{"id":27480,"date":"2025-07-18T08:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/external-rotation-shoulder-exercises-and-swing-by-the-professional-jesica-reyes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:25:10","slug":"external-rotation-shoulder-exercises-and-swing-by-the-professional-jesica-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/external-rotation-shoulder-exercises-and-swing-by-the-professional-jesica-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"External rotation, shoulder exercises and swing by the professional J\u00e9sica Reyes."},"content":{"rendered":"

External rotation, shoulders and how it affects your swing<\/h2>\n

External rotation of the player’s shoulder and the ability to maintain scapular stability in the golf stance is key to achieving an efficient and consistent swing. Typically when external rotation is limited, players lose range of motion in the golf stance due to a lack of scapular stability which is intimately related to external rotation and this in turn to the entire mechanics of the scapula, the mobility of both the dorsal and thoracic spine and the rotator muscles.<\/p>\n

Players with very limited external shoulder rotation are easily detected by observing their posture or stance<\/a>, they usually have forward shoulders, kyphosis (very pronounced curvature), C-posture in the golf stance, forward head, in addition to being more likely to make technical errors related to this limitation and can be:
\n1. Loss of posture.
\n2. Chicken wing.
\n3. Angle opposite to the back.
\n4. Anticipated extension.
\nOn the other hand, limitation in external rotation may be the consequence of other factors such as: scapular instability, overdeveloped internal rotators (very tight), capsular tension, injury or weakness in the external rotators or scapular muscle weakness.<\/p>\n

Here are some exercises related to these factors:<\/p>\n

Exercise 1, to improve scapular stability<\/h3>\n