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Sounds a lot like the core performance golf book.

 

I've been meaning to start that workout for a week now.

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These are great exercises. This company SKLZ makes resistance bands that you can use for variations of a few of those exercises too if you lack the real deal weights or equipment. Great stuff thanks for sharing that. I don't know what exact percent I'd attach to fitness helping me hit the ball further, but I'd say it's a size able one.

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Sure looks like a lot of work

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Sure looks like a lot of work

 

 

That I couldn't even begin to do.

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It's good to have a strong core but I think it's better to be flexible as far as distance is concerned. This is based on personal experience.

I do a lot of the above, plus yoga. That being said, as RP Jacobs has said many times "you can't teach speed", you either have it or you don't. The fastest I have been clocked is 127, BEFORE I started a regular workout routine. After breaking both wrists, I came back to a 108-110 SS. I then started a workout program to get back up around 115, then threw in yoga to gain a few more. My playing SS is 116-118; just this past Tuesday I hit 124 on the FlightScope. So, to my point, it takes a good blend of strength (especially in the core) and flexibility.
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I do a lot of the above, plus yoga. That being said, as RP Jacobs has said many times "you can't teach speed", you either have it or you don't. The fastest I have been clocked is 127, BEFORE I started a regular workout routine. After breaking both wrists, I came back to a 108-110 SS. I then started a workout program to get back up around 115, then threw in yoga to gain a few more. My playing SS is 116-118; just this past Tuesday I hit 124 on the FlightScope. So, to my point, it takes a good blend of strength (especially in the core) and flexibility.

 

I understand you need both to get the full potential out of your swing speed but there are many golfers I have played with that hit the ball plenty farther than me, they are more flexible but not as physically strong (not an assumption, it is a fact). Some have never trained or have done core exercises and that stuff but they happen to be more flexible naturally and as a result get better distance from generating higher club speeds. I chose not to stretch much so I didn't expect to hit it as far as them. So this is where I get the impression that flexibility plays a bigger role in club head speed than physical strength. 

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This is a great post! As I have said many times before Whiskey you are wise beyond your years. I am strong for my age everyone tells me anyhow. I did get in the flexability thing a few years ago and still do it. I have found out that if you are a big guy like me you will get muscle bound and do not have any flexability especially when you age. I have found out in my latter years that if you do not warm up properly you are very prone to injury especially in cooler weather. I have been a big propent of streaching and have been helping some of my senior friends that are older than me to do the same. You do have to have limits and different techniques due to age and injuries etc. I do some yoga stuff because my wife is sorta into that. I tend to agree with What I have also seen RP say a few times in that you cant teach speed but you can darn sure work on flexability at any age. I would not resonabily expect to have the clubhead speed or flexability that say Whiskey or Bonsey has but I can work to be as flexable as I can and work with what I got

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I am like JBones have a decently high swing speed. Not as high as his but almost the same ball park:

 

~ Indoors :: 163-168 ball speed (around165 average) -- Comes to around 107 - 113 mph SS.

--> I normally am in dress shoes that don't have laces in them, not golf shoes or sneakers.

 

~ Outdoors :: 165-172 ball speed (around 168 average) -- Comes to around 112 - 118 mph SS.

--> I would say that the average is 114 / 168 ~ 1.47 smash factor.

 

 

I don't really have a violent transition, I have a bit of arm lift (Adam Scott or Greg Norman type swing), I just use gravity to start my downswing and rotate later into impact. The transition of what fires is more smooth then other that have similar swing speeds. I can play an S+ shaft instead of a pure X because of my load in transition as long as the tip is stiff enough not to balloon the bl I'm good to go.

 

For me in my distance / control, it comes down to flexibility and sequencing the kinetic energy properly more so then raw strength.

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I really need to get in better shape...especially strength....but man that looks like a lot of work.

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It does, but you don't have to do all of it in one shot Bk. Break it down and pick like 2 from each category. You could even do most of those as intervals. Google tabata if you aren't familiar with intervals to get started. You'll shore up your core and get leaner too. Toss some yoga into your cool down and you'll get strength and flexibility.

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LMAO, I'm right beside ya, lol

 

I agree on the flexibility-

 

Remember Tiger, circa 1997-2000, none, except Big John hit further, and the Tigster was a bean pole, though flexible as hell, like a WHIP, which Butch attributed his length to-

 

A whip like motion-

 

And lets face it, Big John and Freddie ain't big on the core stuff, LMAO

 

Have a nice week Bro :)

 

My Best,

Richard

LMAO That reminds me of the time a reporter on the GC asked Big John if he ever used the exercize trailers that the tour provided. He said no. Why not asked the reporter? JD replied "because they will not let me take my beer and cigaretts inside" Priceless!

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That workout...

 

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Lol, sorry, had to

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