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5 Minute Physical Warm Up

The 5 minute warm up can be used to get blood flowing into your key muscles of your hips, your trunk, and your shoulders. By warming the core muscles, you will increase overall circulation to the rest of the body. If you have any specific needs, then other areas to warm up would be the ankles, knees, wrists, elbows, or neck. In the general warm up, complete 5-10 repetitions of each movement, holding no more than 5 seconds with each movement.

  • Leg Swings: Forward/Backward, Side-to-Side, Circles
  • Pelvic Rotation:
  • Thorax Rotation
  • Pelvic tilt
  • Shoulder Saws: Forward/ Backward: palms up, palms down
  • Punching Biceps: Shoulders Side-to-Side, palm up, palm down
  • Push Pulls: Circles, Crawl
  • Palm Presses
  • Club Rotation Toe Touches
  • Wide Grip Golf Swings: Righty and Lefty

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Playlists: At Home Training, Warm Up Routines

Tags: Mental Game, Drill, Beginner

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In this drill video, I'm going to show you how to get warmed up before you hit a bucket

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of golf balls.

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So most people just kind of hop out and shake it off and then start swinging.

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I'm going to show you the important areas we want to get warmed up would be your hips,

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your core and your shoulders.

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So I'm going to run you through a quick warmup for each of those.

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We're going to start with leg swings.

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So you're going to stand on one leg and we're just going to swing the leg back and forth

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leg so five to ten times.

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So I'm going to do it facing away and then facing you just like so.

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So five times trying to stay tall so making sure that your upper body is not bending

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forward backward just like so.

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Next one we're going to do is side to side.

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So again, staying tall going as far across my body as I can and then as far out as I can.

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Good, then we're going to do circles.

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So you're going to bring one leg up.

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You'll notice that we stayed on the same leg.

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We want to kind of work some of the, yes, the fast-wish muscles but we also want to get the

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posture muscles which means we got to stay on it for a couple minutes before we're

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going to really get them activated.

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Circle backward.

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So ten times each way.

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Good.

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And then we're going to do a figure eight.

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So it's kind of a circle.

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I'll turn sideways so you can see.

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So it's going to be a circle circle circle circle circle circle.

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Like that.

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Okay, so five to ten times on the other side.

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So we're going to leg swings forward backward, concentrating on staying tall with our

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core slightly active.

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Good, then we're going to go side to side.

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And this also gets the ankle and the knee warmed up not just the hip because the leg

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that I'm standing on is responsible for a lot of balance.

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This one circle just like so.

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Circle backward.

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And you can use two sticks if you need.

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You can put your hand on a wall on the golf bag.

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You can challenge it and you can do it with nothing here and now we do figure eight.

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Whatever kind of level you're at.

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That's where you should start.

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Good, so we got those hips nice and loose not.

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Now we're going to move on to the core.

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So you're going to take your arms, place them across your shoulders.

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We're going to do lower body rotations back and forth, keeping your core active.

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And we're going to do upper body rotations back and forth.

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So just isolating kind of the upper part of your spine.

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We just did the lower part with the lower rotation.

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Next one we're going to do Helic Tilt.

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Again, aiming for about five to ten repetitions of each one of these exercises.

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Good, so.

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You can hear me breathing.

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We're getting lower body nice and loose, core nice and loose.

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Let's go up to shoulders.

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So just like the legs we did forward backward side side circles.

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Now we're going to do the same thing.

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So forward backward.

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We call these saws.

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We're going to do five palms forward.

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Five palms up.

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Five palms down.

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And when you go backward, I want you to squeeze those shoulder blades together.

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Good, now across or side to side.

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Good, palms down.

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And palms up.

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When I go to work at the US Open and do the events for American Express, we do a lot of

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teaching people how to warm up.

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Next one we'll do with circles.

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And you could do just basic arm circles.

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But I'm going to teach you a fun one.

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But one hand in front, grab with the opposite hand.

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Pull as hard as you can and now wall pulling.

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Make a circle.

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Circle backward.

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Advanced circles.

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Now we're going to go forward and crawl backward.

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Again, aiming for about five of each.

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Back to center.

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Push.

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Now wall pushing.

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We're going to go side to side.

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Or just circles.

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Whatever way you want to do it.

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Circle backward.

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Keep pushing.

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We're going to crawl and crawl backward.

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Okay.

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Feeling pretty good.

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Let's get the wrist.

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So push palms together.

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We're going to go forward and backward just like so.

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Bring your forearms together.

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Press them together as you raise up overhead.

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When it starts to get tough, let them separate.

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Restart.

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Press.

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Good.

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One more.

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Press.

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Now let's do a couple kind of total body things to get.

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You're bringing into great it into loosen up the parts that we have in isolated yet.

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So first one we're going to do shoulders wider than shoulder width apart.

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Arms overhead.

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You're going to turn and then slide the club down towards the outside of your heel.

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Move for a second or two and then back up.

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As a warm up, we're not going to hold these very long.

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There's the difference between warming up and stretching.

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Stretching.

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You're going to hold 20 30 seconds.

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Warming up.

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We're only holding for less than five seconds.

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It's kind of more constant movement just getting blood flowing, waking up the brain,

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all those fun things.

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Last one on this side.

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Good.

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Back to center.

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We're going to get engulf posture.

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You're going to go hold.

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Back swing position for a few seconds and then go to your finish.

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Back swing hold.

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Go to finish.

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Back swing hold.

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Go to finish.

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Now we're going to do lefty backswing.

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Hold.

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Go to lefty finish.

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Good.

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Lefty backswing hold.

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Go to finish.

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Last one.

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Lefty backswing hold.

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Go to finish.

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Now we got a little sweat going.

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We're breathing.

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We're ready to hit some golf balls.

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