Fitness Assessment - Fitness Friday #39.
Fitness Assessment - Fitness Friday #39.
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Our guests today are Piers Ward and Andy Proudman of meandmygolftv.com. They are at the Titleist Performance Institute, and Dave Phillips will take Andy through a physical assessment to find the physical limitation of his golf swing.
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The first thing that Dave Phillips did with Andy was to check his internal and external hip rotation. Taking a 6 iron and laying a shaft across the bottom of the club gives a 60-degree angle. Andy stands with both feet up against the shaft and, raising the lead foot, rotates his hips as far as he can. A passing grade is that the hips should match the shaft at 60 degrees. He just made it. Then turn the club around, put both feet up against the shaft, and raise the rear heel and rotate the hips the other way. Again 60 degrees is a passing grade. Andy failed that test at about 45 degrees. An obvious limitation in his follow-through.
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The second thing he did was test his Thoracic Spine Rotation. With two lines crossing at 45 degrees, Dave placed a chair over the two lines. Sitting on the edge of the chair, Andy put a club across his back and turn as far as he could to the right. He easily turns more than 45 degrees and gets a passing grade. He also gets a passing grade in the other direction. So his thoracic spine is good to go!
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Andy lays on his back, legs tucked in and arms extended out straight up. Dave gets him to extend one leg straight out. There was a little bit of shaking going on. A weakness in the glutes? On the other side, Andy does much better.
To see if Andy gets passing grades on all the other tests, follow along with the video.
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https://youtu.be/Ix0FpNFYI8E
Source: meandmygolftv.com Mel Sole Golf School
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