December 13, 2024 • 5 mins
In this episode, our Director of Remote Private Coaching, Garret, reveals the most common misconception golfers have about the body-swing connection and how it limits their distance. Learn why swing changes feel unnatural, how imbalances in upper and lower body strength impact your game, and the importance of improving hip internal rotation for better performance. Discover simple steps to activate your lower body, prevent pain, and unleash explosive swings!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to the Golf Fitness Bomb Squad. I'm your host,
Chris fin and today I have a special guest with me.
He is the man behind the scenes that runs everything
for all of our virtual clients all around the world. Garrett.
Welcome to the show, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Chris, excited to be here. I believe this is your
first appearance. This is my first appearance. No, you have not,
but I pulled him in. He and Josh are director
of coaching. We're having a conversation around some common misconceptions
that our clients are having about the body swing connection,
and so I figured we might as well have that
conversation for everyone else to hear. So what is you
(00:45):
got talking about? Like the most common issue that clients
are misconceptions that clients have body swing connection. What is
it that you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, I think probably the most common misconception that we
see is a lot of golfers come in and they
want to swing a certain way right, or they want
to make a couple of swing chain, but it feels
really really unnatural for them. So the biggest thing that
we tend to see is especially in our power tests,
like we do a vertical jump and we do a
seated chess pass. The vertical jump is used to assess
the lower body power. The chess pass is used to
(01:12):
assess the upper body power. So maybe you're going to
your coach and your coach is saying, hey, get your
hips more active. Make sure you're swinging with the lower body.
But when we test your vertical jump, you're in the
tenth percentile for your.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Age group, which means that you are jumping if there's
one hundred people ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But on the other hand, maybe you're doing your seated
chess pass. You take that medicine ball and you launch
it as far as you possibly can from a seated position,
maybe you're in the ninetieth percentile, meaning there's only ten
people out of one hundred that are better than you
at this. So based on doing this with twelve thirteen
thousand golfers at this point, right, we kind of know
exactly what to expect out of you for your given
swing speed, and we can compare those numbers to your
(01:50):
swing speed. Right, So if your coach is saying, hey,
get your hips more active, but you're in that tenth percentile,
ninety percent of people have more lower body power than you,
it's natural for you to want to swing with your
upper body because your lower body is just not powerful
enough to say, hey, I'm going to be the primary
mover here, let me do it.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So what people So, what I'm hearing is the and
this is what you and Josh Raps chatting about, was
that a lot of people don't understand that their lack
of strength will actually influence which predominant type of swing
the abs so and most god, most men typically are
stronger upper body than lower body, and most golfers typically
(02:28):
have an upper body dominant golf swing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right, Absolutely true, Absolutely true. So your body is always
going to try to do what is easiest for you.
Whatever it assumest and strongest, it's going to try to do.
So what we always try to do when we see
somebody like that is try to bring that upper body
power up to start matching that, or I apologize that
lower body power up to start matching that upper body power.
(02:51):
And once we do that, it's like a light switch. Right,
your lower body starts getting really active. You're able to
swing a lot more freely, You're able to get the
hips going like your coach wants you to, and you start.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hitting bombs seems pretty simple. So, yeah, the goal is
that we were going to make this kind of a
quick hitter. We got a couple more minutes that what
would be the So that's obviously the biggest misconception people
have on terms of the strength side. If you had
to say, in terms of the connection of obviously we
talk about the mobility side of things, what's the biggest
(03:19):
miss that the average amateur listening right now has.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Would say the biggest miss or the test that we
see failed the most is probably going to be the hips.
Being able to internally and externally rotate the hips properly
makes a really big difference in terms of you being
able to use your lower body in the swing, just
like we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Right and internally, just for everybody listening, internal rotation is
your ability to rotate into your trail side on your
takeaway and into your lead side through impact, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And if you can't do that, you're going to start
to sway and slide. You're going to start to you know,
try to swing with all upper body. Your lower back
is going to really take a big hit in terms
of how much rotation your lower back is supposed to do.
It's not supposed to rotate, or it's supposed to rotate
very very little.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
In total, thirteen degrees of all the lumbar sections.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, twolf swing requires a lot more than thirteen degrees.
So you got to get that from your hips. So
when most people come in, we see a lot of
folks maybe at fifteen degrees twenty degrees when they first
come in those first.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Couple weeks, and then as opposed to we.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Start working with them and we're really aimed for like
forty five degrees is what we try to get. Usually
after a couple of weeks, people are in the thirties,
and then we keep pushing things slowly up into the.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Forties and so the So basically I would then it
wou then reason to say that if most people don't
understand or don't realize that their hips are no good
in terms they can't rotate, and most people don't realize
that their lower body is weaker than their upper body,
both of those things they can't rotate, so that's going
to drive more of an upper body dominated swing. They
also don't have to strengthen the lower bodies, so that's
(04:53):
going to drive a more upper body dominated swing, so really,
we shouldn't be shocked that most amateur golfers have an
upper body domin in this way. Very correct, Chris. So
there's your nugget today, guys. Hopefully you found that helpful. Garrett,
thank you so much. I totally threw this on him today,
but I thought it was super viable to have him
chat with you guys about some of the common things
that we're seeing in the you know, thousands of people
(05:15):
that we're working with and hopefully that you know connects
for you listening out there. So as always, thanks for
hanging out with us here on the golf of this
bomb squad, and we'll look forward to catching the next episode.
Welcome to the Golf Fitness Bomb Squad. I'm your host,
Chris fin and today I have a special guest with me.
He is the man behind the scenes that runs everything
for all of our virtual clients all around the world. Garrett.
Welcome to the show, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Chris, excited to be here. I believe this is your
first appearance. This is my first appearance. No, you have not,
but I pulled him in. He and Josh are director
of coaching. We're having a conversation around some common misconceptions
that our clients are having about the body swing connection,
and so I figured we might as well have that
conversation for everyone else to hear. So what is you
(00:45):
got talking about? Like the most common issue that clients
are misconceptions that clients have body swing connection. What is
it that you're seeing?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, I think probably the most common misconception that we
see is a lot of golfers come in and they
want to swing a certain way right, or they want
to make a couple of swing chain, but it feels
really really unnatural for them. So the biggest thing that
we tend to see is especially in our power tests,
like we do a vertical jump and we do a
seated chess pass. The vertical jump is used to assess
the lower body power. The chess pass is used to
(01:12):
assess the upper body power. So maybe you're going to
your coach and your coach is saying, hey, get your
hips more active. Make sure you're swinging with the lower body.
But when we test your vertical jump, you're in the
tenth percentile for your.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Age group, which means that you are jumping if there's
one hundred people ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But on the other hand, maybe you're doing your seated
chess pass. You take that medicine ball and you launch
it as far as you possibly can from a seated position,
maybe you're in the ninetieth percentile, meaning there's only ten
people out of one hundred that are better than you
at this. So based on doing this with twelve thirteen
thousand golfers at this point, right, we kind of know
exactly what to expect out of you for your given
swing speed, and we can compare those numbers to your
(01:50):
swing speed. Right, So if your coach is saying, hey,
get your hips more active, but you're in that tenth percentile,
ninety percent of people have more lower body power than you,
it's natural for you to want to swing with your
upper body because your lower body is just not powerful
enough to say, hey, I'm going to be the primary
mover here, let me do it.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So what people So, what I'm hearing is the and
this is what you and Josh Raps chatting about, was
that a lot of people don't understand that their lack
of strength will actually influence which predominant type of swing
the abs so and most god, most men typically are
stronger upper body than lower body, and most golfers typically
(02:28):
have an upper body dominant golf swing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right, Absolutely true, Absolutely true. So your body is always
going to try to do what is easiest for you.
Whatever it assumest and strongest, it's going to try to do.
So what we always try to do when we see
somebody like that is try to bring that upper body
power up to start matching that, or I apologize that
lower body power up to start matching that upper body power.
(02:51):
And once we do that, it's like a light switch. Right,
your lower body starts getting really active. You're able to
swing a lot more freely, You're able to get the
hips going like your coach wants you to, and you start.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Hitting bombs seems pretty simple. So, yeah, the goal is
that we were going to make this kind of a
quick hitter. We got a couple more minutes that what
would be the So that's obviously the biggest misconception people
have on terms of the strength side. If you had
to say, in terms of the connection of obviously we
talk about the mobility side of things, what's the biggest
(03:19):
miss that the average amateur listening right now has.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Would say the biggest miss or the test that we
see failed the most is probably going to be the hips.
Being able to internally and externally rotate the hips properly
makes a really big difference in terms of you being
able to use your lower body in the swing, just
like we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Right and internally, just for everybody listening, internal rotation is
your ability to rotate into your trail side on your
takeaway and into your lead side through impact, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And if you can't do that, you're going to start
to sway and slide. You're going to start to you know,
try to swing with all upper body. Your lower back
is going to really take a big hit in terms
of how much rotation your lower back is supposed to do.
It's not supposed to rotate, or it's supposed to rotate
very very little.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
In total, thirteen degrees of all the lumbar sections.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, twolf swing requires a lot more than thirteen degrees.
So you got to get that from your hips. So
when most people come in, we see a lot of
folks maybe at fifteen degrees twenty degrees when they first
come in those first.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Couple weeks, and then as opposed to we.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Start working with them and we're really aimed for like
forty five degrees is what we try to get. Usually
after a couple of weeks, people are in the thirties,
and then we keep pushing things slowly up into the.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Forties and so the So basically I would then it
wou then reason to say that if most people don't
understand or don't realize that their hips are no good
in terms they can't rotate, and most people don't realize
that their lower body is weaker than their upper body,
both of those things they can't rotate, so that's going
to drive more of an upper body dominated swing. They
also don't have to strengthen the lower bodies, so that's
(04:53):
going to drive a more upper body dominated swing, so really,
we shouldn't be shocked that most amateur golfers have an
upper body domin in this way. Very correct, Chris. So
there's your nugget today, guys. Hopefully you found that helpful. Garrett,
thank you so much. I totally threw this on him today,
but I thought it was super viable to have him
chat with you guys about some of the common things
that we're seeing in the you know, thousands of people
(05:15):
that we're working with and hopefully that you know connects
for you listening out there. So as always, thanks for
hanging out with us here on the golf of this
bomb squad, and we'll look forward to catching the next episode.
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