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Your Posture Could Be The Key to Fixing Your Game with Bob Forman

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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GS#359 Exercise Physiologist Bob Forman warns about golf magazines' promises to increase your distance. Fix your posture at address or lose distance and invite back pain. Our SCOR Zone Short Game Academy helps you decide which club to use between two distances.Follow @golfsmarter on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube for daily highlights and helpful insights from our interviews on the podcast. We also post articles and video shorts on LinkedIn @FredGreene (from Novato, CA).    Receive three free gifts when you post an honest review about Golf Smarter on your favorite podcast app. Listen for details. This episode is brought to you by the PXG. Upgrade your bag with PXG clubs and take your game to a whole new level. For a limited time, you can save $10 per club. Head over to PXG.com/SMARTER and use code SMARTER to save $10 per club on your order.  This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply.This episode is also brought to you by Waitlist from Wine Access. Visit wineaccess.com/waitlist and use promo code "golfsmarter" for $25 off your first shipment!This episode is brought to you by Timeline Nutrition. Timeline is offering 10% off your first order of Mitopure. Go to timeline.com/GOLFSMARTER.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

Golf Smarter number 359 published on November 27, 2012.

0:06.8

Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.

0:09.8

Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the

0:15.6

Golf Smarter podcast.

0:18.0

Great golf instruction never gets old.

0:21.3

Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations like this

0:27.1

that are no longer available in any podcast app.

0:30.2

Part of the assessment that I do on golfers, there is a balance element, and you'd be surprised

0:34.7

how many, I would say, close to 85, 90% really have some issues

0:39.5

with balance. And when you're moving your body parts in different directions all at the same

0:43.8

time, I mean balance becomes a vital component as you're trying to shift your weight from

0:48.4

your trail leg to your target leg. I mean, if you have a balance issue, that's going to play

0:53.3

havoc with your swing and your playing performance. You know, we you have a balance issue, that's going to play havoc with your swing

0:54.3

and your playing performance. You know, we don't practice it. The second issue is that a lot of us

0:59.9

tend to lose strength, especially in the lower body. That correlates to the inability to maintain

1:07.8

balance and such. So it's important to make sure that you do get checked for balance,

1:12.9

even if you don't, I mean, just to practice it.

1:15.2

Just try to balance on one leg

1:16.6

and see if you have a tougher time trying to balance

1:19.3

on your right leg versus your left leg.

1:21.4

You'd be surprised how many people are good on one side,

1:24.3

but terrible on the other.

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