There are three common anti-rotation assessments that Motus Rx Physical Therapy uses to evaluate golfers’ ability to speed up and slow down rotationally. This blog will walk you through each of these assessments and inform you of what your results might yield for your golf swing.
If you are slicing the golf ball, you need to be executing an inside-in club path to get your club face more square. Driving into your lead leg more to create more ground reaction force and clear the hips, having more torso side bend, and improving shoulder rotation will help you break habits that are causing you to slice the golf ball.
Every golfer is always looking for more distance to their drives. The two main benefits of adding distance are a shorter approach to the green and a better likelihood of making par. Dr. Eric Wallace has recognized several commonalities with golfers who cannot seem to add distance too their drives and writes how to fix them!
Those are the three major steps on how to physically improve for golf. So now we have a better understanding of what “golf fitness†really is all about if you are going about it correctly. It’s not blindly training on a treadmill, it’s not blindly pounding balls at the range, it is identification: figuring out where you are at and where you want to go through the evaluation process that we have. Mobility, strength, power: physical adjustments and changes. When we are talking about our screening process, those are the three things that we are going to be looking at to physically improve. Re-integration: reintegration back into your sport. This includes practice with intent, finding someone that you like and trust, and continual objective measurement.
The number one thing that people were talking about was consistency. They wanted to know how they could get more consistent. Through my lens of working with biomechanics, golfers, and golf performance, the consistency aspect is always challenging because there are so many things that go into that. There is equipment, hand-eye coordination, club path, club face, set up posture, and the list goes on. Continue reading to discover how you can become more consistent and repeatable in your golf swing.
Learn about four key areas of the body to help improve your swing, fix your golf swing, reduce pain, improve your golf score, swing with ease, and drive the ball further. The upper neck, spine, hips, shoulders, and ankles are the most crucial areas for maximal rotational power. If you experience neck pain, upper neck pain, back pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, or ankle pain, be sure to tune in.
In our last article we talked about the 1st key to adding significant distance to your game without equipment upgrades,
This simple idea discusses what many of us do at set up that create an issue during the golf swing causing back pain with golf and issues after playing. There is a simple solution that may significantly improve your back pain with golf.
Dr. Eric had the fantastic opportunity to work with PGA Tour Pros at Torrey Pines in late January. Here’s what he learned from that experience working with elite, high level athletes and golfers and why it ultimately applies to you and your golf goals.
Golf is a complex game and hard work and persistence is required to improve. But this detail and potential simplification of the golf swing has helped Eric 100% erase his back pain and had significant distance (without over swinging). Here’s how he found out about it, how he improved it, and why it was like Christmas in May at the Motus Rx Swing Studio!
