Why 99% of Golfers Struggle To Increase Their Swing Speed!

This video dives into why a lot of golfers (we’re talking 99% of all golfers) struggle to increase their swing speed and two simple moves you can do, one for the lower body and another for the upper body that’s going to give you an increase in swing speed. I’d had students gain as much as 5 -10 miles per hour on their swing so this is certainly worth a watch!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:30 The Lower Body Move
11:07 The Upper Body
12:49 Combining The 2
16:02 Using Driver
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As soon as a tell golfers I used to train for more speed and went through 117 to 1180 mph on average all the way up to swinging over 130 mph Club at speed the two main questions I get asked are number one how did I do it but the

Second one is why can’t you why can’t I increase my swing speed these golfers tell me they’ve tried everything speed training hitting the gym eating the right Foods tracking all the data but still struggled to see any results at B test a couple of miles an hour more on

The launch bitor well doing this one simple key about to show you you could possibly be missing out on as much as 5 to 10 m an hour on your swing speed but before we reveal this allow me to introduce myself I’m Harry for those of

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The Subscribe button as I am posting content like this three times a week to help you transform your golf game so going back to this key then to unlock your true swing speed potential it’s really important that we understand that the lower body and the upper body play

Different roles in the swing and to maximize the speed we want to be knowing how we can get this lower body to initiate in the down swing but also how we can get the upper body to get this whip effect on the way through and both

Of these combined to form a much quicker and more reliable SW swing so kicking off with the lower body and I want you to picture the lower body as the engine to that car we drive if you want to be swinging quick if we want to be driving

Faster we need to get this engine working as efficiently and as fast as possible and to do this many golfers think they need rotation all the way up to top of the swing and all the way down and through to impact and you are right if you’re thinking this but we need

Another combination of two other aspects to make sure we’re getting this lower body initiating correctly in the down swing the other two are the tilt and getting the ground reaction force to take place so to begin with then you don’t need a golf come you’re just going

To set up as you usually would and you’re going to take your hands across the shoulders like this here from this position here all you’re going to do is try and get your back to face towards the target so for anyone in the indoor gol facilities like I am here you trying

To get your back facing towards the net your target all the way up to the top of the swing and what you’ll notice when you’re doing this is that your right hip will just naturally rotate away from that golf ball the same thing applies on the down swing and through phase if we

Imagine now we’re going to get the chest working towards the target we’ll start to notice this lead hip of ours work away from the golf ball getting this rotation this natural rotation to take place in the swing so once we’ve done a couple of swings moving back and

Rotating up to the top and rotating through to finish you can see here all I’m thinking about is back to Target chest to Target and it’s initiating these hips to work away from the golf ball we can then bring in the tilt of phase two so now we’re going to take our

Hands and place them either side of our thighs like so and all I want you to do just for the time being is forget about trying to rotate so you’re just going to tilt like this here so I’m trying to extend the trail side of my upper body

Okay really get this stretch move taking place and you can see here I’m allowing my right arm as a right-handed goal for the trail arm to lift upwards as my lead arm tilts downwards towards the Lead Foot there can really feel this stretch taking place so you can exaggerate this

The more you exaggerate this the better you don’t have to go all the way down here and feel this horrendous stretch just somewhere almost towards your knee if not slightly above the knee I’ve got uh longer arms so it’s easy for me to get to the knee so just think to a point

Ever so slightly above that knee there once you’ve done this tilted you can then start to bring the next point which is the follow-through stage again we’re trying to get this extension in the lead side of the body so no rotation taking place just for the time being we’re just

Getting this motion here to take place as well now we’re trying to get our Trail arm to almost touch the trail knee so I’m getting this extension here now and flexion now in the trail side so with from here up to the top getting this extension in the trail side an

Extension in the lead side of the body combining that with that rotation all I want you to think now now is because we got the back working towards the Target and getting this hip out of the way think of hip rotating away as we’re getting this tilt to take place so hip

Away tilt to take place up to the top of your swing so really extending this Trail side of the body all the way up to the top of your swing and you can see that I’m getting a much greater amount of rotation up to the top of the swing

From doing this and you can see here how much better that rotation looks now just because I’m adding this tilt into place before we were rotating the tendency is for us to get a little bit too lateral so from this movement here having this tilt taking place allows me to stay very

Much so on this 45° angle here so we’re rotating and we’re tilting up to the top of the swing and the same thing applies on the down swing so lead hip is now moving away from the golf ball chest is working towards the Target and we’re feeling this extension taking place in

The lead side of the body so it’s extension and rotation up to the top of the Swing here then extension and rotation all the way through to the finish position and then eventually you can start to bring this chest working back to Target on the way through so how

This looks all in one motion up to the top through to finish so we’re rotating and we’re tilting in our swing so we’ve got the rotation we’ve got the tilting taking place and now he want to be adding in this final concept think of these two here as like the two keys that

Help you gain more consistency with increasing that swing speed because you’re doing this more efficiently getting that engine working the correct motion but now we need to get the engine working harder and this we produce the ground reaction forces so what I want you to think here is if I was to just

Try and jump as high as I can okay I’m not going to jump too high otherwise I’d hit my head on the trapman but if I was to jump as high as I can what would I need to do to jump upwards we would go down to jump up the same thing happens

In the golf swing in order for us to produce more power through the ground we’ve got to be squatting down into the ground and adding more pressure creating more pressure through the ground to generate this effortless more swing speed that we’re after so to do this all

You’re going to do is take your hands get them back on your thighs like so and as you’re swinging to the top everything stays normal everything stays normal from the top so we’re still thinking about this till tilt this rotation taking place and I would recommend just

Going and working on those two pointers just for at least 10 swings so back and forth before you begin to add the third thing in but now you’ve done this let’s just say let’s add that third thing in so tilt and rotate up to the top of the

Swing and back to Target from this point now we want to be adding more pressure into the ground without moving our upper body so now the key here is the lower body really initiating to the ground and the more you can exaggerate this the better too many golfers I see Will first

Off try and add this pressure transfer their weight almost too early think of those ground reaction forces if we’re going to add pressure in this direction okay for every force acting on a stationary object there’s an equal and exact opposite force acting upon it so if it’s react well if we’re pushing down

In this direction it’s going to be pushed back away so this is where we tend to get this early extension this reverse Center of pressure taking place in our down swing this leaning back early extending away from the golf ball so when you’re doing this it’s really

Important that we ensure that all the pressure is 50/50 in each foot and we’re adding it straight into the ground so we’re up to the top tilt and rotate and then we’re squatting down and as I mentioned Le the more you exaggerate this the better and I know what you’re

Thinking now hang on a sec that looks like we’re dipping way too much in height this is just because you’re exaggerating this as much as you can when it comes to to hitting a few golf shots and combining this upper body move I’m going to explain later on it won’t

Happen anywhere near as much it’s just going to feel like you’re adding more pressure to gain this more relaxed swing speed this much quicker swing speed is what I meant to say there so up to the top adding this pressure here and then for the final step here all we’re going

To do is we’re going to push upwards and get this chest working again towards the target getting this hip clearing out the way and ex extending upwards all the way through to the finish position so how this works in combination the three we’ve got the rotation we’ve got the

Tilt we’ve got that ground reaction force taking place now from the top we’re tilting and rotating up to the top of our swing getting that back working towards the target then we’re squatting down pressing down into the ground adding this pressure and if you want you

Can hold it for a minute just to get a good feel for where this is and you can see here’s a good indication for you by the way I don’t want to see any of you go this way we’re not going to rotate and squat down at the same time if we

Rotate and squat down at the same time where’s the pressure moving moving into this F so we’re going to get the reaction and jump away so we’re going up to the top adding the pressure here you can see that my chest my upper body is not moving I’m just squatting down from

Here now we’re pushing up and chest working towards the target as you start to do this in stages one 2 3 you can then after a few swings get used to doing this all in one motion and to do this it just takes a couple of reps by

Going nice and slow and trying to get the pauses taking place for a shorter amount of time here’s a good example of one where we’re taking too long with the paes to try and get it all in one motion okay there’s a lot of pausing there in between you can see that right

So with this one here I’m going nice and slow one 2 three you can see it’s all working into one motion there it didn’t look like on the camera that there was a pause did there on any of those steps in between well it did feel like there was

For me so if you do this nice and slow you can really allow yourself to start building this into all in one motion and then from there you can begin to build this up into a much quicker more efficient lower body move getting that initiation in that down swing so it’s up

Down through up down through so now you’ve got used to that we can start to bring in a club into this because now it’s time to move on to how the upper body and the arms should be working getting this whip effect to take place in the golf swing too many golfers end

Up getting this almost stiff lock in their golf swing trying to get in all sorts of positions on the down swing and the trouble with this is it’s very difficult to generate more speed doing this more efficient faster swing speed in your golf game so the key to this is

Allowing the arms and the shoulders just to relax let the shoulder joints just roll around for a minute allow the arms just to flow and take all this stiffness out the arms because you’re going to find it so much easier to get this whip effect taking place in the swing and if

I was to completely forget about positions for now and just make a swing with my arms just allowing this almost whip to take place dead relaxed letting them do whatever they want it’s much easier to create speed you can even do a couple of practice swings doing this one-handed I wouldn’t recommend doing

Too many with one hand but just have a couple of swings allowing this club to whip through and you can hear that noise there taking place just from me are getting this arm to flow not caring at all about positions in the down swing you can see there so much easier for me

To create speed as opposed to keeping this arm tense trying to get into positions I can’t physically get that club to swing any quicker than that whereas if you listen to this so much easier and now you’ve got this whipping effect taking place you understand what it feels like to get

This whip taking place relaxing the upper body in the arms we can start to bring in this combination of the lower body and the upper body in the go swing to take place so you can see here I’ve got a high lofted iron just to start off with I’d recommend this rather than

Going straight into driver because all we’re interested in is getting this speed and then we can apply this to every single Club in the back so both hands on the club but a dress is normal and all we’re going to do is we’re going to get this hip working away from that

Golf ball as we remember from that rotation and getting this tilt taking place up to the top of the swing with our aim to get that back facing towards the target so in simple terms we getting that back facing towards the Target and you can see I’m not forcing my arms

Keeping them tends to swing and get them into these positions I’m going to allow this initiation of that lower body to take the club all the way up to the top of the Swing I’m getting this rotation and tilt and just watch this relax the

Arms and if I do this I’m just allowing the club to set in the top of the Swing more naturally keeping them relaxed keeping the shoulder joints relaxed and the arms relaxed working all the way up to the top of the Swing yes there got to

Be a little bit of tension in the grip just to keep hold of the club but I would just let everything flow forget about positions in the swing don’t worry about it just let the body take the club to the top of the swing for you getting

This rotation tilt and getting this club to work up to the top of the Swing so for the second point we’re just simply squatting down adding that pressure into the ground really encouraging this feeling here and you can see just a little bonus tip for you I’m not moving

My arms down I’m not forcing them on the outside too many golfers I notice when they do this they go this way again you can see it I’m rotating and squatting at the same time it’s causing that club now to work too far out to win so just make sure when

You’re doing this work it up to the top and squat down holding this angle as you add in that pressure into the ground just remembering the golf swing it’s only going to be for a split second in the down swing that move is going to take place so we’ve got stage one

Rotating and tilting up to the top stage two adding this pressure into the ground stage three three we’re pushing upwards getting that chest to work towards the Target and we’re whipping that club through so back to Target for the back swing squat down push off and whip that

Club through and now we can start to bring this into a couple of full swings and I’d recommend you doing at least 10 to 15 practice swings in steps before you start to then bring this all into one motion and again to get this all in one motion it’s going slow again just

Like we were working on with that lower body getting this rotation and tilt pressure down working it through pushing upwards chest to Target but we’re just whipping that club on the way through relaxing the upper body so we’re going up down through there it is all in one

Flow and it’ll be much easier for you as you start to bring this quicker on the way through to get that natural whip taking place nice and slow to begin with up and that felt really nice steady easy for me to do and then once you’ve hit a

Couple of shots getting used to that we can start to bring in the dri and do the same thing with the driver it’s going to feel slightly different because the weight’s going to change it’s going to feel heavier in the head for the majority of players out there trying

This so from this movement here we’re swinging up to the top pressure down push off rather than getting tense I can’t get a lot of speed doing that so we’re getting up down and whip the club through pushing off the ground getting this whip to take place on the

Way through I just realized I forgot a te for this let me just get a te and then I’ll hit a shot for you just to finish right then so the key to remember for those of you who are going to try this and I would highly recommend giving

This a try and persevering with this by the way so now you’ve got the lower body and uper body working in an efficient way how can we progress from this if you’d like me to create a follow-up video based on this topic and how we can maintain and push your boundaries and

Increase our swing speed even more create a plan together a video for this make sure you drop a comment down below I’d like to see at least 10 comments down below asking for this video and I’ll get planning on that for you and if you’ve come this far you may as well

Check out my recent upload up here or if you’re interested to learn more about my speed training I documented this on a playlist down in the corner just there so feel free to click on that if you’d like to see more about that thanks for watching

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