NEVER Speed Train Heavy! (Golf Speed Training)

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One of the biggest misconceptions and myth's in the golf world is that in order to effectively speed train to gain speed and distance with your golf swing, is that you need to speed train with an overweighted (heavier than your driver) training aid. We have debunked this myth not only to prove why it isn't necessary in your pursuit of more speed and distance, but also why it is actually counterproductive in helping you drive the golf ball further and to shoot lower scores.

1. Swinging anything heavier than your driver exponentially increases your risk for injury from your speed training. We'll go over the force calculations to illustrate how even though you're swinging a heavier item slower, it actually puts more stress and strain on your body each swing. Think swinging a sledge hammer as fast as you can 15 times vs swinging a driver as fast as you can 15 times. After swinging both, the sledge hammer clearly causes more fatigue and strain on your joints, ligaments, tendons, and muscles?

2. Swinging heavier objects creates poor swing habits. In order to swing a heavier object, your body needs to recruit larger muscles. The golf swing is a finesse movement, not a brute strength move, the larger the muscles you swing with (think of an over the top, all arms swing), the worse your timing, sequencing, and positions will be.

3. It promotes MOVING SLOWER. The heavier the object, the slower you will swing, that's a simple concept. And the more swings we perform at slower speeds, the most comfortable our body is at moving slower. This is speed training, we want to raise our speed ceiling to break through barriers to train our fast twitch muscles and Central Nervous System to move faster than it is used to swinging, translating to our controlled on course swing for further drives.