Claude Brousseau’s Best Golf Fitness Tips to Build Power, Mobility, and Better Movement

If you’ve spent any time in the V1 GOLF app, you’ve likely seen lessons, drills, or swing studies from Claude Brousseau, a trusted PGA Master instructor. Claude is a Golf Digest Best in State teacher, a long-time V1 Coach, and one of the most respected voices in the industry when it comes to making golf simpler, more athletic, and more efficient for every player.

One thing Claude consistently emphasizes is that a better golf swing starts with better fitness, specifically more mobility, stronger rotational muscles, and a stable, well-trained core. No matter your age or current skill level, the right golf-specific fitness can unlock more speed, improve sequencing, and help you play pain-free for years to come.

Below, we’ve rounded up some of Claude’s best golf-fitness exercises from his V1 GOLF drill videos. Each is simple, effective, and designed to build real swing performance, not just general strength.

Oblique Muscle Exercise: Build Speed from the Ground Up

Using a large stability ball, lie sideways so your upper body is supported while your lower body stays anchored. Hold a small medicine ball and rotate your torso back and forth across your midline.

This movement targets your oblique muscles, which are the engine behind rotational power. Strong obliques allow you to unwind the torso faster through impact, translating directly into longer drives and more powerful iron shots.

Twisting Stability Ball Exercise: Improve Flexibility + Rotation

This drill uses the same equipment, but instead of lying on the stability ball, you sit tall on it. With a medicine ball in hand, twist your upper body from side to side while keeping your lower body stable.

This improves both rotational flexibility and core stability, two traits that help you maintain posture throughout the swing and create a wider, more connected turn. It’s one of Claude’s go-to drills for players who tend to “stand up” or lose their spine angle.

Core Power Lunge With a 4-Pound Medicine Ball

Start in a low lunge stance (right foot forward for right-handed golfers, left foot forward for left-handed) while holding a light medicine ball. Rotate the ball backwards, loading the trail side and engaging the deep core muscles that control your swing’s coil.

This is one of the best exercises for creating more torque, coil, and explosiveness, especially for golfers who struggle to separate the upper and lower body. A stronger load leads to a more dynamic, athletic downswing.

Flexibility + Mobility Warm-Up: Better Movement in Minutes

Lie on your back, raise one leg straight toward the sky, then slowly rotate it across your body in the opposite direction. This stretch targets hamstrings, lower back, spine, hips, and glutes.

Claude stresses the importance of slow breathing through the stretch and allowing the body to relax into the position. Improved mobility in these areas increases your ability to rotate fully, maintain posture, and finish your swing without strain.

This is a perfect pre-round or daily mobility routine that keeps you moving well.

 

If you want to move better and strike the ball more efficiently, adding a few of Claude’s drills into your weekly routine is one of the easiest upgrades you can make.

You can find all of Claude Brousseau’s drills, lessons, and swing breakdowns directly inside the V1 GOLF app, available anytime you need coaching, inspiration, or a pre-range warm-up.

Claude Brousseau is also offering online lessons, so you can get great, personalized feedback on your swing from anywhere. Check out more here.

 

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