John Rahm’s Fitness Instructor Spencer Tatum Has Helpful Insights for Amateur Golfers!

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Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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805: John Rahm was a standout golfer in college and currently holds the 2021 US Open Championship. Part of his transformation that lead him to the top spot is due to his fitness training developed by today’s guest, Spencer Tatum. Spencer's unique approach to fitness, performance training, and coaching stems from being an elite college athlete and suffering injuries. He firmly believes there is a clear pathway for clients to reach their goals, which he is carrying out through the development of Tatum Human Performance system at thp.fit. Golf Smarter is your podcast forecaddie! As an entertainment service that enhances your game like a great caddie, we’re now accepting tips on the homepage at GolfSmarter.com. Please show your support so that we can continue to provide weekly, helpful, and entertaining content. Your donation can be as much, or as little as you’d like. It can be a one time offering or your can even do it recurring. Thank you very much. This week on Golf Smarter Mulligans 121 is more on the importance of fitness to play better golf. In part two with TPI Certified Instructor Ann Grassel, she answers listener questions about the differences between men and women golfers and hip rotation. In addition she'll provide stretches you should do before, during and after your round. This episode of Golf Smarter is brought to you by ReliefFactor.com/golfsmarter. If you have everyday aches and pains, Relief Factor is 100% drug-free and designed to be taken every day, so you can get out and stay out of pain.Go to ReliefFactor.com/GOLFSMARTER and order a 3-Week QuickStart for only $19.95.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do we have adequate levels of help?
0:03.0	Are you hydrant enough?
0:04.0	Are you over-caffe?
0:05.0	Are you over-stress?
0:07.0	All these things can affect your mobility, your strength, your power, your endurance.
0:11.0	And they're very simple fixes and people don't believe me when it really is sometimes that easy.
0:16.0	Get seven hours of sleep.
0:18.0	Do they have adequate levels of movement?
0:20.0	Like if you can't touch your toes, you're probably going to have a tough time getting in a set up posture in your mom's school. Can you squat? If you can't squat, you probably are going to have a tough time getting on and off the toilet. If you can't get off the toilet, then you're probably going to end up in the nursing home. Then let's start looking at how strong you are. We talk about strength to sport of golf and we talk about strength relative to the person's size and mass. If you're a bigger person, you're going to be stronger. If you're smaller, you're not going to be as strong, but you're still to be at the same percentage as relative to your body weight. Do we have enough aerobic fitness? If you're not horribly fit enough, then if you're hitting 50 balls in the driving range,
0:55.4	maybe the first 10 are great, and then you're not recovering enough to have a great 50 ball session.
1:00.5	Golf Smarter, number 805, is brought to you by relieffactor.com slash golf smarter.
1:10.2	John Rom's fitness instructor, Spencer Tatum, has helpful insights for all amateur golfers.
1:17.0	This is Golf Smarter.
1:19.7	Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.
1:27.6	Here's your host, Fred Green.
1:30.3	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Spencer.
1:33.5	Well, good morning. How are we doing, Fred? Good to see you.
1:36.2	Good to see you on whatever time of day it is that somebody's listening to this.
1:41.3	It's a podcast. It could be morning, afternoon, and we're not even sure what it's like outside right now.
1:47.1	It's true.
1:48.6	So a very interesting hook to get us started here.
1:52.7	You've been working with John Rom for a while, and you can pat yourself or we'll pat you on the back a bit here for to congratulate you on your
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