basically owned most all of the Georgia State Am titles as well