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What is Golf Fitness?
If you don’t know what ‘Golf Fitness’ actually is, how can you understand the array of BENEFITS it can have on your game?
And if you don’t understand the BENEFITS, why would you ever bother working on your body in an effort to improve your game?
Take this one step further, and I could argue that a lack of knowledge of what Golf Fitness is, is limiting the progression and improvement of thousands of golfers throughout Australia!!
Is this causing your back pain …? (S-Posture)
It's the most common 'pain/injury' complaints of golfers. And it can be super-frustrating for those who suffer regular bouts of it …
It restricts your ability to practice and to play. To get the 'repetitions' in that you need to improve ...
You guessed it. It's lower back pain.
And one of those most common causes of lower back discomfort in golfers is the lower crossed syndrome or 'S-Posture'.
He was in pain ...
He was definitely in pain …and it was affecting his golf.
Until recently ...
If you have been following the PGA Tour of late you may have seen Ryan Moore notch up another victory at the John Deere Classic ...
I didn't give that too much though initially ...
Until he gave credit to none other than his TPI Certified TRAINER ...
Brian Chandler.
I got ahead of myself ...again !!!
On Friday we chatted about the benefits of lifting weights for golfers.
Getting stronger was the theme ...
(As well as addressing media trepidation around the way modern golfers are training).
We encountered some great reasons for a golfer to go about getting strong in the right places ...
Reduced injury risk and more club-head speed were two of the biggies ...
However ...I got ahead of myself ...again ...!!
There's a CRUCIAL step or two that comes well before jumping under a 100kg back-squat for 3 reps ...
Should golfers lift weights ...?
You are probably aware of the Media v Golf Fitness battle that has flared at different times this year ...
In answer to my own subject line, Should golfers lift weights ...?, clearly, I give that a BIG YES.
And I'm just going to quickly summarise a few points from Dr Greg Rose's new article on the TPI site as to WHY I believe its important...
How's Your Rotation ...??? (Try This Test)
The old 'X-Factor' article that gets churned out time and again ...
The general rule: you need to get more torso / shoulder rotation than you get hip rotation.
In other words, you need to SEPARATE your torso / shoulders from your hips ...
BUT... what if that's not physically possible for you at the moment ...?????
And how would you know whether it is or not...?????
The 'feeling' you need for good golf
Have you ever thought about the feeling that shiny, dirty, worn grips transmit through your body ...?
The potential loss of confidence they may bring ...?
So you just can't commit properly to each shot ...?
Sorry, I got ahead of myself ...
I think I may have got ahead of myself on Tuesday ...
(Remember the Justin Thomas, vertical thrust, lower body POWER TEST email ...?)
I jumped in the deep end of Lower Body Power...
When I really should have walked you down the steps and acclimatised in the shallow end for a while.