Fitness
Having a tension-free, relaxed golf swing is, in my opinion, the key to producing a powerful, consistent golf swing. Here's why.
This has been one of the biggest breakthroughs of the year so far for me. Again, it's easy to just dismiss this concept and go, "yeah, yeah, tension-free, loose-as-a-goose, blah, blah, blah, . . . heard it all before."
How this really started to make sense was thinking about swinging the club versus hitting at the ball. I knew I was constricted somehow and was not maximizing my potential. There was no speed "through the ball" and an abbreviated follow through that left all my power behind ...
Golf nutrition and the use of supplements to increase performance is, in my opinion, very often misunderstood. In this article we will be exploring some of those myths.
Any high performance athlete is always looking for the edge. Whether that is instruction, biomechanics, fitness, mental game or nutrition.
We try to cover all these at GDB. I am actually doing a fair degree of research on cutting-edge golf performance (including all of the above) which I will be sharing in the months to follow.
Today, I wanted to talk a bit about golf nutrition. I mean, think about it for a minute. What do you think of when it comes to golf nutrition? ...
We strive to bring as much up-to-date and cutting edge golf information that we can to our readers. To that end, I recently interviewed renowned ophthalmologist, Joseph Fishkin, on vision and how it effects more than you know about your golf game (particularly as you get older).
As you know, clear vision is key to the sport of golf. However, when golfers reach age 45, an age-related vision condition sets in called presbyopia, making it difficult to focus from near to far. With impaired vision it's hard to: read the green, line up with the ball, and putt with accuracy.
Until now, golfers have been using bifocals, trifocals or progressive glasses. ...
Proprioception is a term you might not know but it's one you may want to get familiar with if you're serious about improving your golf game. Here's why.
Funny, I have heard about proprioception before but never paid much attention to it. But I was reminded of it watching the Sean Foley video in our video spot in our right hand column. (Note: the video I mentioned has been moved from this column but you can now check it out here:
Sean Foley Proprioception Drill)
He mentions a balance drill and referenced the importance of proprioception and how it's harder than you think. You'll have to watch the vid to see ...
In my opinion, today's mainstream golf teacher is very one-dimensional and can only help players wishing to improve in a very limited way. I know a lot of pros will highly disagree with this view but hear me out.
I'm not saying it's they're fault, per say, but a LOT more goes into playing excellent golf than trying to flatten someone's golf swing or having them line up square.
What if you go to a golf lesson and the instructor wants to to complete a fuller turn but come to find out your body cannot get into that position easily? it might be more of a biomechanics issue than a ...
http://youtu.be/YbCkGdl63Ug
Understanding how rotational golf power works and how it is the foundation for hitting a golf ball farther and more accurately is the (I believe) missing key to creating a more powerful golf swing. Because who doesn't want to hit a golf ball 30 yards longer?
As a lot of you know John and I have done a number of posts on golf and fitness. It's an area of extreme interest for us and one that we are happy to share with our fellow golfers.
Not sure if you are familiar with
myTPI but if you're not, you better get familiar with it. It's one of the best golf resources on the web. Period. Here's how they describe themselves:
MyTPI.com is the ...
Swinging a weighted golf club is supposed to loosen your muscles, increase flexibility, add swing speed, increase distance and also tone/build muscle. But does it really?
I have always been on the fence about this ever since I read an article long ago about Hall of Fame baseball player Stan Musial who never swung a weighted or multiple bats because he felt they altered his feel and therefore timing.
I just took it for granted that swinging a heavier bat/club was nothing but beneficial. It was just one of those things that was so common that it didn't enter the realm of my consciousness to question it but somehow the Musial connection ...
I've been putting a lot of time into getting my core into shape before the new golf season. Exercising the core is critical if you want to increase your golf power.
To that end, I just ordered a
GoFit Medicine Ballfrom Amazon. Note: It's the kind that bounces and you can throw against the wall! I'm planning on doing a lot of rotational exercises that are featured in
Core Performance Golfby Mark Verstegen.
I will keep you up-to-date on the progress of my training. I have never done a lot of ...
Not sure about you but I have never really given the neck much thought in terms of exercise in developing a sound golf swing. But due to my recent golf mechanical assessment, I have realized just how important the neck is is a number of ways. We'll look at some of those in today's piece and also include a number of exercises*
This is straight from the latest edition of,
The Golf Biomechanics Manual, by Paul Chek, of the well known C.HE.K. Institute.
"The neck is often overlooked as a key link in golf performance. The importance of this vital link exists in the fact that the head carries instruments vital ...
As I mentioned in my last post,
Off to the Golf Biomechanics Doctor, I had my first Golf Biomechanics Assessment in Boston this past weekend and, man, was it an eye-opener! It completely changed my view of exactly how critical biomechanics are to a solid, repeatable golf swing.
Not knowing exactly what to expect was part of the excitement in doing a test but I did have a *general* idea of what some of those test were because I purchased the
Golf Biomechanic's Manual (make sure you get the latest edition) from the C.H.E.K. Institute (I see they have it on Amazon but it's the older edition)
Once I ...
