Tight, Weak, Painful Golf..
Filling out questions, forms and assessments is all about getting your mind right.
I mean, we’re basically trying to find out what most golfers suffer from (Or at least they think they suffer with) is their body at some point.
They feel their body feels tight or,
feels weak or,
it feels painful, and they either know it’s affecting their golf or they don’t realise how much it’s affecting their golf.
The point is as you start to get older, if you don’t start focusing on how you improve your body then what will happen is the body slowly gets worse, as every year passes, because of the amount of force that’s being put on it for a golf swing.
And, when you add in those same awkward positions from work whether it’s the way you sit or use your body that hinders how you hit a golf ball, some people travel, four or five hours per day in a car and you know this affects their golf.
Any of this tightness can lead to weakness, which can lead to tiredness which ends up coming down to a lack of motivation, and then you know the body’s the furthest thing from being powerful or feeling powerful and being able to have a powerful golf swing.
Shifting to their mindset part of it, they now lack the confidence and have to fake confidence or they have to start making excuses…
“I haven’t been playing well recently” and obviously this all affects their Golf anyway because the mind is already set up for failure.
This belief that the body feels tired, weak, or painful stops them from moving forward in a lot of ways.
People get caught up in this story of pain, or tightness or weakness the body actually makes that TRUE.
If you ain’t got range of motion in a certain area,
You’re not going to go into that range of motion, because your brain is trying to protect it.
This is why when someone hurts their knee, and they limp then the pain goes away and this keep the limp for longer than the pain.
They’ve built the movement pattern into the body.
This can happen in the mind as well.
People have patterns that stop them from moving forward.
And that’s why, I work with anyone we need to get clear on where they are, right now, what are the Figures today…
If a golfer feels weak is it because of ain or past pain…
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When I used to do the full treatment days at golf courses we would see golfers who look like they suffer from a huge lack of flexibility and with assessment a lot of the range of motion, (That they haven’t got) was just their own brain, putting the block on because they think they don’t have the motion..
Then we would work through certain simple movements and the range of motion, the flexibility was there all along.
I did a clubhouse talk the other week and a pro asked me “what do you define as golf fitness” and to me it very simple.
It is anything you do to your body that makes you better.
It doesn’t have to be a specific exercise (we use everything through the fairway 4 system) it’s just something that makes you better, play better, think clearer, act better, behave better, wherever makes you better.
That could be simple breathing exercises or it could be your getting under heavy squats.
Again, that’s why we always go back to the fairway four part of the figures(Fairway 4 is Figures, Focus, Fitness, Function) where are you now, what is your data telling us,
what is your range of motion,
what does your TPI screen say,
how much power do you feel you have, compared to the power you used to have and then from there, we can build something out.
So, in my opinion, the best thing anyone can do is try and find out where they are now…
What does your range of motion tell you about where you are trying to go and what could get worse?
Inside the FREE Unbreakable golfers app, go to The screen and assessment and just work through it and see where you’re stuck and how this links to where you are stuck on a golf course.
Because when you link the two together, it gives you the leverage on yourself to move forward.
So what I suggest you do if you don’t know where your body is screen yourself.
If you think you’ve got an issue with your body and how its affecting your golf and your mind on the golf course try and get some measurable data,
because with that measurable data, you’ll be much clearer on the way to move forward.
There’s more than enough free information in this app for you to walk through that.
If you want it, it’s here.
https://www.unbreakablegolfers.com
John Seton
