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While the brain controls the movement, it is the muscles that
create it. If you are like nearly every other golfer in the
world, you are neglecting HALF the equation. Muscular strength
is the missing factor in golf.
The development of skill in golf serves one basic purpose:
it enables you to use the strength of your muscles with greater
efficiency. Your hours on the practice tee hone your ability
to use your muscles, but what are you doing for your muscles?
Skill training and strength training must both be attended
to. The benefits to your game will go far beyond longer distance
off the tee. Proper full-range exercise will simultaneously
develop strength, enhance flexibility, and provide cardiovascular
conditioning. What is the cost to you and your busy schedule?
It is not more than one hour of exercise per week.
Motor Control – Where Does the Swing Come From?
A muscle is nothing more than a machine made out of proteins
and water. It has no knowledge of the use to which it is being
put. It is purely the brain, and not the muscles, that differentiates
a five-iron swing from a wedge. Proper skill training improves
the ability of the brain to coordinate large numbers of muscle
in complex movements. Great changes in golfing skill may result
from attention to the neural or motor control component alone.
What about the muscles? How will a stronger, larger muscle
fit into the golf equation?
There is widespread fear among golfers that stronger muscles
will be more difficult to control, that they will become “muscle
bound,” that they will lose their “touch.”
All unfounded fears, as athletes from nearly every sport have
reported, and as science explains. Proper strength training
simply gives the brain a more efficient and more powerful
tool to control. Given continued skill training while strength
is developed, the brain quite easily learns to control its
improving engines. Skill clearly does not suffer from strength
training.
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