Day 2- Swing Speed Secrets- Free Training

 

3 fatal swing speed mistakes you must avoid

 

Yesterday I told you the story about how I finished tied for dead last at a Regional Qualifier for the Re/Max World Long Drive Championship…

And how the realization that I was WAY behind in the distance game - despite the amount of effort I had put into it - almost ruined my future in the golf industry.

(It didn’t help my overall confidence very much either.)

I realized a few weeks later that I had made 3 fatal mistakes that you absolutely can't make if you want to add any real distance to your swing.

I was focusing my efforts on the wrong things.

I spent all of my time grinding on the driving range making sure my swing got into all the right "power" positions.

I spent tons of money on new drivers as if one was going to be that much different than the other "super" drivers I was already fitted for.

I spent countless days tweaking those drivers.

I spent workout after workout performing the exact same exercises that had yielded some positive swing speed before...

But my speed just wouldn't budge anymore.

After all that time, money and effort spent... After it was all said and done I had virtually zero new results to show for it.

I was quite literally devastated, and I almost gave up on my dream career in golf because of it.

Well, today I wanted to make sure you never make those same fatal mistakes.

In fact, I want to guarantee you avoid them so that you never feel the same way I did.

So, here we go...

Mistake #1: Thinking the same speed exercises would keep working.

Here's the truth, you can literally have the best swing speed workout program ever created...

Designed by the best in the industry...

Designed perfectly for exactly what your body and swing needs...

But if you don't know how to adapt it as you go...

Then you will always reach a plateau after a certain point.

And any progress after what you had initially gained will be nonexistent.

Your time and effort = wasted.

I had to learn that the hard way... And it almost cost me BIG.

Mistake #2: Thinking more is always better.

Similarly to the first mistake, if a swing speed workout yielded results, but now no longer does... How is more of that same workout going to make anything better?

We live in a society where the mentality is you have to "work hard" for everything, "out work" everyone, "more is better" and on and on...

We tend to especially think that about any kind of working out and training.

If you don't have your "nose to the grinder", then how can you expect results?

Us golfers tend to fall into this way of thinking more than others.

But here's the deal, if you keep your nose to the grinder you eventually won't have a face!

Well, fortunately I can tell you first hand from experience that that's not how building more speed works.

That's not even how building more strength or muscle works, but certainly not how you build speed.

At some point you actually need to do LESS total training to gain further results.

And it becomes more important to add in the right little exercise here and there, and subtract others.

Certainly not more, though.

If this doesn't get through to you then all that time spent grinding will just again = wasted.

Mistake #3: Thinking that unless an exercise resembles the golf swing in some form, it wasn't beneficial.

I get more questions about "golf specific" exercises than probably anything else.

Everyone wants to know what "secret" exercises that resemble the golf swing will rocket up their swing speed.

Don't get me wrong, there are some great golf specific exercises that visually look like a golf swing that you absolutely should be doing.

But the problem with that type of thinking is passing over the other 95% of exercises that might have a significant positive impact on your overall swing speed.

For example, most golfers wouldn't think that the bench press or pushup would have anything to do with their swing speed... But it does.

It helps build a base of upper body stability, and contributes to explosive speed and extension through the impact zone.

It certainly doesn't have to be heavy...

But even used sparingly in a training program, it will tremendously enhance the results you achieve from the other golf-specific moves you perform.

So, I've told you about the 3 things to make sure you NEVER do when trying to gain swing speed...

But what should you do instead?

When a training program or workout gets stale and stops getting you results...

You have to strategically and sparingly add in exercises that will compliment both the other exercises and the more advanced fitness level you've worked up to.

You see, the reason you plateau in most cases is because you have out grown your current workout program...

That's a good thing... Because it means you've improved!

Now that means you are capable of just a little more than last time. So a different exercise here and there that makes sense for where you're at is needed.

Interestingly, it also makes sense to remove some exercises at times along the way because they are no longer needed.

Often times you will subtract just as many exercises from your speed workout as you add to it.

This further supports the "more" isn't always "better" concept.

When I first started out learning everything I could about gaining swing speed, it became apparent very quickly that golf instructors did not have the answers.

If they did, then all of their students would bomb the ball. But even most PGA Tour players taught by the best instructors in the world didn't hit it all that far...

And even the longest hitters on Tour couldn't hold a candle to even the longest senior hitters in the world.

I had seen that first hand at that Regional LD event.

So that's where I started...

What about these long drivers allowed them to produce so much club head speed and distance?

Whatever it was, it was even working for the seniors!

It sure wasn't their "textbook" golf swings because most of them were pretty far from being what you would call technically "sound".

At least compared to PGA Tour golfers.

It wasn't their equipment because I later came to find out that they could hit a stock 45", "off the rack" driver within about 15-20 yards of their behemoth long drivers.

In other words, still INSANE distances.

It wasn't their huge muscles because despite there being some muscle bound looking "freaks" in the sport, the majority of them looked like pretty normal guys.

Shoot, some of them were even on the "scrawny" side!

So what was it?

What was the commonality to all of this speed and distance?

Well, the biggest "ah ha" moment came when I stepped back from looking at it from a "golf-only" perspective.

It then became obvious to me.

They didn’t come from a golf background, but rather had trained for other sports in the past.

This means that despite not having the prettiest swings on the range, whatever types of training they did leading up to this point was what mainly contributed to their driving abilities.

If you also possessed a more sound technique, then even better!

They were mostly ex javelin throwers, hockey players, baseball players, and a few other sports that put a premium on rotational power and speed… The EXACT type of rotational power and speed golfers need!

For example, remember that recent World Long Drive Champ I had mentioned in my last email? He was a former baseball standout.

Oh, and one of the greatest long drivers in history? He was a skinny former hockey player.

This realization led me to seek out and learn from the best sports performance coaches and specialists in the world. The ones that knew how to improve anybody’s speed, power, strength, you name it.

I was more excited than I had been in a long time!

Why? Because now I knew that if I could learn this side of the equation, and then apply the extensive knowledge I had already acquired in the golf swing, then the sky’s the limit!

This is what was missing in golf.

Up to this point there were golf swing experts who knew a little about the performance side…

There were sports performance specialists who knew a little about golf…

But there was never someone who had such extensive knowledge, expertise and experience in both.

Never someone who could take what produced speed and power in other sports and apply it to the unique requirements of the golf swing.

I took it upon myself to be that person, and have now spent over 2 decades pioneering exactly that.

If you want to start gaining massive amounts of swing speed that generates new found distance you didn't even know you were capable of, then directly training for that speed like those from other sports do is hands down the fastest - and really the only way - to make that happen.

The right training can add 30, 50 and even 80+ yards to your drives:

Without having the prettiest swing…

Without spending countless hours grinding on the range…

Without spending years taking golf lessons…

Without spending $1000s of dollars on new drivers…

The right training makes everything EASIER.

Tomorrow I’m going to show you how to guarantee that you are doing the right training for golf...

So that you aren’t wasting your effort on ANYTHING that doesn’t directly contribute to building more swing speed.

This greatly increases your ability to add substantial swing speed and, consequently, serious distance to your drives.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

-Josh
STRONGgolfers

 

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