by Ronald Burke
GET FIT TO GOLF – THE ULTIMATE GOLF SWING TRAINING PROGRAM
Why isn't your golf swing improving? Have you ever had your
golf swing analysed? That's not just having a golf professional
look at your swing but check out your golf swing plane, posture,
your spine angle, balance and general biomechanics. If you
haven't you are not having a true swing analysis done.
You understand the basics... how to hold the club, where to
stand, but things go wrong from there. The reason your golf
swing goes astray when you take your club back is because your
biomechanics are faulty. For example, if you have a functional
short leg on your left side, when you take your stance your
hips will rotate resulting in an open stance. You might think
that you are square to the target line, but you are not.
With your poor biomechanics the club is being forced into
an out-to-in swing so you will hit the ball with a clockwise
spine. Correcting your hip and spine angle will square the
club face at impact so you can hit the ball with an anti-clockwise
spin. The hips and shoulders must return to a square position
this will not only cure your slice but you allow distance from
more power being generated from the correct body turn and the
square club face. If your hips are rotated you will not be
able to align your feet, hips and shoulders square to the target.
If your posture is corrected your muscles will groove your
new swing so you will naturally return to a stance with a square
club face. Also if your hips are rotated your centre of gravity
will not be right this will force your shoulders to turn too
quickly with an open stance due to a poor hip rotation the
body will be in front of the ball. If your spine angle is wrong
you will not setup with your head behind the ball you will
begin your downswing before you have complete your back swing
with your arms.
Every golf swing fault can be analysed this way. That's why
your golf swing is not improving. You are not addressing your
main piece of golf equipment...YOUR BODY...and how it affects
your golf swing. This is why you have difficulty repeating
a good shot. Your biomechanics aren't grooved to a good swing.
Muscle memory is going to return you to a poor posture unless
it is retrained. Your golf professional is telling you to have
good balance, keep good posture and maintain your spine angle
throughout the shot. But how can you maintain your golf swing
if your body won't allow it? You need your golf swing analysed
from a biomechanical point of view to determine how your posture
and muscle imbalances are affecting your swing.
So I broke the golf swing down from a purely biomechanical
view. How does your posture affect your swing? Can it cause
you to hook, slice, hit the ball fat or thin etc? The answer
was yes. Because as your posture changes so does your swing
plane. Then I looked at the variations in posture. Can they
relate to swing faults? ...Yes, they are definitely related
to every swing fault. So I came up with a basic equation. Muscle
imbalance = poor posture = poor swing. I looked at every posture
and muscle imbalance and came up with a simple formula to analyse
these faults related to a swing fault. So this is how Get Fit
to Golf and the ChiroFit Program was born. If you can maintain
a constant posture and spine angle through a shot you will
be able to repeat the same swing and return the club face square
to the target line. I also looked at well know golf champions
past and present, from Ben Hogan, Jack Nickalus, Greg Norman,
Tiger Woods etc. Even though they have variations in their
swings at first glance, if you break their golf swing down
they all have something in common. At the impact zone they
have maintained good posture, spine angle and balance, and
they are able to repeat this. Tiger woods is a good example.
When he first came on the golf scene he had the best posture
of any golfer I had seen.
If you want to improve your golf game, your golf swing training
and analysis should have a physical component. Have your golf
swing analysed from a biomechanical standard and then fit it
to your game. This is the basis to Get Fit to Golf. An easy
to access online assessment process which will highlight and
analyse your golf swing faults and then you can download a
tailor-made easy to use program all done online. All it takes
is 30 minutes of posture balancing three times a week to dramatically
change your golf swing and improve your game for life.
About the Author
Ronald Burke is the owner of
Get Fit to Golf
which is a premier site for Golf information and membership
programs.
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