Talor Gooch of Smash GC and 2023 LIV Golf League Individual Champion takes you through his performance training before a tournament for optimal performance.
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[Music] oh yes and that’s a share of the lead for [Applause] Taylor I’m Taylor gu proud Oklahoma State Cowboy the 2023 live golf champion welcome to my live lesson all right guys these are the workouts that we’re about to do the exercises that are going to get you ready to go straight to the course and be ready to fire cat Cow open book rotation hip circles straight leg heel rocks with rotation split stance band rotation strap load to explode split stance Med ball rotation lunge lateral bounds single leg ball slams so I always start with just a few body movements just to get things moving like so the first one uh you yoga people are going to know this it’s cat cows right so you’re just going to get on all fours and you’re going to just extend you’re going to do this a few times again you want to try to keep this as close to the ground as possible I can’t even keep it fully on the ground it’s going to come up a little bit but what this is doing is it’s separating your lower body from your upper body which is t-spine mobility right that’s that’s that rotational movement that if you don’t have that you don’t have a golf swing upper body is turning while your lower body is staying still and that’s working again on that rotational movement it’s in the t-spine where your body has to move to separate your lower body from your upper body and if you don’t have that separation in your lower body and your upper body you can’t create speed you’re going to probably get injured and you’re just not going to have a have much rotation you know much of a back swing and you’re not going to be able to to rotate through through very well so the t-spine rotation is huge and that’s why this is a staple for me in the gym to to begin my my workout these are called hip circles they’re very simple you’re going get on all fours and then you’re going to try to make a circle with your hip and I’ll turn this way so you can see it so you’re going to go like that I usually do tin this way and then you do tin the other way what this is doing is it’s starting to fire these muscles all through your hips and your glutes um and it’s just working on again the the your range of motion um and it’s it’s getting everything in there starting to move and starting to fire up a little bit and then the next kind of favorite hip um movement I like to do before we really get going in here is just a heel Rock so you’re get on one knee straighten out the other knee keep this foot on the ground pointed out that way and all you’re going to do is you’re going to start from this position and then you’re going to rock back and try to sit on your heel so you start by doing that and then the next progression in that is you’re going to rotate your foot so you’re going to try to get it to point to the sky I know this looks easy but good luck trying to do it and same thing you’re going to do this anywhere from 6 to 10 times and then now we’re going to get off the ground we’re going to start getting some different types of movements uh we’re going to start getting athletic and the whole idea behind it is to get more explosive the more explosive that you can get the better the those fast switch muscles are working the further you’re going to hit a golf ball right you’re going to to rotate across but you’re going to do it quickly you’re not going to do it just slow you’re going to this is something again that I’m always doing before I go out to the range tournament days I only do two sets of it because again before a tournament for me this not a full-blown workout we’re just trying to warm up we’re trying to get to the point to where we have a nice lather everything is firing you get to the range you just point and pull the trigger and you’re not thinking about anything your body’s already warmed up it’s already firing on all cylinders and that’s what this is about and that’s why we’re only doing two sets of everything in here um another great tool to use when getting the rotational movement going is this thing right here so it’s a strap to hook up so this pull system here we’re going add just a little bit more weight here and this simulates the golf swing in the gym about as good as anything that you can do okay so you’re going to step out and you’re going to rotate into the side that’s facing that’s closest to the machine you’re going to rotate and then explode rotate explode again you’re going to do six to 10 of those and what that’s doing is it’s simulating the golf swing for when your back swing when you’re going back you’re turning into that hip right so that’s working on that internal rotation of the hip and so what this is doing with the weight that’s added to it it’s just putting more pressure into that rotation so it’s helping you get deeper into that hip movement movement which again this is not a stretch but what it’s doing it’s dynamically helping you get a better range of motion right so and then also like we keep talking about explosive we want to try to get speed we want to try to get explosive so that’s why I said as you rotate in then you explode through so as you have to do it with both sides with everything we’re going to do it from this side also so same thing you’re going to turn and explode turn and explode you’re going to do six to 10 of these you’re going to do two sets of them uh and again it’s about going slow here getting that range of motion getting that depth into this hip and explode foot on the ground one foot on the bench and what you’re going to do is you’re going to squat into the leg that’s on the ground and as you squat into this leg you’re also going to rotate okay so it’s down and up and again same thing we’re going to do six to 10 of those and we’re going to do two sets of those now we’ve really gotten you know the rotation going your te- spine’s working your core is working you’ve got glutes working uh your hips are firing up I mean you can’t see but I got a nice little l lther under here lateral bounds lateral jumps okay so you’re going to start here you’re going to jump you’re going to jump cuz similar to a golf swing when you swing you don’t want to be falling over or be falling back and that’s what this is doing it’s explosiveness it’s stabilization it’s getting you athletic it’s getting you Dynamic it’s getting you ready to go hit a golf ball another one that I’ll usually finish with is ball slams and again this is just explosiveness right so you’re going get the ball slamming it I always do one foot by this point I’ve got a dang good lather so it’s time to go uh go to the range and get ready to compete [Music]
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