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.
Today we are coming in hot talking about back pain. Specifically, why your back pain is not improving OR why you have gotten back pain AGAIN for a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time. Really, I am talking about back pain because this is going to be the kick off of our topic for the month of July! Although this blog is specifically for back pain, this can apply to any type of pain.
Welcome to the July Motus Minute where you will find the latest news, views, and announcements happening at Motus Rx Physical Therapy. For July were talking golf consistency, golf repeatability, nutrition, and July events happening!
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 this article we discuss why hitting the golf ball farther requires more than gimmicks and tricks and how you can start doing more of the right things today to blow it past your friends off the tee.
Here is a simple hint on how to really get what you want in 2018.
Elbow pain with golf is common. So common that there is something actually called “golfer’s elbow.” However, with further investigation and understanding swing dynamics, we will start to realize that many painful elbow situations with golf are really coming from something else in the swing. Read on to find out what that something else is AND how it can help you add distance while you get out of pain.
