Carl Reader has a BSc (Med)(Hon) Biokinetics (Exercise Therapy) Degree from the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Based in Cape Town, South Africa he has over 20 years of experience and expertise in helping golfers of all levels optimize their functional movement patterns to move and play better. Learn more about Carl Reader at https://carlreadercoaching.com/golf/.

Carl makes a second appearance on our podcast to discuss his theory on “Right Side Posture Bias” and how that can adversely affect a golf-swing. As he elaborates on the concept he illustrates the issues it creates:

Improper posture, aim and alignment An inability to get to the lead or front side in the down-and-through swing, and An inability to properly and powerfully clear the hips through impact As he addresses those maladies he talks about the mindset of golfers who suffer from Right Side Posture biases. He also illustrates how this syndrome is oftentimes the cause of lower back pain.

He also shares moves, drills and remedies for this posture bias: Techniques for muscle release and stretches to alleviate tightness and pain, and Releasing muscles by way of strength training as opposed to stretching, and Overall body awareness.
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This man has been on this show one time before during the co lockdown back in 2020 he’s from a HomeTown in South Africa and he’s back there is if you’re watching on YouTube Kyle reader welcome to the show how have you been yeah good Mark thanks for having me back yeah I

Can’t believe it’s been already three years since we last chatted yeah time flies when you’re having fun and you’ve been a busy dude I mean you’re growing your uh your your your your training your physiotherapy all all your business you’re growing in a big way aren’t you

It’s going really well yeah the golf Market is always exciting place to be and um you know like golf you’re just always going from one next level to the next level and learning new things let’s put you into perspective please I’ve mentioned you from South Africa the

Southern tip there down where all the cool kids are from um but for the folks who didn’t listen to the last podcast tell us a little bit about you and how you came to where you from yeah so I I grew up in South Africa

I was fortunate to play golf at a young age of five and I had always passion for the human body and heart moved and I had two parents had had really bad water ski accidents and started rehabbing them not as a professional when I was about 10

And 12 years old and then as I went through into my golf and I started studying biokinetics which is like exercise physiology or exercise therapy and also had my own niggles and back pains that that was caused from golf and injuries and was able to just you know

Not only personally overcome those but you know watch my parents recover and so it’s been a long 24 years of of working with back pain and um yeah and able to see the huge the huge changes and and advances not even in science but just in

How we address and deal with that pain yeah Hey listen before we before we get into the topic which is fascinating when you pitched it to me um every show that I’m ever on and I’m asked to Pine on PGA Tour results and and upand cominging stars and stuff like that I always

Preface my observation with look my first wish is for said golfer to just remain healthy and and then I have experts on the show like you and then everyone talks about being assessed properly because we all trying to do stuff in our swing but you know we the

Victim of our own maladies and and and everyone’s downloaded this thing watching it listening you know we’ve all got our little things that we deal with and they have a far-reaching effect on the golf swing because I think at times and I want you to agree or disagree you

Know we got the best intentions in our mind to do this with our swing but there’s this hindrance from ourselves physically and that’s where that’s where you see so much business huh yeah I call like the physical drag you know it’s like it literally just it’s just like a

Road block and um or a handbreak on our on our on our performance but just life in general it’s just it’s it’s the good news though especially for listeners is that you know once you know how to assess those handbrakes you can release them pretty quickly it’s not

Something that needs to take years and years but yes it’s exactly what you’re saying and I think it’s more and more we appreciating how just how much that that our number one piece of equipment is the body and I think that’s we’ve seen that from the professionals but just the

Average person that’s retiring or you know coming into those sweet years you know they they wanted they want to make the most out of life and enjoy their golf hey help me with this um sadly I’m you can accuse me of this we rarely sadly only start paying attention to

Things we have to do physically once there’s an injury or some severe pain or something we’re dealing with then we start paying attention sadly in my estimations unless the except for the golfers at the highest level because it’s their body and their their money maker but the rest of us are just going

Along haphazardly um you know one blink of an eye from injury and that’s when we start paying attention help folks to get the discipline of of being proactive about you know remaining staying in shape sure so much of it it’s a mindset but also I think we’ve been we’ve been

Fed this thing that you’ve got to do so much work to achieve that and actually if you look at the you know we call the Paro principle the 8020 like 80% of the results come from 20% and what you do so you actually find that like we know

We’ve heard this before like you know less is more it’s when you understand that you don’t need to do a lot to actually get to get the health benefits or the breakthroughs so you know some people think they got to train five times a week and they got to lift all

These weights and it’s it just seems like this huge amount of workload that just couldn’t be bothered unless you’re like Ultra Ultra disciplined but that the truth is actually is that there a it’s not like there’s nothing you can do because you got to obviously work but

It’s it’s just to get to encourage people that you’ll be amazed at how much results you can get from not doing lot so I’m not advocating being C but it’s yeah I think that’s a big roadblock for a big mindset for people to oh I’ve got

To go to the gym five times a week you know and then people see you know like the New Year’s resolution so maybe this podcast is more timely you know like yeah I’m going to get in shape and then you go to the gym and you feel so over

AED by the whole thing you’re like oh goodness I see this Beast over here and that woman over there is out doing me and you you kind of feel self-conscious a bit and people start avoiding it because of that too correct yeah absolutely there’s a lot of external

Pressures that we that we you mentioning as well yeah uh the previous podcast folks who haven’t listened go search for in the archives tell your friends it was about functional movements and the one thing I loved about what Carl did to his point was like you don’t have to lift

Heavy weights and stuff there’s certain functional movements that if you practice and you do you’re going to put yourself on the front foot to improve it okay to that um this was so cool so interesting and I was looking forward to talking to to you about this where you

Talked about what was essentially a a right side for right handers or a trail side bias that has all of these effects and sort of Ripple movements throughout golf throughout the golf swing and such and it was a bias toward the trail side so let’s tee the thing off there give us

Like the 36,000 foot View and then we’ll dive in yeah so I mean just working with golfers just in general on the medical side and doing rehab we know notice that that that there’s this right sided bias that we tend to get stuck or we’ve got our weight shifted towards the right

Side and and as you said that the trail side and it’s just been really interesting because we we focus so much on muscles but actually it’s a it’s a system it’s it’s the The Body Works the muscles are all part of like a kinetic system and and I’m I’m just moving away

From this idea of just trying to pinpoint one or two muscles but sort to improve the system so this right sided thing or left started sometimes the golf who left-handed is been a really breakthrough for me because it’s it’s not I’ve personally have this this right

Sided bus but it’s it’s just I noticed that in so many golfers and it’s it’s working with back pain and it’s kind of like being the big picture like you said like what is going on here we we’ve got parts of the puzzle but now we’ve really

Sort of see it like you said from 36,000 it’s actually this right sided bias and and how do we and we’re going to obviously get unpack it just now but yeah so it’s just been fascinating because I I brought it into the golf industry as well and said hey is this

The same with golfers and it was even more on golfers and we’ll touch on that why just not oh so it’s so it’s basically across the board because as you know when I read you texted or emailed or whatever it was and when I read the opening line the inquiring

Minding me went to like well I guess I can see this because you know for right-handers we stand to the side of the ball the T Target soft to our left we’re used to looking at things with two eyes and so to see the target you kind

Of fall back can look towards the target if you will um so I started wondering like the origination of all of this I mean could you pinpoint that or is it just a little bit of everything well it’s we remember we we’re talking about just from a postural point of view so

When you do weight balance analysis and foot pressures and where the rib cage is and I think it’s good time good segue into just describing what that right sided posture looks like you know so it’s essentially you’ve got this the body actually just if I’m stand here the

Body actually is slightly turned to the and it’s going to be obviously opposite to you in the camera but it’s turned to the it’s turned to the right and what that does it it just pushes your left hip forward slightly down and then it pulls the right pelvis out so your whole

Pelvis mechanics is out of alignment and then you’ve got this idea of that that when this turns I’m G other way around for you guys there the right drops down and so you get this compression of the right shoulder right neck um rib cage on the right gets tight right jaw gets s

Right eye right it’s it’s fascinating tenus on the right ear as well like that that that that ringing sound um but for for the average golfer or your amateur golf or anyone that you you’ll notice if you have you put those those sticks across or a golf club across your

Shoulder you tend to be facing way off to the right on the golf range or and you’re like and then you have to go through you know we’ll get into the whole setup thing now but it’s just fascinating and then sorry the right ankle is a big thing because your right

Ankle gets gets locked and it can’t actually turn as you go and clear on to left and we’ll touch unpack that just now as well I am I could had completely backward I thought right side bias is almost falling onto the right side and kind of opening up to the Target but as

You demonstrate and folks you can see it on YouTube Kyle stood up and and it’s like the Torso is rotated off to like almost away from the target for the right hander left it’d be opposite and it’s minimal it’s not not not not like over but it’s just that slight rotation

Right like as you said if you put a golf club across your shoulders you’ll notice that they tend to be more to the right interesting look I mean that would obviously then help the back swing but that would make getting through the golf shot a little harder if a golf is really

Not athletic inclin huh 100% And that’s that’s what we want to unpack is that just especially for am golfs and for pros there’s a few Pros have been working with this here in South Africa and you can see they just don’t they struggle to clear that left hip they

Struggle to get that good rotation the you know to to sort Prime that rotation on the right get a nice right rotation onto the right heel and they can get through on the left but they they just can’t move through there and it’s it’s just when you start seeing it through

All the golf and and even in the general public it’s it’s it’s that’s why I’ve reached out to you said there’s a pattern here that’d be very interesting for the listeners to to understand more about I just came off the lesson T and I had a really good golfer Advanced guy

Was shot in the 60s um and his ball striking was just a little off and I was showing him how I didn’t feel like his pelvis was supporting his arm swing enough because he felt like you know my swing’s too steep I’m cutting across the ball it’s not just struck well few heel

Strikes and I showed him how I didn’t feel like the the whole thing was originating from the pelvis and then when he got to try and I hate to say this hitting the ball less but propelling the swing more with his legs his pelvis that sort of engine of the

Golf swing the rest of it the swing play and everything lined up and I can sort of hear you now because if you turned a little to your right right-hander and there’s a ball on the ground down there I can see how so many Club golfers would

Then just heave the club over the top H down two on the thing just in an effort to get back to it huh 100% And you’ll notice of the pros they just they just really get on to left side and and not only that they beautiful rotations with

The Torso they really clear where your am golfers and and other you can see they just never really get onto or everything the heel comes off the ground as they want to turn and so is it’s it’s it’s a fascinating thing but as you said we segue into the other things like the

The alignments and and and back pain and well let’s do that let’s let’s go right there let let’s go to the right because the alignment because you said it’s basically a right side posture bias that is always not on effect and actually the first one that I listed I wanted to talk

About because I was kind of thinking of the Genesis of it all was the mindset that causes this so let’s talk about the mindset then we’ll get into the alignment please oh I’m glad you’re going there because that’s that’s the key you know so when you look at the the

Human body that and let me get into the anatomy here but under the rib cage you have the diaphragm and the frame is is double the size on the right now viewers watching this it’s going to feel like it’s on the left but it’s on your right

Hand my right hand side it’s double the size of the left diaphragm really also then connects yep which because you got the heart you’ve got the heart yeah so you got the heart on the on the left or in the middle left here so you’ve got this already got this asymmetry in the

Body now it’s not a design fault uh and some of the people who are in the industry saying oh this is a problem with it’s not it’s not a design fault at all it’s just that when we talk about the mindset because breathing and the hip flexes are those are familiar with

The hip flexes the muscles that raise the legs when you walk or it has a huge effect on the spine as well the hip flexes are directly cor connected to the diaphragm so they they’re intimately connected through the fascia and through the connections and why I’m getting to

This now is the mindset is Left sided brain controls right sided body although science is showing that that’s it’s it’s getting a bit gray there because we can see the different Connections in the frontal brain but the thoughts and the patterns that we have make us more on

The left side some those thoughts especially you know I’m guilt to this as well but like we look at the things like perfectionism striving too hard over analytical um giving too much attention to detail is and and and another one is fear or like you know if you’re worried

About the water on the left on the tea box or you’re like worried about your score that that puts you onto left it puts you onto that right side so what I find amazing is like when you hit when you’ve hit your worst shot ever and you

Just you don’t care about your score anymore the next shot’s probably one of the best shots you’ve ever hit you know because you you just you’ve just just you just said I don’t care anymore and so then you Swatch over to right brain which then causes your left side to

Clear and that’s why often people this is a huge generalization but their bad shots just they just don’t get through or they just block it or they don’t get onto left side then you’ll know more about that in terms of coaching so it’s it’s fascinating the mindset as a big part to

Planet I you know as you’re talking and the folks listening on audio I’m watching as Carl is describing he’s moving around the place and showing moving through the ball getting behind and such and there’s a movement now and it’s very much a function of all the ground reaction force experts where the

Long drivers they’re not static before they hits like Kyle Burkshire is the currently the longest driver and the fastest ball speed he rocks from front foot to back foot and when the club goes back he rocks onto his front foot correct and and there’s this it’s it’s

Almost as weird because I see what you’re saying it’s like it’s almost like stuff going back he’s not turning but there’s different movement it’s not like he’s leaning off to his right side and his Trail side and turning is am I reaching yeah no you’re 100% it’s that

It’s that if you see the video here like it’s said you got the it’s difficult YouTube because when I turn to my right it looks like I’m turning left on the YouTube video but it’s from here it’s that you can really get through and move that through onto left side and it’s

That clearing and allowing you to shift your weight onto that left side that’s where where the power is and that and that and that’s where you get that you know obviously that energy that comes through that acceleration of the club through but it’s just it’s it’s it’s we

Talking at at a very like as you said deep level here you know it’s it’s it’s it’s and also how the muscles are tightened so if you want to have a good hip rotation on the right you’ve got to have a loose you got to have a have a

Flexible right butu you know the glutes have got to be able to release and let them the hip rotate and most people gain generalization yeah but a lot of people are very tight in the buts and you’ll see a lot of golfers doing all those glute stretches and trying to release

That for that exact reason so they can get a better hip tun but then the problem is that you know even if you do get that if you don’t get step onto left side and actually clear and use those those those that left system then you you you’re never going to get that

Clearing effect or that that contact and what you did was bring that guy on the Range almost back back into that sort of get him off his right side I’m assuming that I did and and the crazy thing too was the balance in his golf swing

Improved as well because you know he was obviously just trying to stay upright um there’s this bias you know the whole system to use your term as out of whack and the rest of the time you’re almost fighting balance and then you add momentum to the thing and it becomes a

Little bit Scrappy to be true 100% you know since seeing I’m seeing a lot of guys it’s already this is old school in America already is the speed sticks you know they they they’ve got this thing they swing on their left side they do the normal and then they want to do the

Reverse to train the opposite movement the muscles yeah but what I’m picking up is actually you’re actually reinforcing the right side even though your intentions are good to balance the body you’re now strengthening you know what I mean you’re swinging left-handed knif or right handed golfer so you’re you’re

You’re you are you are essentially training the opposite muscles but if you’ve got this right side bias you’re almost reinforcing that subconsciously you know so I have to be careful when I have the especially when I work with the pros like just just be careful when we

Want to push hard to the right if you do have this kind of posture because you’re reinforcing that poor posture I’m sure it’s quite Nuance Mark I mean I know you appreciate I do and this is why I’m thinking about this going I’ve got to be careful of as

The Shepherd of this conversation because right away I’m like okay cool I’m buying what are the remedies but before we go there I want to touch some of the other issues that this can cause we’ve talked about the mindset uh let’s go to the alignment of it all I mean

Obviously there’s this right side Trail side bias where the body’s rotated ever so slightly to the back swing side talk about how that affects alignment and such yes I that the it’s more a lot of it’s got to be done in the shoulders so you when you stand and your right you

You often will get your right foot stands a little bit further back and then you you obviously if you look down you can see your your feet in alignment you very often people unless if they’re amst and don’t pay attention to alignment which we know as a golfer to

Be a good golf for that’s the one of the number one things is getting good alignment but you’ll see here as a demonstrate how my right shoulder dropped so a lot of golfers don’t even like the amazers w’t pick up on that all they and then if they do have a coach

Then they’ve got to try to make all the kind of like checks and balances are like they’ll say okay I’ve got to get my right shoulder here I’ve got to bring this back I’ve got to tweak this turn that get that fix that and then they’re in their right position and then they

Try to pull the trigger and I mean I don’t know about you but when you have all those things going through your mind and I work with as I said with these professionals and it’s like they’ve got all these checks and balances and you can understand why they have that

Because they really are darling in that alignment but I’ve found as I’ve improved my own this posture that I’m telling you about this right side of BS I I can literally get to the golf ball and and and just literally set up and and if you were to put a club across

Here now I’m actually pretty in pretty Square position you can see even the shoulders there’s no I’m not in any like sort of I’m just pretty level through that okay two questions yes first off is there such a thing as a lead side bias as well or is this predominantly just

The trail side I I what I’m seeing is it is is in in just general posture would be a right right sided B yeah either it’s just but what I’m generally saying here and then too you’re helping me as a teacher here because folks listening you got to go

Check this on YouTube go just search And subscribe um I noticed too because so often I see golfers where I love to see you use the word symmetry earlier so if I dropped just Plum lines from basically their armpits to the ground I’d like those plum lines to kind of clip

Basically their head bones be right in between the insteps of their feet and I see so many golfers where the upper body is sort of inching toward the target a little bit as well and they almost look like the upper segment of their body belt buckle up is to the Target side of

Where the hips and the feet are and then then you’re right then golfers are like well trying to tilt the shoulder back and they’re trying to almost find the center where that could be the influence in what I’m seeing yes yeah and that might be also remember the body

Compensates for these things so he sets a goal for you and also that which eye you use your dominant eye so it all I mean you as a coach you’ll appreciate this more and work a lot more with this but it’s just these all these factors

That come in but what I’m trying to help the average gol for is if we can get onto the this posture and get you to understand about getting onto left side exercise will get you onto left side understand if your ankle can rotate towards that we talk about pronating so

That’s another thing that often in golfers some of them if they got a high arch they they can’t they can’t release the ankle as it goes through on the golf as they swing through so then the back has to take has to back and knees have and hip have to kind of overcompensate

For that some golfers have flat feet that that’s a different story because on the on the back swing you’re not going to get you’re not going to get um stability you’re going to get sort of like a wobbly right hip so that brings other issues as well so there it’s an

Interesting little it’s a very it’s why it’s again reached out to you because it’s a fascinating pattern and I worked with some golfers this morning and and every time they got off the mat they put their left foot to get up from the ground so they’re doing some ground work

To get up they always put their left leg in front I said why you put your left leg in front oh no it’s much stronger so I said to but but aren’t you right footed and right handed oh yes and you you’ll see the guys even if they’re

Right-handed they often will tell you their left side’s much stronger and that’s because the right side is now is under when it’s right side B you have right what we call Neural tension so you’ll find your right hamstrings are tight your right glutes tight even lifting things on the right hand is sore

And it’s heavier so it’s it’s fascinating oh okay I’m I’m hoping you give lessons to on Zoom to people because I’m sure our audience around the world is like I got to get to this guy talked about the alignment yes you basically kissed the fact that if you

This way it’ll be very difficult I don’t know if it’s impossible but very difficult to completely get through to the lead side on the follow-through and you’ve Illustrated earlier it’ll make it very hard to clear and we live in the industry in the era I should say if

You’re watching social media it’s all about body rotation nowadays um you know the swingers the Slingers of the club almost going away so if you wanting to make one of these sort of modern style golf swings with a more sh Club face you can’t be right side biased

Because very hard to rotate through the ball 100% And you know that that swing you’re talking about if you can get that rotation nicely cleared on the right side you get get a nice whipping that sort of that that Tron quick rotation you know so it’s it’s a huge it’s a huge

Drag on on this thing and the other thing which we talk about is the back it puts a lot of strain on the on the lower back okay and again if you are the average golfer where’s your back pain it’s right side on the on the S side joints we call

In Lumber ligament or it’s in the middle of the spine because they just they’re just compressing there so it’s uh that that right side pelvis we talked left side going down it causes the right side pelvis to hike up so you get this ql that’s quite a famous of physical

Therapist and the all these tight muscles back muscles it weakens those back muscles so that that’s another big cause of of of of you know ligament and and no back strain so it’s it’s just there’s so much implications to this yeah okay well the back pain lower right

Back pain people are like listening they’ve perked their ears up um along I want to get to the remedy but first along those lines you you made a statement that I found fascinating because I’ve had lots of people talk on the show talk about flexibility and mobility and all these

Sorts of things and you made the quip you’re like work on release the muscles versus stretching the mus muscles because the first thing when I’m tight you’re going to like stretch yourself out you like rather release the muscles versus stretching to alleviate that pain so please elaborate on that yes so you know

The muscles are in a in a in a in a they work in a in a in a for movement is a sequence so so in order to do any movement there’s a there’s a there’s a pattern there’s a sequence of movements and so if you think about when you have

The the alphabet is to understand a word it’s the correct alignment of the of the words or the sequence of the of the letters will form a word so a good movement will have the muscles firing at the right sequence okay and so when you haven’t got that sequence right say

You’ve got the word uh cat if you’ve got CTA as opposed to C A if a if a is say the head Flex is at the wrong sequence or in the wrong part of the movement no matter how much you stretch and strength and whatever you until you change this

The the ordering or the sequencing of those muscles you’re not going to have get that muscle to release now with stretch ing you get a what we call a neurological there’s obviously a neurological effect because when you stretching muscle you there’s obviously the stretch receptors in the muscles and

You and you actually feel good for maybe two minutes 10 minutes a day but generally you come back the next day it’s tight again until you’ve actually corrected and what I’m saying is when you when you get the muscles on the right sequence and you strengthen the

Muscles that are like like getting onto this left side side and you start to work more left and get the the hamstrings you’ll see that a lot of these muscles just release naturally the body has got an amazing inbuilt sort of what I call the autocorrect you know

Like it’s got an autocorrect system that just dials back or releases that tension so because stretching some people love it and and they enjoy it and there there’s benefits but what I’m just saying that’s you know when you can get the muscles to release it’s it’s it’s

Quick it can be with within a day doesn’t have to be six weeks of a stretched program wow that’s good news all right well no I’m not even joking um well it begs the question then look apart from coming to see Carl reader what are the

Remedies I mean where do we start advise the folks a little bit maybe one or two things they can do at home just to sort of at least get the thinking in the right direction here and start to get movement towards alleviating the issues yeah I think the first thing is is is

How is to set your right side like do you have right tightness do you find that your right back sore or your is your right hamstring when you do stretches when you do glute stretches are you are you tight on that side and then you you know that’s a good sort of

Like in place to feel that you actually maybe are one of one of these people who has this right sided bus and then you know working in rotating left and just doing you know something from obviously at a high level it’s medicine ball ballistic sort of plyometric training

Where they throw the ball to the left hand side but you can just do simple exercises where you just where you’re literally just turning full to the left and just just going back to midline and turning full to the left that you you’re actually completing that whole turn you

Can see how that’s not a full turn there’s a full turn going and getting all those um muscles engaging that down on a cable machine or on a medicine ball or whatever you you I would even say and for the audio listeners what kyl was

Showing there was he just got up was in his golf posture basically and then he was turning through the ball completely with the upper torso and it wasn’t like the shoulders were turning so they were perpendicular to the Target he was trying to get that trail shoulder as far

Around and lead shoulder as far behind as possible almost in a way I’m I’m going to use the wrong vernacular here but when I do that man I feel it down my right side I can feel that side waking up a little yeah know obviously if You’ got

If you got tight back and issues there you’re not going to have that that rotation like I mean I’m I’m fairly Supple and mobile you know so it would be it would be a bad example if I didn’t have that Mobility you know but it’s it’s able to have that rotation but but

That it comes to releases so I’ve got my glutes so glutes and hamstrings another thing for listeners is to focus a lot on the hamstrings because a lot of the stuff in the industry now is to get strong buttocks and there’s nothing wrong with the strong buttocks but it’s

Got to be you got to have strong hamstrings as well and they’re often underlooked and or they are challenged in golf programs but in my opinion um I’ll give an analogy so like there’s a there’s a classic hamstring exercise where people lie on their back and they

Put their ankles on a medic a medicine ball a Swiss ball and you kind of pull back and forth it activates the hamstrings but it’s it’s not that’s not a functional movement sort of hamstring thing so and the other thing with hamstrings they’re very powerful hip

Rotative so just like I said if you got a medicine ball and do like you know like petric throws or just on a cable machine going left and moving full through that movement you’ll get your hamstrings activated as well through there interesting um I’m wondering too because a lot of these rotational

Movements he’s showing folks are through the shot towards the target for the right-hander the Lefty would be the other way around naturally um is this the kind of thing because I remember back in the day Nick falo was teaching me when he had worked on his swing he

Said that he used to practice the back swing with his left foot grounded and his right foot back on the toe and then when he practiced the through swing he’d have his right foot grounded and his left foot back on the toe almost opened up and so that could really let him turn

Through you know but I’m wondering if you kind of get on your left leg only and you start to do these through rotations is that beneficial or am I reaching for something it might be a good way because you know often when you’re coaching you want to exaggerate

Movements even though they it’s not exaggerated just to get people to get that feeling of coming onto the left side but obviously golf’s got to stay balanced you don’t want to be like right onto your left side and you know you don’t it starts to cause other issues

But you could do certainly do that I do a lot of like single leg work where people balance on their legs and turn to the left and just to get that to get that left leg feel grounded and like the weight weight is transferred onto it it

Also by working the left leg single leg work it takes it it it gets the right brain to get involved remember we talked about the mindset how the left if we stay on the right side on the right leg it’s the left brain so it’s it’s it’s

It’s it’s it’s it’s like tools we’re trying to figure out what’s going to be the best tool to help the golf for the person really get the feeling they’re getting on to left side yeah um excuse my dog barking in the background here um good I I’m wondering

Two that with regard to this stuff because look this is obviously originated on the inside with the Torso right but once a golfer’s got a golf club in their hand you can almost use the mass of the club to propel around because of the the rotational aspect of

It are these exercises that are done without the golf club or can you just make the same sorts of things with a club in hand and really just make all the way through yeah you can yeah you certainly can and you just got to be careful with guys who have knee problems

Or back is to just maybe sometimes open up the left foot because you know if you try to do a full rotation with a with a closed stance or a square stance you’re going to torque the left knee uh if you’re if you’re especially someone maybe over 50 so just opening up the

Left foot to help you transition onto left side uh it’s another reason why a lot of the golfers the professionals you’ll see they they do open up that left foot a bit and I said more and more some of the pros that I work with they

Really open up even 45 degrees it allows them to really get that left hip through and it’s like at there’s no like um they’re not not pushing against a like a solid um but I was watching Rory the other day he’s still quite Clos so he’s

Got amazing hip he’s got a he’s he’s out of the box anyway but he’s you know he’s just got such perfect mechanics or great mechanics through the hip but for the average person you you know maybe as it saying you’ve noticed as well like guys opening up the left foot yeah certainly

Um I wanted to go along those lines too because as you were showing that as well I’m I’m looking at your body rotate and I’m I’m seeing how you getting through and it’s alleviating this right side bias um and you reference the hamstrings I’m sure when people do this that

They’ll start to feel a pressure moving their feet as well um because to get the upper body all the way through you got to get pressure in that forward foot moving towards the heel because if it’s any toward the front there’s a natural block that I’m sure is going to

Influence what’s going on upstairs 100% yeah and as you said that ground reaction force you’re pushing through the heels you’re getting that ground reaction through the hamstrings through the btox glutes through the through the back muscles and it’s it’s just that it’s a system that we talked about so

That’s you’re 100% but if you don’t get if you haven’t got strength in the hamstrings then it’s what it is Mark is it’s it’s it’s got to do with electricity so uh quickly digress it here but the the muscles um if you think about a car battery it’s a it’s a

Chemical you know 12vt battery it’s it’s chemical energy it’s not actually storing electrical energy this say chemical energy and so the minute you turn the ignition now you require the the the the the chemical Energy’s Got to Now create electrical energy and so that’s what starts the starter engine

Long story your muscles are actually battery packs and so they’re storing chemical energy but the minute you require them to work they release electrons which causes a contraction and those electrons don’t just stay in the muscles they actually go up and down the whole body we actually have what we call

Main lines the back line um so the main lines are what we call DC direct current like you have like on a battery normal circuit and then you’ve got alternating currents like when you rotate left and right can you imagine like you’ve got alternating current going backwards and

For so that’s the alternating current where I’m going with this is the the energy that’s created from the ground reaction forces is is is a flow of of electrons that are going right up through the body so you’ve got this tremendous power and everything is functioning together and when you don’t

Have hamstrings in the in the prog you’ve got a block in that um electrical circuit it’s like a like a like a short so so you’re not in the power and then you get what we call compensatory movements which is what the medical call compensatory but it’s actually

Electrical um that’s why tight muscles as well you’ll find tight muscles are tight because they when they’re tight they they contract and when they contract they release energy so they’re providing electricity for muscles that aren’t actually contributing to the the field that was a bit of a dig gration

But it’s quite useful for the P people to understand what’s going on you’ve opened my eyes because gee whiz you’ve made a big point there because someone can be pushing on the ground all they like if that circuit’s broken it’s it’s not transitting those electrons to

Through the body to the club 100% once you and there’s back to the that’s that’s the whole secret about releasing muscles once you get flow which in medicine electrical terms is called current once you get flow and I’m not talking about energy and and like these weird spiritual stuff right now that’s

Another I’m just talking simple like the electrical being I mean if you put your hand on under the cover sometimes in your bed you get static electricity the flow of electrons you know the heart the brain it’s all electrical so this has been another big thing I’ve been working

On is is like understanding I’ve done a whole thing on electronics you can hear I’m talking like sound like a like a like we call them a Sparky or like electrician yeah you know like but it’s actually the muscles are electrical and once you start to understand the

Circuitry you it changes the whole approach that we do to just go to stretching muscles and trying to solve problems whether it’s a power problem like literally power as in like developing power in your golf swing or there’s an injury and an injury just simply means there’s a there’s a there’s

A there’s a break in the circuitry pain just in my opinion means lack of electrons lack of flow in that area interesting golly this sounds like another podcast all right um yeah we’ll leave that a little bit because there there’s a lot to chew on here

Um I my main pod my main goal with this podcast all the time is to introduce bride Minds we are um bring a concept we are um in we are but then have the viewer and The Listener really understand grasp the concept I think we’re there but I’ve always got in the

Back of my mind and this is maybe the teacher within going golly the worst thing we can do is take another man’s medicine like I don’t go to someone El someone else’s house and look in their medicine cabinet and just take something um so I I’m getting to the question of

This is probably something that 9/10 of all the golfers listening to this can actually go and focus on even though they may not be right side biased is that a bad contention or is that okay no no I think it’s it’s a great point just just really paying

Attention to I think the big problem especially with most people is this body awareness if you if you you know as a work with clients every day I I often say what are you feeling and they say what do you mean say what muscles are you working I don’t know what you mean

Like well I feel something down here you know they’re not connected they excuse the pun connected they’re not they’re not aware of of of what’s actually going on in their bodies so if they can just improve that half them won’t even know their right side of bs anyway because

They don’t even know theyve never actually thought about I don’t know where my weight is or what do you mean I’m on my right side or so you know it’s that’s a big place to start this question I just got to ask it might come out completely wrong this is

Where my head is right now I’ve still in my head and folks it was a beautiful image if you want a nice view of a rotation through the ball with good tilts and good spine angles look on YouTube because Carl was your guy what he was showing you um I want to

Ask you this now I think I know where it is coming from because everything for me in the Gulf swing originates out of the ground you’ve talked about the ground reaction forces but when you were making those rotary motions it almost looked like it was the Torso there was kind of

It’s where it was originating from am I wrong or am I right no 100% 100% just remember that like the the the your rotational parts of the spine is is is down the it’s the top of the the top of the lower back so it’s the thoracic

Spine from about 8 n t98 sorry 8 9 10 11 12 T1 it’s that it’s that middle back that’s turning obviously there’s a little rotation to the ribs as well but the hip flexes because they go from that that rotational Center all the way down to your hip bones anything that’s that’s

Causing restriction or like not a happy sequence down there glutes hamstrings it has an impact on that rotational senses which is then turning the Torso so I often don’t touch those these upper body movements I literally try to release those senses they they called the rotational Sensers of the spine um

That’s very cool because I’m actually sitting on on a chair that’s like a rocker it’s not a chair and my legs underneath me and it makes me engage my cor but you so right because as you were doing this I’m like you know I can

Rotate my body to the Target side and I haven’t used my legs whatsoever because my knees are on two pads underneath me and I see so many golfers and a lot of them will sympathize and and resemble this where they get to the top and everything’s just this big heave with

The shoulders instead of originating the thing down here across this area you described that would help go in its own way 100% And but that’s the whole that that they don’t get that right rotation because their right butto is very tight they don’t get that right rotation

Because of this right sided bias it tighten everything up on the right side so they can’t get proper right internal rotation of the hip they can’t get on that right heel you know on the on the on the back they don’t get they don’t load the right side efficiently which

You see the pros do so well um and there’s there’s so many other I’m again against technique because that’s your area but I’m just looking at from a functional point of view yeah that’s sounds great um this the I feel like this is kind of Earth shattering because it’s really got

Me thinking and like you pointed out like these are the kind of the talking points but it seems like there could be this huge rabbit hole that I could end up down if I just keep on talking about this stuff but I want to cut it off you

And I want to give you sort of the last word and go okay folks this is a thing this is what I want you to go and focus on as you become more physically aware have a go yeah I think just you know being aware of of what it means to get onto

Left side so you know what does it mean to to to to turn full to the left rotation to get onto your left leg leg do balancing exercis on the left side um and focus on that rotation so it’s going to be the whole body not just the Torso

But you’ll notice when you turn you’re turning your right your right your pelvis turn your knees turn and your ankles turn so it’s that whole kinetic chain be aware of of what joints in your body again on the right side are not moving properly often you’ll find that

When they do circles with their right ankle that they just it gets it feels clunky and blocked those are areas you can start to just by somebody just trying to increase your rotation there um but being aware of of how those limiting factors are and if you go to a

PT or you work with someone like me there are those are things that the PT or us we we we so trained to see those things um and I would suggest working with someone doesn’t have to necess be me but just working with a professional that can actually help you identify

Those those blockages because otherwise you’re going to go to gym and do so much work and you just yeah you’re not messing around but you’re not getting you’re not getting the breakthroughs that you’re hoping for so true okay if the folks do want to follow you or reach

Out to you or indeed work with you where do they go yes so my website’s call um call call read sorry call reader coaching with a c call with a c caller coaching.com or they can reach out to me at callwell gmail.com and um yeah work with lots of

Golfers online and just uh it works really well Mark on the zoom I think a lot of golfers think you know how am I going to work with this guy from not in person but as I just mentioned you know um you have an ey for movement been

Doing this for 24 years you you see restrictions very quickly um and you’re able to just um once you get the camera set up a lot of guys in the US are using iPhones so it’s literally set up the iPhone and we go and it works really

Well and the results yeah they speak to themselves so you know it’s it’s that’s a big roadblock people think aaz is going to work online but it works well well I can concur uh right after this I’m going to give a guy who’s in Singapore a lesson via FaceTime a golf

Swing lesson there you go the the world and check if check if he’s right sided and then you can get back to me I might be reaching out to you hey Carl thanks for reaching out thanks for the great I mean this is great stuff I really

Appreciate you coming on to share this with everybody you’re welcome thanks for having me again keep well how

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