January 17, 2025 • 14 mins
What does it take to unlock your full potential in golf? In this episode, we dive into the top four stats from the past year that showcase how golfers improved their speed, power, and longevity. From adding 15,000 yards collectively to one golfer gaining 25 MPH of swing speed, these stats highlight the importance of accountability, goal-setting, and understanding your body. Learn how mobility, strength, power, and transfer training can make all the difference in your game—and why doing nothing is the only thing that will hold you back. Take the free home assessment: www.par4success.com/podcast
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to the golf in this Bomb Squad. I'm your host,
Chris Finn, and today I want to talk about some
pretty cool stats that we came up with at the
end of twenty twenty four as we were kind of
doing our end of year data dive. For any of
you that have listened to this pod before, any of
you that work with us or have listened to me before,
you know that I love data. You know that we
love data for US Golf, and many of you who
(00:30):
do work with us and listen you love data too,
which is why you're here. So I thought these were
pretty cool numbers. So there I got four cool stats
I'm going to share with you today and we'll talk
about a little bit about kind of what they mean,
how they happened, and you know, and then how they
would apply to you going into this year, and some
things that we learned over the course of it. So
I think the first stat jumping right into it is
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our average coach this year. So we've got over twenty
coaches around the country. Our average coach gained over sorry,
the average John our coaches is that their clients, you know, basically,
when you added all their clients together, each coach added
over two hundred miles an hour combined to all of
their clients. So, you know, Coach one added over two
hundred miles an hour. Coach to added two hundred miles
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an hour to their clients, And so it was a
pretty cool testament to people a doing their workouts and
B that the workouts they were doing were helping them.
That's a pretty massive number you think about, you know,
maybe you know just shy of three three yards for
every mile an hour. That's a massive amount of yards
that's that's actually gained. And I think the key that
came to that is it really kind of solidified for
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me this golf performance pyramid that we operate under, where
we think about when we look at evaluating somebody, do
they have the rotary mobility as the base of the pyramid,
And if they don't, then we're going to go ahead
and we're going to get it in the hips and
in the shoulders and the rasks by in the neck,
and then we're also looking at, you know, you know,
that second level of the pyramid and the strength and
the power and building those up. And we're obviously always
(01:57):
with our stats, we're able to compare and see how
does this person compared to other golfers their age number
one and then number two, how does this person compare
it to other golfers. You know, physically, if they want
to swing, you know, one hundred miles an hour, where
are they now? Where do they need to be to
swing on hundred miles an hour or throughout one hundred
and they want to get to one ten, right, So
it's not just age anymore. We've got the databases gotten
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so big we can actually look based on speed that
wants to be generated and what the physical needs and
the nature of those needs are. So that was pretty
cool to see. Is that, over the course of the
over two hundred miles an hour per coach added to
our p first golf client. So so shout out to
any of you guys that are listening that do work
with us. Shout out to you because you guys kick
some serious tale this this year in twenty twenty four.
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So I'll do one other stat in the in the
speed category. Then we're going to make a switch over
to the health longevity category, and that is that the
average golfer at part success in the past year gained
twenty yards less. You a little over twenty yards, but
we'll just say twenty yards. So we actually we compiled
the list of all of our athletes and we looked
and we actually put a leaderboard together for our coaches.
It was kind of fun to see kind of whose
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athlete gained the most in terms of miles per hour
clip I speed we should one hour one golfer gains
like twenty over twenty five miles an hour in the
past year, not the normal. Like disclaimer, this is not
a marketing thing like that is total outlier. But that
was freaking wild twenty five miles an hour in the year.
Now the average, you know for twenty yards is going
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to be about five to seven miles an hours, depends
on launch conditions and whatnot. But which is that's you know,
our guarantee. There's reason we look at this numbers because
that's what we guarantee everybody that we work with. So
it's nice to see that we hit that guarantee. And
the reason I bring this stat up is it is
the beginning of the year. If you're listening to this
when it comes out, if you're not, you know, it
doesn't really matter. This applies, This is and is applicable
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to any time of the year, any time of life
when it comes to goal setting. And I think that's
an important piece when we're talking about longevity in the
game of golf, when we're talking about anything in life
and being successful at it is setting goals and then
holding ourselves accountable to reach those goals. And I think
the way that we always try to do it here
at Peoples, why I try to do to my personal
(04:02):
life is I'm always looking at when I set a goal.
I'm a big fan of b hags, you know, big hairy,
audacious goals. Yeah. So let's say I want to gain
Let's say, you know, golfer, You're out there and you're like, hey,
I want I want to gain twenty yards just this year.
All right, cool, Well that's let's call that seven miles
an hour. So that's what you want to gain. Cool,
we got twelve months, So what are you going to
do in the first you know, three months while we've
broken into quarters? All right, well, I want to be
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at three miles an hour in the first quarter, because
Chris says that's the average that the you know, people
gain in that time, which it is, so all right,
that's smart. Let's do that, so a we know it's attainable, right,
and it's reachable, it's reasonable, so let's look at what
are the things that you need to do to accomplish that?
And then you know, and I think you can go
to that performance pyramid. How's your mobility? You know, the
golf the mobile home mobility assessment is free and it's
in the show notes. Take that, right, if you're brand
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new to this, go take it. See how you do, right,
and if if you don't pass, which you know ninety
percent of you won't pass, all for like, start there, right,
let's fix fix that mobility. Right. Once that mobility is fixed,
you know, then you start focusing much more on the
strength and the power that level two of the pyramid. Right.
Maybe that's what you do kind of towards the end
of Q one as you get into Q two, right,
because maybe say Q two, if you're up three miles
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an hour Q one, I want to be up another
you know, two miles an hour in Q two, right,
and then you go maybe a mile mile after that,
and then there's your seven. Right, So now you're gonna
work on your strength and your power. And then at
Q three maybe you get more to transfer training and
or the core four looking at weight, shift, looking at
you know, speed out front, those sorts of things, and
those are terms for those of you listening who do
work with us. You know what the heck I'm talking about.
(05:27):
If you don't know and come work with us, nothing
but now the core four the are the kind of
four key pieces that we talk about in the transfer
training side of things. You know, one, you have mobility
when you've got the strength, and it's just not we're
not seeing the speed that we know we should see
based on your engine size from all the testing we do.
You know, that's when we get to more of that stuff.
But I think from a goal setting standpoint, you should
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be retesting. The home assessment is literally what we retest
with people. You know, the minimum every quarter, right And
you say, hey, and I think you know I talked
about how many miles an hour? The coach is all,
you know, them all gaining two hundred miles an hour.
You know. I think when you're working with somebody, when
you're setting goals like these are things that you should
be thinking about and holding. You know, if you're working
with somebody, this is the standard. You should be holding
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them too, are you helping me set goals? Are we
measuring them? Are we retesting them? Right? Because if you
measure something, you test it. Let's say you go take
the home as testsment right now, let's say your hips suck.
Because most of you your hips will suck, you will
not pass. Then in that case, cool, well then what
are you going to go do about it? Right? And
then if you're like, I'm just gonna stretch my hamstrings
because then my hips will be more flexible, Okay, go ahead,
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do it and then retest and did your hip? Now
do you pass the hip test? But your thousand bucks
you don't because you're stretching your post or your chain
not your rotary chain, like doesn't it's not going to
help you. But at least then at that point you play, Okay,
well I stretched my hamstrings. I did it consistently, and
there's no change in the last four weeks. All right,
maybe that wasn't the right solutions. Now I got tried
(06:53):
something else. Maybe I'll try working on my you know,
on my soas and my TfL. And you're like, oh yeah,
oh my gosh, now four weeks I committed to that.
Oh wow, my hip mobility is better. Okay, I implemented
the right solution. Right. So, whether it's you trying to
do it on your own with you're working with a coach,
you know. I think as you're thinking about this next year,
you know, from you know, whatever this time is that
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you're listening to this podcast twelve months from now, what
is the goal that you want to hit? What is
the big goal? And then what are the what are
kind of the intermediate goals that you can set in
between right leading up that lead up to that big goal,
and what are the things that you need to do
to you know, to meet that. What are the top
three things you need to do to meet that first
intermediate goal? Right? If you if you don't, if you
fail the mobility, well, I gotta work on my mobility.
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That's that's what I need to do, right. And then
you check those boxes and then you're like, Okay, what's
the next three things I need to do. I need
to get stronger, I need to get more powerful. Okay, great,
and then you go you go do those you check those off?
Great now, right, So it's just these these little this
snowball effect. You need to get a little bit more momentum,
you push that flywheel because of it, you know the
flywheel analogy, right, the first you know ten twenty thirty
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forty pushes, you figure got to push. Really, it can harden,
it doesn't move. But once you get that sucker moving, man,
then just a little push and it just glides from
the momentum, right. And I think that's the key thing
that we saw this year is when we can get
people lots of little wins. You know, when you don't
bite off more than you can chew. You just say
I'm gonna start slow, and it get a bunch of
little wins, and then you get a couple of little
ones you're like, hey, I want to do a little more,
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and you gets a little bigger when you say, okay,
I'll do a little bit more, right, and you get
it's more. It becomes addictive and you just keep going
and going and going. And that's been a big key
that we've seen with these people that we've been working
with this year. So let's switch gears here and let's
go to the third cool stat is about injuries, about longevity.
It's an important to any of you who have aches
or pains after you play babe throughout the year when
you work out. I think the one thing I want
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to make very very clear, no matter what program you do,
you know, if you're working out, you could have the
best program in the world. If you're playing the game
of golf, it is a repetitive sport that always goes
to one side. There are gonna be tweaks and injuries
that happen. The key is how long do they keep
you out? And so that's what we looked at is
and we looked at, Hey, when somebody gets injured, they
have a tweet that is working with us, how fast
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until they can kind of get over that paint and
they're back doing what they need to do. Versus somebody
who comes in fresh to us because they got hurt
or they got tweaked, right, and they and they have
not been doing, you know, the right stuff. How long
does it take them to get better? Right? And it
was a twelve times faster recovery if they were doing
the right stuff. So I'm gonna say that again, twelve
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times faster. So to put that in context of actual days,
if you know, the average person will say, you tweak
your back a little bit, right, and you're better in
two days, because you know, the right stuff to do
because you've been educated and you know exactly where your
hot spots are. Dennis Paulson on inside the rope and
serious PJH Radio is a good friend of mine at
this point. This has been massive for him, right that
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he understands that if he does doing yard work and
he feels a tweak and the one side of his
low back, like day zero our one, he is in
with a ball into his hot you know, into his hips,
into the specific glute me glue min areas that are
for him kind of release that stress that does that's
kind of the spot that wants to lock up on them.
You know, within two days, you know he's already back
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playing golf. He's doing what he needs to be doing.
What we see is on the other side. You know,
somebody you know takes I'm gonna take two weeks off.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm just gonna take two
weeks off. Well, if the problem is tissue based and
you just take two weeks off, you didn't do anything
to fix the crap, and the tissue you still got crap,
and then you just maybe let some of the inflammatory
stuff go away. But the crap is still sitting there,
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and when you go try to do it again, guess
what you're gonna build more crap on crap. And so
I think that was the bit that was a pretty
impactful piece of information that we found this year, and
hopefully I am conveying that to you guys out there
right now. Is education of your own body and understanding
your own body and what you need to do when
you feel certain things is the single greatest superpower that
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you can attain as a golfer looking to play this
game well into their seventies, eighties and beyond. If you
can do that and manage that stuff, the amount of
golf that you're gonna get to play, golf days in
a row, golf trips you're gonna be able to go on,
like substantially, like by like like. It just it shifts
the curve of how much you're gonna be able to play.
So that was a really really cool stat And the
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last one that I thought was really neat was kind
of just a big number, and that was that if
we combined all of the yards gained by p Fresk
golfers this past year, it was over fifteen thousand yards.
So I know, a lot of a lot of you listening,
are you know work with us or have worked with us, Like,
shout out to you guys man, because you guys put
in some serious freaking work this year to gain that
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many yards. And so I think that you know the
combination of having you know, if you if you're looking
at doing something this year and you have kind of
a desire to get better, you desire you maybe it's
not even to get better, just maybe your desire is
just to not get worse as you get older. Right, Hey,
if I can just stay here, this is great. Well
guess what if you don't do anything based on the data,
you're gonna lose at least ten miles an hour every
single decade. It's like it's just gonna happen. But I
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think a cool thing that we've seen. You know, we've
been doing this ten twelve years. There is not a
single golfer yet who has come into us. And we've
had a couple of golfers that have been here over
ten years. They still swing faster now than they did
when they came in. I'm all at that sit for
sec if you do the right stuff. What we have
seen across like ten thousand post golfers is we've yet
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to meet a golfer when they come to us who
already are kind of at their thresholds right, particularly you know,
golfers over the age of forty. So they come in,
they're all going to gain, right and then now they're
going to you know, and a lot of them are
going to gain you know, five seven miles an hour.
And now that they're doing the right stuff, would they
just they they hang up there, They stay up there,
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and they don't get slower than where they came in,
because you know, they may get slower from their top
speed that they reach. But now now you're looking at
instead of losing ten miles an hour and ten years
worst case scenario, you're back to where you started ten
years ago, you're at the same spot, which means now
not only are you here ten yards or ten miles
an hour faster than everyone else because they've all lost
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ten yards or ten miles an hour, sorry, ten miles
an hours, like thirty yards. That's a big that's a
big word mix up on my part. So I just
thought that was really cool, and I just wanted to
commend any of you listening who even if you're not
working with us, you work with somebody else, whatever it is,
and you picked up yards like like, big shout out
to you, because that's the science that has is becoming
more and more mainstream. We are understanding on the professional
side how to gain speed and how to maintain speed
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for people as they age in the game of golf.
And you guys, as the golfers you know, are learning,
you know, to do it, and you're doing it. That's
the hard part, right Hearing it is one thing, actually
doing it as the other. And that's so that's a
shout out to you. Guys were actually put in the work.
So so I hopefully enjoyed kind of a little stat
rundown from twenty twenty four. Obviously we're going to do
a lot of the same stuff, but you know, at
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the same time, we have run a couple of studies
where we implemented some things that we thought were going
to yield results, and actually the control group did better
than the intervention group. And so that's been cool for us,
you know, is that you're we're always learning, and when
we think we have the answer and we oh this
is going to crush, you still got to test it
and when you test it, then you got it. If
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the data doesn't show that it worked like, that's fine,
it's not a bad thing. It just means it didn't work.
So iterate, get better, and see if you can make
it better the next time. So hopefully guys take that
mindset here into this year whenever you listen to this
for the next twelve, twelve months, twelve years, whatever it is.
You know, just you know, always having that growth mindset,
and just know that you can tell father time. He
can come back later, you can kick rocks. For now,
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you got more golf to play. So thanks for hanging
out with me here on the golf and his bomb squad,
and look forward to catch you on the next steps.
So
Welcome to the golf in this Bomb Squad. I'm your host,
Chris Finn, and today I want to talk about some
pretty cool stats that we came up with at the
end of twenty twenty four as we were kind of
doing our end of year data dive. For any of
you that have listened to this pod before, any of
you that work with us or have listened to me before,
you know that I love data. You know that we
love data for US Golf, and many of you who
(00:30):
do work with us and listen you love data too,
which is why you're here. So I thought these were
pretty cool numbers. So there I got four cool stats
I'm going to share with you today and we'll talk
about a little bit about kind of what they mean,
how they happened, and you know, and then how they
would apply to you going into this year, and some
things that we learned over the course of it. So
I think the first stat jumping right into it is
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our average coach this year. So we've got over twenty
coaches around the country. Our average coach gained over sorry,
the average John our coaches is that their clients, you know, basically,
when you added all their clients together, each coach added
over two hundred miles an hour combined to all of
their clients. So, you know, Coach one added over two
hundred miles an hour. Coach to added two hundred miles
(01:14):
an hour to their clients, And so it was a
pretty cool testament to people a doing their workouts and
B that the workouts they were doing were helping them.
That's a pretty massive number you think about, you know,
maybe you know just shy of three three yards for
every mile an hour. That's a massive amount of yards
that's that's actually gained. And I think the key that
came to that is it really kind of solidified for
(01:35):
me this golf performance pyramid that we operate under, where
we think about when we look at evaluating somebody, do
they have the rotary mobility as the base of the pyramid,
And if they don't, then we're going to go ahead
and we're going to get it in the hips and
in the shoulders and the rasks by in the neck,
and then we're also looking at, you know, you know,
that second level of the pyramid and the strength and
the power and building those up. And we're obviously always
(01:57):
with our stats, we're able to compare and see how
does this person compared to other golfers their age number
one and then number two, how does this person compare
it to other golfers. You know, physically, if they want
to swing, you know, one hundred miles an hour, where
are they now? Where do they need to be to
swing on hundred miles an hour or throughout one hundred
and they want to get to one ten, right, So
it's not just age anymore. We've got the databases gotten
(02:17):
so big we can actually look based on speed that
wants to be generated and what the physical needs and
the nature of those needs are. So that was pretty
cool to see. Is that, over the course of the
over two hundred miles an hour per coach added to
our p first golf client. So so shout out to
any of you guys that are listening that do work
with us. Shout out to you because you guys kick
some serious tale this this year in twenty twenty four.
(02:37):
So I'll do one other stat in the in the
speed category. Then we're going to make a switch over
to the health longevity category, and that is that the
average golfer at part success in the past year gained
twenty yards less. You a little over twenty yards, but
we'll just say twenty yards. So we actually we compiled
the list of all of our athletes and we looked
and we actually put a leaderboard together for our coaches.
It was kind of fun to see kind of whose
(02:59):
athlete gained the most in terms of miles per hour
clip I speed we should one hour one golfer gains
like twenty over twenty five miles an hour in the
past year, not the normal. Like disclaimer, this is not
a marketing thing like that is total outlier. But that
was freaking wild twenty five miles an hour in the year.
Now the average, you know for twenty yards is going
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to be about five to seven miles an hours, depends
on launch conditions and whatnot. But which is that's you know,
our guarantee. There's reason we look at this numbers because
that's what we guarantee everybody that we work with. So
it's nice to see that we hit that guarantee. And
the reason I bring this stat up is it is
the beginning of the year. If you're listening to this
when it comes out, if you're not, you know, it
doesn't really matter. This applies, This is and is applicable
(03:41):
to any time of the year, any time of life
when it comes to goal setting. And I think that's
an important piece when we're talking about longevity in the
game of golf, when we're talking about anything in life
and being successful at it is setting goals and then
holding ourselves accountable to reach those goals. And I think
the way that we always try to do it here
at Peoples, why I try to do to my personal
(04:02):
life is I'm always looking at when I set a goal.
I'm a big fan of b hags, you know, big hairy,
audacious goals. Yeah. So let's say I want to gain
Let's say, you know, golfer, You're out there and you're like, hey,
I want I want to gain twenty yards just this year.
All right, cool, Well that's let's call that seven miles
an hour. So that's what you want to gain. Cool,
we got twelve months, So what are you going to
do in the first you know, three months while we've
broken into quarters? All right, well, I want to be
(04:24):
at three miles an hour in the first quarter, because
Chris says that's the average that the you know, people
gain in that time, which it is, so all right,
that's smart. Let's do that, so a we know it's attainable, right,
and it's reachable, it's reasonable, so let's look at what
are the things that you need to do to accomplish that?
And then you know, and I think you can go
to that performance pyramid. How's your mobility? You know, the
golf the mobile home mobility assessment is free and it's
in the show notes. Take that, right, if you're brand
(04:45):
new to this, go take it. See how you do, right,
and if if you don't pass, which you know ninety
percent of you won't pass, all for like, start there, right,
let's fix fix that mobility. Right. Once that mobility is fixed,
you know, then you start focusing much more on the
strength and the power that level two of the pyramid. Right.
Maybe that's what you do kind of towards the end
of Q one as you get into Q two, right,
because maybe say Q two, if you're up three miles
(05:06):
an hour Q one, I want to be up another
you know, two miles an hour in Q two, right,
and then you go maybe a mile mile after that,
and then there's your seven. Right, So now you're gonna
work on your strength and your power. And then at
Q three maybe you get more to transfer training and
or the core four looking at weight, shift, looking at
you know, speed out front, those sorts of things, and
those are terms for those of you listening who do
work with us. You know what the heck I'm talking about.
(05:27):
If you don't know and come work with us, nothing
but now the core four the are the kind of
four key pieces that we talk about in the transfer
training side of things. You know, one, you have mobility
when you've got the strength, and it's just not we're
not seeing the speed that we know we should see
based on your engine size from all the testing we do.
You know, that's when we get to more of that stuff.
But I think from a goal setting standpoint, you should
(05:50):
be retesting. The home assessment is literally what we retest
with people. You know, the minimum every quarter, right And
you say, hey, and I think you know I talked
about how many miles an hour? The coach is all,
you know, them all gaining two hundred miles an hour.
You know. I think when you're working with somebody, when
you're setting goals like these are things that you should
be thinking about and holding. You know, if you're working
with somebody, this is the standard. You should be holding
(06:11):
them too, are you helping me set goals? Are we
measuring them? Are we retesting them? Right? Because if you
measure something, you test it. Let's say you go take
the home as testsment right now, let's say your hips suck.
Because most of you your hips will suck, you will
not pass. Then in that case, cool, well then what
are you going to go do about it? Right? And
then if you're like, I'm just gonna stretch my hamstrings
because then my hips will be more flexible, Okay, go ahead,
(06:32):
do it and then retest and did your hip? Now
do you pass the hip test? But your thousand bucks
you don't because you're stretching your post or your chain
not your rotary chain, like doesn't it's not going to
help you. But at least then at that point you play, Okay,
well I stretched my hamstrings. I did it consistently, and
there's no change in the last four weeks. All right,
maybe that wasn't the right solutions. Now I got tried
(06:53):
something else. Maybe I'll try working on my you know,
on my soas and my TfL. And you're like, oh yeah,
oh my gosh, now four weeks I committed to that.
Oh wow, my hip mobility is better. Okay, I implemented
the right solution. Right. So, whether it's you trying to
do it on your own with you're working with a coach,
you know. I think as you're thinking about this next year,
you know, from you know, whatever this time is that
(07:14):
you're listening to this podcast twelve months from now, what
is the goal that you want to hit? What is
the big goal? And then what are the what are
kind of the intermediate goals that you can set in
between right leading up that lead up to that big goal,
and what are the things that you need to do
to you know, to meet that. What are the top
three things you need to do to meet that first
intermediate goal? Right? If you if you don't, if you
fail the mobility, well, I gotta work on my mobility.
(07:36):
That's that's what I need to do, right. And then
you check those boxes and then you're like, Okay, what's
the next three things I need to do. I need
to get stronger, I need to get more powerful. Okay, great,
and then you go you go do those you check those off?
Great now, right, So it's just these these little this
snowball effect. You need to get a little bit more momentum,
you push that flywheel because of it, you know the
flywheel analogy, right, the first you know ten twenty thirty
(07:57):
forty pushes, you figure got to push. Really, it can harden,
it doesn't move. But once you get that sucker moving, man,
then just a little push and it just glides from
the momentum, right. And I think that's the key thing
that we saw this year is when we can get
people lots of little wins. You know, when you don't
bite off more than you can chew. You just say
I'm gonna start slow, and it get a bunch of
little wins, and then you get a couple of little
ones you're like, hey, I want to do a little more,
(08:18):
and you gets a little bigger when you say, okay,
I'll do a little bit more, right, and you get
it's more. It becomes addictive and you just keep going
and going and going. And that's been a big key
that we've seen with these people that we've been working
with this year. So let's switch gears here and let's
go to the third cool stat is about injuries, about longevity.
It's an important to any of you who have aches
or pains after you play babe throughout the year when
you work out. I think the one thing I want
(08:39):
to make very very clear, no matter what program you do,
you know, if you're working out, you could have the
best program in the world. If you're playing the game
of golf, it is a repetitive sport that always goes
to one side. There are gonna be tweaks and injuries
that happen. The key is how long do they keep
you out? And so that's what we looked at is
and we looked at, Hey, when somebody gets injured, they
have a tweet that is working with us, how fast
(09:03):
until they can kind of get over that paint and
they're back doing what they need to do. Versus somebody
who comes in fresh to us because they got hurt
or they got tweaked, right, and they and they have
not been doing, you know, the right stuff. How long
does it take them to get better? Right? And it
was a twelve times faster recovery if they were doing
the right stuff. So I'm gonna say that again, twelve
(09:26):
times faster. So to put that in context of actual days,
if you know, the average person will say, you tweak
your back a little bit, right, and you're better in
two days, because you know, the right stuff to do
because you've been educated and you know exactly where your
hot spots are. Dennis Paulson on inside the rope and
serious PJH Radio is a good friend of mine at
this point. This has been massive for him, right that
(09:48):
he understands that if he does doing yard work and
he feels a tweak and the one side of his
low back, like day zero our one, he is in
with a ball into his hot you know, into his hips,
into the specific glute me glue min areas that are
for him kind of release that stress that does that's
kind of the spot that wants to lock up on them.
You know, within two days, you know he's already back
(10:08):
playing golf. He's doing what he needs to be doing.
What we see is on the other side. You know,
somebody you know takes I'm gonna take two weeks off.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm just gonna take two
weeks off. Well, if the problem is tissue based and
you just take two weeks off, you didn't do anything
to fix the crap, and the tissue you still got crap,
and then you just maybe let some of the inflammatory
stuff go away. But the crap is still sitting there,
(10:29):
and when you go try to do it again, guess
what you're gonna build more crap on crap. And so
I think that was the bit that was a pretty
impactful piece of information that we found this year, and
hopefully I am conveying that to you guys out there
right now. Is education of your own body and understanding
your own body and what you need to do when
you feel certain things is the single greatest superpower that
(10:51):
you can attain as a golfer looking to play this
game well into their seventies, eighties and beyond. If you
can do that and manage that stuff, the amount of
golf that you're gonna get to play, golf days in
a row, golf trips you're gonna be able to go on,
like substantially, like by like like. It just it shifts
the curve of how much you're gonna be able to play.
So that was a really really cool stat And the
(11:12):
last one that I thought was really neat was kind
of just a big number, and that was that if
we combined all of the yards gained by p Fresk
golfers this past year, it was over fifteen thousand yards.
So I know, a lot of a lot of you listening,
are you know work with us or have worked with us, Like,
shout out to you guys man, because you guys put
in some serious freaking work this year to gain that
(11:33):
many yards. And so I think that you know the
combination of having you know, if you if you're looking
at doing something this year and you have kind of
a desire to get better, you desire you maybe it's
not even to get better, just maybe your desire is
just to not get worse as you get older. Right, Hey,
if I can just stay here, this is great. Well
guess what if you don't do anything based on the data,
you're gonna lose at least ten miles an hour every
single decade. It's like it's just gonna happen. But I
(11:56):
think a cool thing that we've seen. You know, we've
been doing this ten twelve years. There is not a
single golfer yet who has come into us. And we've
had a couple of golfers that have been here over
ten years. They still swing faster now than they did
when they came in. I'm all at that sit for
sec if you do the right stuff. What we have
seen across like ten thousand post golfers is we've yet
(12:18):
to meet a golfer when they come to us who
already are kind of at their thresholds right, particularly you know,
golfers over the age of forty. So they come in,
they're all going to gain, right and then now they're
going to you know, and a lot of them are
going to gain you know, five seven miles an hour.
And now that they're doing the right stuff, would they
just they they hang up there, They stay up there,
(12:39):
and they don't get slower than where they came in,
because you know, they may get slower from their top
speed that they reach. But now now you're looking at
instead of losing ten miles an hour and ten years
worst case scenario, you're back to where you started ten
years ago, you're at the same spot, which means now
not only are you here ten yards or ten miles
an hour faster than everyone else because they've all lost
(13:00):
ten yards or ten miles an hour, sorry, ten miles
an hours, like thirty yards. That's a big that's a
big word mix up on my part. So I just
thought that was really cool, and I just wanted to
commend any of you listening who even if you're not
working with us, you work with somebody else, whatever it is,
and you picked up yards like like, big shout out
to you, because that's the science that has is becoming
more and more mainstream. We are understanding on the professional
side how to gain speed and how to maintain speed
(13:23):
for people as they age in the game of golf.
And you guys, as the golfers you know, are learning,
you know, to do it, and you're doing it. That's
the hard part, right Hearing it is one thing, actually
doing it as the other. And that's so that's a
shout out to you. Guys were actually put in the work.
So so I hopefully enjoyed kind of a little stat
rundown from twenty twenty four. Obviously we're going to do
a lot of the same stuff, but you know, at
(13:45):
the same time, we have run a couple of studies
where we implemented some things that we thought were going
to yield results, and actually the control group did better
than the intervention group. And so that's been cool for us,
you know, is that you're we're always learning, and when
we think we have the answer and we oh this
is going to crush, you still got to test it
and when you test it, then you got it. If
(14:06):
the data doesn't show that it worked like, that's fine,
it's not a bad thing. It just means it didn't work.
So iterate, get better, and see if you can make
it better the next time. So hopefully guys take that
mindset here into this year whenever you listen to this
for the next twelve, twelve months, twelve years, whatever it is.
You know, just you know, always having that growth mindset,
and just know that you can tell father time. He
can come back later, you can kick rocks. For now,
(14:26):
you got more golf to play. So thanks for hanging
out with me here on the golf and his bomb squad,
and look forward to catch you on the next steps.
So
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