Too bulky for golf?

[RetroJFrancisco]

I've been training for 4 - 5 months now, fairly intense stuff, I naturally find it easy to put on both fat an muscle..

Do you think there is a point when you simply become too bulky or does weight lifting kill flexibility for golf ?? I dont take steroids and never would, I take natural supplements.

I'm looking to turn professional and go on some mini tours around the country in April, but exercise in the form of heavy weight lifting and cardio has become part of my daily routine..

I know Mcilroy has started training weights and I have read his work out regimes but he's not in it to put on muscle, I am, and lets be serious, he's not exactly muscular.

Would be interesting to get peoples takes on this, cheers.

[SavvySwede]

If your yardages are going down then you are doing something wrong. But unless you are bigger than some of the long drive guys the issue will be with ROM,not bulk.

[RetroJFrancisco]

  SavvySwede said:

If your yardages are going down then you are doing something wrong. But unless you are bigger than some of the long drive guys the issue will be with ROM,not bulk.

Hey, Cheers for the response..

By ROM do you mean range of movement? For some reason I too feel heavy lifting kills flexibility, I could be way off, but it just seems to make sense.

Flexibility is obviously also massively important to a golfer trying to make some money out of the game

[SavvySwede]

Yeah, range of motion. Just look at Jason Zuback the dude is huge and flexible.

[billchao]

  RetroJFrancisco said:

For some reason I too feel heavy lifting kills flexibility, I could be way off, but it just seems to make sense.

That's a myth. Look at Olympic lifters, they're strong and flexible. Trained muscles are stronger and stretch better than untrained muscles.