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This drill is bridged to follow-through. So in this follow-through section, I

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talk a

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lot about this bracing, so if I've done a really good job of using my lower

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body,

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I'm basically going to be in a position where I can really handle it, handle

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the

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speed of the club and the arms extending away from me. Well, one of the common

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areas where people tend to not get into a really good position is going to be

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in

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the hips. So if you've done any type of functional movement training, you've

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probably encountered what's called a bridge. A bridge is basically if I was

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laying flat on the ground and I was to extend my hips kind of like so and try

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and squeeze my butt. So it's a it's a glute activation exercise. Well, when I'm

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when I'm doing a bridge, my hips are actually going into extension. So what

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I'll have a lot of golfers do, especially if they tend to have more of

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this scoop on the way through, or if they've been cleared by their doctor

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and they're good to go, but they still get a little bit of back pain and they

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feel it kind of through the release. Getting those glutes to squeeze can

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sometimes help with that problem as well. So I'm gonna take the club and place

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it across my hips and I'm going to squeeze my butt and move my hips towards

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the camera. I'll do it this way so you can kind of demonstrate. So I'm just

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basically using this for a little bit of resistance to push against and I'm

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trying to squeeze my hips towards the camera. Then what I'll have my golfers

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do is get into your kind of golf stance and then go ahead and bridge, but this

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time I'm going to rotate and bridge towards the target. So right now I'm

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trying to squeeze my butt towards the target and not really worried about what

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my upper body does. So I may do this five or ten times just kind of feeling the

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the butt squeeze kind of like so. Now when you as you see when I'm doing this,

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in

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order to get this glute activity, the inside of my foot is pushing into the

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ground. It's actually going to be harder for me to squeeze my butt if I really

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spin out that foot. So proper glute activation can really lead into better

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foot mechanics vice versa. So then the next piece would be I'm going to bridge

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and I'm just going to add a little bit of side bend. So I'm trying to get now

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into

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this bridge position with a little bit of side bend. Then I'm going to hold my

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arms out in front and I'm going to do the exact same thing. So from here I'm

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just

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going to bridge and get into that bracing position. So this is all glute

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squeeze, but notice how in the follow-through position compared to my lower

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body my upper body is more in the middle of my stance. They used to teach

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this big reverse C of the upper body staying back and we know that that can

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be problematic, but it wasn't completely wrong. The tour average on on AMM or a

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frequent zone is somewhere in that 50 to 60 degrees of spine extension. It's

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not

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true spine extension because most of it's coming from the pelvis compared to

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where the thorax is. But it's we know that in order to have this shallow angle

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of attack in this flat spot and those arms extending you're going to have to

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have your upper body behind your lower body and if you're not doing it by

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squeezing your glutes you're putting your lower back in jeopardy. So you can

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use this feeling both in nine to three style swings where I'm squeezing my

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glutes and doing the bridge through the wall or in full shots, but it's really

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a

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big piece of if I'm working on this bracing component to the follow-through

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in the release. So looking at a nine to three it would look something like that

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where I'm getting that good arm extension and the hips are bracing on the way

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through pushing through that lead foot and then if I was to take that up to a

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full swing I'm trying to kind of gradually get into that bridge position.

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I'm not really trying to get there explosively and it would look something

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like that.