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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'.
Can You Maintain Posture In Your Golf Swing...??? (Try This Test)
You would be hard pressed to find a golf magagzine these days where one of the 'tips from the tour' doesn't mention something about how the Pro works hard on 'Maintaining their Posture' throughout their golf swing...
Today I want to give you a little insight into what that means exactly...
And then we are going to branch off into a Super-Important TPI Screen ...
That you can try at home ...
And that could give you an insight at to why YOU struggle to 'Maintain Your Posture' ...
So How Would You Know …? (Golf Injuries)
So how would you know …?
If you are about to get injured playing golf …
The injury could be simply annoying.
Performance reducing / score increasing.
Or, I hate to say it, at worst an injury could be career ending.
But is there a way to predict it …?
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 ...
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...?????
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.