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This drill is backswing body tempo.

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So in the backswing section, we talk a lot about the different movements of the

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arms,

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but the general theme here is trying to have more of a body-centric, one-piece

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takeaway,

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creating a good body movement where we have our hips loaded, our core loaded,

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so that

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we're ready for transition.

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The reason is, in transition, we want to make the large muscles of the body

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initiate the

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downswing and then transfer that speed during the release using more of the

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arms with a

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little bit of body.

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But what will happen is, golfers who make more of an arm-dominant backswing

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will have

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a hard time then switching over to using the body in the downswing.

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I think of it similar to if I want to get a muscle to fire, I'm going to want

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to load

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it before I fire it.

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The comparable kind of analogy I use is trying to make your muscles sore, right

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?

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Because if your muscles are sore, that means that they're working.

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Well, there's two ways that you could load a muscle to make it, so we're

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assuming that

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we're not doing an endurance training program.

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I could either add a lot of speed, so if you're doing really explosive, really

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fast jumps,

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you could get sore quads or glutes, or I could add a lot of weight.

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So without really warming you up, throw you under a bar and put down, put on

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pretty close

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to your maximum, you're going to get sore from either of those two patterns.

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With golf, because we don't have a whole lot of weight in terms of resistance,

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I tend

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to have to use speed in order to load the muscles and create soreness.

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The way that this works in the backswing is if I am moving really slowly, there

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's no

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magic position where my glutes are going to be loaded and ready to fire.

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So what you'll tend to see on tour is you will tend to see a little bit more

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body-centric

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and you'll tend to see actually quicker tempos compared to amateurs.

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Part of the reason of that is if I'm rotating my body quickly in the backswing,

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then my

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glutes and some of my core muscles are going to have to slow down a greater

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force.

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Because they're going to slow down a greater force, now they're ready to fire

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in the downswing.

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So, if you make a backswing where you're just trying to hit positions and it's

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more that

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the arms are kind of guiding the club, it's going to be very hard for you to

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have a transition

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that is body-centric or powered from the lower body.

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So frequently what I'll do is I will try to get golfers to swing the club with

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the body.

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So basically using body speed, and I'll kind of exaggerate it, but using body

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speed as

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part of the takeaway and then just letting the momentum of the club carry the

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arms up

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to the top of the swing.

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That gives me a little bit more of a sensation that now I want to fire my body

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in transition

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compared to the alternative.

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So I'm going to have a little bit more body speed and I'm just going to let my

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arms ride

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that momentum to finish the backswing and then that will give me ultimately the

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platform

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to then start with my body in the downswing.

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So if you're struggling with getting your body to lead longer in the downswing,

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go back

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to the backswing, make sure that the arms aren't getting too far behind you as

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I've

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indicated in other videos.

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But from a tempo point of view, make sure that the body movements are a little

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bit quicker

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during the backswing in order to load the muscles of the hips that you would

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want to use during

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transition.

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So you can do this in nine to threes, but this is one that I actually like to

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do more

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with full swings than with nine to threes because it's more of a transition

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pattern.

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So you're going to feel like the backswing is going to lead the arms and the

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arms are

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just going to get thrown up to the top of the swing by the momentum of the body

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turning

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instead of me lifting with my arms and shoulders.

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So I'm going to use my body a little bit more aggressively during takeaway and

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then let the

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body lead that transition by working on that body acting a little bit quicker

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during the

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backswing.

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It will help you power the swing a little bit easier with the body during

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transition.