RSA Heavy Club Training Program
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For most of us, being right handed means our left hand isn't very strong or coordinated. As you know, the left hand controls the club face and is responsible for your impact conditions, which at the end of the day, is all that matters. That means your left hand is extremely important to you being a consistent and powerful ball striker. This program will help you develop the strength and coordination necessary to play elite level golf while reinforcing the training of the left hand - a win-win!
Today's program is a little bit more advanced and this is after you've kind of mastered some of the critical movements and you want to start developing some golf specific strength and one of the easiest ways and best ways to do that is with a weighted golf club you don't have to buy one of these special clubs you can buy one of the donuts that you slide down the shaft and sits down on the hosel I have a weighted club here you can use whatever you like just something with some mass in it back in the day I used to take my old golf shafts and fill them full of sand to add an even mass across there so whatever you want to do is fine just something with a little bit more heft to it than your normal golf club like I said donut little two dollar donuts work just fine so now what you're gonna focus on here what I primarily like to do is strengthening the small golf muscles that are really difficult to train and doing other things and you really kind of only use them in golf and specifically what we're dealing with is typically how to balance and poise the club at the top without death gripping it and how to release the club properly without holding on to the club too tight especially with our dominant hand the best way to start out with that is focusing on these last two and three fingers on your release hand your left hand if you're a right-handed golfer and what I want to do it first today is have you start out with your right hand now this is gonna seem a little weird but I want you to do it with your dominant hand first because what you'll find is that you'll be able to probably hold on to the club a lot easier and you'll start to feel when you have a deficit so all I want you to do right now I'm not gonna get specific about how to move hopefully by now we've kind of got that idea this is more advanced stuff so I'm just rotating to the top as if I'm making a left-handed golf swing and then swinging down and releasing it the key thing that you're gonna notice is that I'm only holding on to the club with the last three fingers my thumb and forefinger are not even on the golf club now with a weighted club you may find this is very difficult first and that's why we're doing this drill so full backswing release and you should be really holding on at the very end of the golf club with the last three fingers and especially the last two so do 10 to 15 reps with your dominant hand you'll start to notice some different things you may feel that the club release is a little bit better at the bottom with your stronger hand you may feel like you post up a little bit better with the dominant side of your body and then after you've done 10 or 15 switch hands left hand only no thumb and forefinger and do the exact same drill and feel two things I want you to focus on as you're doing this drill one is what you feel at the top do you have to hold on tighter at the top to keep the club from being all over the place and then two can you release the club the same at the bottom or is it different do you feel like you sometimes a lot of times we do this stuff with our left hand we hold the club face open and lead through this way I want the club to release and the easiest way to do that is to only hold the club with the last two fingers club will release really easily every single time at the bottom so but some of the same things we've been working on right shoulder right ankle left ankle left hip and release you do 10 or 15 reps like that switch back to your dominant hand give this one a break because with the weighted club it's very gonna be very challenging at first if your golf muscles and these left forearms are really weak this will show you why you're probably having a difficult time controlling the clubface angle not that you need a ton of strength but a little bit is required to really control what that clubface is doing with with a lot of precision so we're gonna train this side to release correctly because it's gonna be a lot easier for a lot of us who are right -handed switch back over to the left same thing last three fingers only no thumb no forefinger even at the top of the club or top of the swing I don't want you to have your thumb on there you should be able to control it with just the last three fingers now after you've done call it 50 60 reps I want you to take a normal golf club and do the exact same thing now you're gonna feel like hey man I can release the snot out of this golf club you're gonna feel like you have way more speed which is the whole point of the heavy club the regular golf club is gonna feel very light to you now and you should be able to feel the club has a lot of zip in it because you've been working so hard to just hold on to it at the very end to get the maximum shaft length out of it and a proper release that now this becomes a piece of cake so when you want to use a heavy club to strengthen it strengthen these golf specific muscles I highly recommend doing dominant hand first release the club last three fingers only switch over to your left hand do that 10 or 15 minutes a day that's quite a bit especially with a heavy club on your weaker hand on your weaker side and just use the last three fingers and you'll start to finally pick up a regular golf club you're gonna feel like you have a lot more control
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