3 Golf Exercises For Better Separation in Your Golf Swing

One key to hitting longer drives and staying healthy while playing golf is having good separation between the upper and lower body. The challenge is this is something that typically doesn't come naturally and proper exercise is needed to achieve this skill. If you lack thoracic rotation you will always move from other segments until you achieve activation in your thoracic spine.
In this video Greg takes you through 3 exercises that will help you gain the separation you need to play top level golf while decreasing your chance for injury.
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[@markwisniewski8141]

Great use of indian clubs! You understand the value to the shoulders that few in golf do. Good stuff.

[@ivanyu1122]

so in attempting to do exercise one and two, i do realize by locking the lower body, the head tilts as you exceed your limit, what should you feel in the neck if you are doing it right?

[@proflexstretchingflexibili3541]

In my work in the fighting industry, golf and baseball torque has always been associated with shoulder rotation against the hips. Working on all of the muscles called upon to rotate the torso (shoulders) around the spine. In creating Butch Harmon Golf Fitness which we turned into Tour Golf Fitness we used the ProFlex Stretch to increase flexibility (along with other stretches) and as it fixes the hips allowing for better isolation and then we used the MedX Torso rotation machione that fixes the hips allowing for isolating all muscle called upon to rotate shoulders around the spine. That said, you have some fantastic movements and exercises I've never seen and your knowledge on just how many golfers find rotation (back swing) in the wrong places (collapsing the knee, pivoting the left heel or raising up the left heel (right handed golfers) turning the hips, swaying etc. Then when you fix their hips, they have next to zero torque or shoulder rotation against the hips.
There are very few people I can say I really like and could actually succeed training the masses for golf as many use a PT mindset, spitting out far too much esoteric terms to sound important which only confuses and complicates the issue. They also have no clue about motor learning and that skill is specific and conditioning is general. Worst example of what not to do is when people are told to grab a medicine ball or anything that is weighted and perform movements that are similar to their golf swing. This is absolutely the worst thing any skills oriented athlete can do. In high repetition (over 5 in a row, in multiple sets or doing it multiple times per week), if someone performs something very similar to their golf swing (in their address position or posture, backswing, down swing, thru-swing or finish position); they are causing far more harm to the desired skill than they can imagine!!!
In motor learning or when neuromuscular pathways are being burned in via perfect practice makes perfect and practice (or repetition) makes permanent; when a movement or drill is similar to the desired skill but not exactly like it, this is known as "negative motor learning". Posative motor learning is when movements and drills are exactly like the desired skill (set up, posture, all movements, same muscle contractions, same timing of contractions, etc. Indifferent motor learning is when the movements or drills are unrelated like if we took athletes and chopped wood, or did kettle bells or isolated strength training via a circuit. We'd get them stronger, train different energy systems yet the skill is never hindered.
So many fitness and sports performance trainers didn't understand skills training as it is far more specific than conditioning so they made up movements that appear golfy, or look like a baseball swing or like someone throwing a straight right hand yet they had no idea how much neuromuscular (mind body) confusion they were causing and they were literally undoing the hours of practice trying to burn in the exact pathways that are required to obtain mindless skill that is repeatable without having to think about it.
I haven't seen if you do any of these movements but if you do; this info is not just my opinion; it is an absolute fact. Loads of research has been done since the 1950's on motor learning (positive, negative and indifferent). There isn't an NBA, MLB or NFL skills coach in the pros that would allow:
(a) Basket ball player to shoot a ball that was a lot bigger and weighed more than a regulation ball in an effort to build "shooting strength".
(b) Swing coach in baseball to allow a key batter to perform high reps with a bat that was as big around as a log and 3x or more heavier than a regulation bat
(c) A QB coach that would allow someone to have their star QB drop back just like in a game but instead of throwing a football; the QB would use a medicine ball that he could hold with one hand.
Sounds silly doesn't it...but people do it all day in golf by allowing a golfer to mimic his or her back swing, down swing and thru-swing and even the finish using two hands on a medicine ball.....exact same thing and it is utterly ignorant. I'd love to meet you; the connections I have in the golf industry and pro sports are very solid, like to brainstorm with you.
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