A good posture can make all the difference

What Causes Bad Posture?

Throughout the years, we've been sitting for 8 or more hours at our jobs, then we go home and sit for a few more hours. All the time with poor posture.

As the years go on, your muscles get both tight and weak, causing this sometimes dramatic curve (hump) in your upper back. You cannot fix this through thought.

What I mean is by trying to keep it straight. This is a "physical" issue and needs some simple, and easy exercises you can do anywhere to fix this debilitating golf swing restriction.

I'm going to show you how your golf swing will continue to lack power and consistency.

Let me explain, to help you understand the biomechanics of your golf swing.

Your golf swing is a rotary movement. Picture your spine as a rod that you have to rotate your body around, and this rod is very, very straight and rigid. Imagine a spit on a barbeque. Your spine is a spit.

If the spit is straight, it spins perfectly, around and around. If it's bent, it wobbles much slower and will not cook the chicken as well as it should, and it will take much longer to cook.

Let's get back to your golf swing!

If your spine is curved, this will dramatically limit your ability to freely rotate back and through in your golf swing. Have you sometimes felt like you just can't make a full turn no matter how hard you try?

This is the reason why!

Until you get your spine in alignment, you will continue to hit weak drives that very rarely go straight.

There are two main reasons why you can't correct this through thought and effort. One, you have a very restricted chest and front shoulder area, which is pulling your shoulders forward causing the rounding of your upper back, and second over the years your upper back muscles have weakened to the point of them being elastic and not firm.

Take a look at the picture below left. The side view picture shows the accentuated curve in the upper back (white curved line you can barely see…sorry).

Now take a look above right at this picture from the front. He is maintaining the incorrect curve in his back and trying to make a backswing. Notice how short and restricted it is?

Look how he can only go a little bit without coming out of his posture.

This is one of the MAIN reasons senior golfers can't make a turn.

Now take a look at this side view (below left). This is what you're posture's going to look like after you make the changes.

See the line I've drawn to show you how straight the spine is here? Believe it or not, it's not much effort into achieving this position.

Look at the turn you'll soon make after you get this corrected. This is something you can definitely achieve.

We can always look at changing your posture in one of our Winter Programmes.

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What's the pro shop staff up to this week?

This week is a very sad week as we said goodbye to Rod on Wednesday. Rod will be missed so much by me and by Kidderminster golf club. On Thursday, I travel to Sheffield for John Bennett's funeral, again a much loved man. John was junior organiser when I was young at the club and really helped me during my first few years at the golf club, I also became best friend with his son Nathan and we travelled all around the U.K, playing golf and getting in to trouble together. Such treasured memories. The weekend look busy in the diary for lessons but it all depends on our wonderful weather. Fingers crossed it stays dry. Happy golfing.