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This video is loading the glute with a centered pivot so many golfers try and

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get you know this really good glute load and try to feel a lot of pressure

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into the hip mostly because they've been told that that's a good sign that you

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've

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loaded up in the backswing. Now the problem is many golfers do that by their

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whole upper body off the golf ball like this. I'm going to show you while you

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may

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feel a little bit of hip activity that's not really what we're going for when

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we're trying to get this glute activation. The way you're going to get it is by

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shifting your pressure with a centered pivot and feeling a little bit of

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unweighting to prepare you for what you want to do in transition. So I've got a

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couple drills whether it's you know that open hand or or the shoulder plane

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pivot to kind of feel where you want to get to at the top of the swing where

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your upper body stays a little bit more centered. Part of this is because the

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tour average of upper body movement is only about an inch half inch off the

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golf ball and it's less when we get into the irons. So if I make a good back

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swing

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pivot some golfers will feel like okay I'm still kind of centered I don't feel

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this whole backswing load. So then this is the next key step that I have them

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do.

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We've gotten into this pivot and then what I want you to do is you're at the

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top of the swing. I want you to pick up your left foot for a split second and

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notice how I can do that without shifting my weight. So watch yourself in a

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mirror when you get to the top of the swing if in order to pick up the foot you

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end up looking more like this then you're shifting your weight more with your

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upper body. And what I want you to do is I want you to shift just to the point

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where you can pick it up for a split second and what you'll feel is when you

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pick it up you'll feel a slight increase in glute activity because that glute

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is

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preventing you from actually falling down this way. So it's preventing you

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from falling into that foot which helps load it. But what we've seen with the

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force plate stuff is that having a little bit of an unweighting allows you to

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push into that lead side stronger in transition or the right amount in

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transition. What I find is that when you have too much of a shift like this you

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'll

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get into that lead side slower and you won't put quite as much force so you'll

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kind of drift into that lead side slowly with your upper with your lower body

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which leads you to being more of an arm dominant swinger. So if you have a

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hard time getting your lower body to initiate in transition you might not have

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loaded it correctly and you might not have loaded it correctly because you

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tried to load the glue by shifting too much off the ball instead of saying

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standard unweighting in order to get that glute loaded and then using that

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reloading or reweighting of the foot as the trigger to kind of start with the

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lower body. So I'll walk through the little progression that I'll do. You can

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usually do this either as a pause drill or as a pump drill. So I'll just do -

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we

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did the shoulder plane so I'll do kind of the other one where I kind of reach

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that arm away get that feeling of where my body is going to get to in space get

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back to set up get right back there and then I'm going to try to pick up that

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foot so I can feel a little bit of that glute load without having my upper body

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shift. Then I'm going to take a practice wing and I'm going to feel that slight

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unweighting without actually picking my foot up off the ground. So I'm going to

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try to pick it up just so I could almost slide a piece of paper not like I'm

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picking the whole foot up. So just slightly. Then once I have that feeling

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I'm going to feel like I get into that left side using you know kind of the

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feeling of putting more of my pressure into that front foot before my arms come

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down. So now I've got a good feeling of this centered pivot and how it's going

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to use the glutes. I can apply that while hitting some golf balls. So I'm

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going to do a little stop drill where I'm going to get to the top of the swing

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and kind of unload a couple times and then from there I'm going to replant the

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feet and just kind of let those arms come down hopefully make contact with a

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golf ball. Now I've got that feeling of loading the glute and firing with the

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lower body and it may not feel as much of a fire to you as just kind of a

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falling but I've got that feeling. You've got that feeling and now we can apply

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it

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to the golf ball in kind of a continuous swing feeling that slight unweighting

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I get to the top of the swing.

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A little bit thin on that one. So we'll try one more see if we can sync up the

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arms in the torso a little bit better there in transition. I was so focused on

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the lower body so now I'm going to get that sink and now I'm just gonna correct

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my path just a bit.

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So that was pretty straight pretty good there. Feeling that little unweighting

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will

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help you with the glute load. If you're struggling with your sequencing it

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could

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be because of the way you're loading your glute at the top of the swing so

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hopefully this video helps you feel the correct way from staying centered to

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load the glute instead of having a massive body shift in order to load the

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glute. So one more for you right there right there. You can feel that glute

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load. It's actually right there. I can feel the deep glute load when I go to

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pick

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up that foot. That's what we talk about when we mean glute loading.

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It's pretty solid there.