Balancing Your Body Golf Drill

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• Instructor: Mike Malaska
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Fitness

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So when it comes to playing golf, you want to be as consistent as you can be, and, and your body plays a big role in that. So it's balance in your body. I have, I, I struggle a little bit when I hear sports specific training for golf. Really what you want is you want your body to be balanced out and so that it does what it's supposed to do. And then you can play golf, tennis, hike, whatever, and you're gonna do it at your best. So let's talk about a golf swing for a minute. And this is something all of you should be doing every single day when you practice and play. So we're standing here and we're making swings. So when I'm swinging right-handed and I'm hitting the ball, I'm contracting one side of my body and elongating the other. So you spend all day making that motion. So if you don't do something to balance that out, all of a sudden this hip gets really tight, this one loosens up and it starts doing this to your posture. So one of the best ways to offset that is get yourself a left-handed club. And this is something I do, I've done for a long time. So you set up left-handed and start hitting some balls left-handed. Now, even if you don't hit balls, even if you just make swings left-handed, you don't have to hit balls. But the deal is now when you're swinging left-handed, now you're contracting this side and elongating this side so it balances you out. The other thing that's important, it's called spatial awareness. When you turn around and swing the other direction, your brain starts to recognize and more focus and it feels more what's going on. 'cause…