Every golfers power (and stability!) muscle number one – glutes! If their are not strong enough sadly your hip flexors are more than eager to take over, rob the function from your glutes and/or even shut them down creating lots of problems and compensations on your swing and also in everyday life.

Gluteus Maximus (butt muscle) is a primary muscle of hip extensions and often times surprisingly weak. Low back pain and soreness in the groin area may be signs of the weakness in the abs and your hip flexors have stolen the work from the glutes as well.

Another clue is when you are not able to keep your feet and legs down when performing a sit up or roll up. Also in situations when your abs aren’t strong enough, the hip flexors will happily take over the task and get the job done for you – creating havoc and compensations even deeper in your motor programming and movement patters! This simple exercise is very easy and simple and can be done almost anywhere and will re-educate your glutes how to work and fire correctly with in simple movement pattern.