| High speed video technology can record the way a | | | | your shots will be consistent. |
| golfer's body moves in minute detail. We can study | | | | - Backswing. Remember, this is when you're winding |
| the images and learn a lot about the way it works. It | | | | up that torque, to be released in the downswing. This |
| may sound super high tech and scientific, but the | | | | movement begins with the feet. As you start to |
| results of biomechanical analysis can help you lower | | | | wind back, your weight shifts to the back of your |
| your score! | | | | right foot and the front of your left foot. In other |
| The key to the golf swing is torque. When you wind | | | | words, your back foot begins to get the weight. |
| up for the backswing, you rotate and twist your | | | | Next, there is a twisting motion in your torso, |
| body on the axis of your torso. Physically, you're like | | | | shoulders and lower back. Your exercise routine |
| a tightly wound spring, full of potential energy. | | | | should definitely work the muscles you'll use here. It's |
| The downswing is the release of that energy. The | | | | important for the motion to be fluid and relaxed, so |
| potential energy becomes kinetic energy, and it's all | | | | your lower back muscles should be in good shape. |
| that stored energy and not the golf club that really | | | | - Downswing. This is where that stored energy gets |
| smacks that ball and sends it flying. | | | | released. But, it happens gradually. It starts with the |
| Golf Uses The Whole Body | | | | "transition," where the coil reaches its upper-most |
| Nowadays, golfers realize that golf doesn't just | | | | point. |
| require your arms and shoulders. When you swing for | | | | There is a split second where your lower body starts |
| the golf ball, you use your whole body. Biomechanics | | | | to release and the upper body is still stretching back |
| looks at the way the body works together to create | | | | in the coil. This is an important split second actually, |
| that golf swing. | | | | because there is some additional elastic energy in this |
| Through biomechanics, we've learned that a golfer's | | | | movement that gets released when you swing. |
| whole body has to be in great shape. Recommended | | | | The downswing is the release of all that stored |
| training exercises for golfers have gone from simple | | | | energy. Your lower body muscles are especially |
| swing training to whole body fitness programs and | | | | important here. The unwinding starts in the lower |
| weight training. Keeping your whole body in good | | | | body and works its way up, all the way to your club |
| shape will help improve your swing. | | | | as it impacts with the ball. Then, it releases all that |
| Let's look at the biomechanics of golfing | | | | stored energy and your ball goes flying. |
| step-by-step. | | | | Learning about the biomechanics of the golf swing |
| - Address. In your address position, your muscles are | | | | can be a real bonus to your game. Just ask Tiger |
| fairly relaxed. What the address requires is good | | | | Woods, who has set new records with his golf swing |
| balance. Your training for the address should focus on | | | | speed. As a young man, he studied the biomechanics |
| this. Most of your muscles are not active, but are in a | | | | of golf and used it to improve his swing and create a |
| ready position. | | | | whole-body fitness plan. You can see the results! |
| Good balance in the address position means that | | | | |