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Band Pull Backswing

Use a band or cable machine set in a high position. This will provide some resistance for the shoulder blade to pull against. Pulling with the shoulder blade, instead of the arm will feel really stiff for some. Almost like Frankenstein's monster making a backswing. But it can lead to a physically less exhaustive way of creating speed and more consistency and control in the impact zone.

Tags: Poor Contact, Backswing, Drill, Beginner

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This drill is band pull backswing. So here. I've

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got a band in a upper attachment, but you

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can easily use a cable machine if you don't have access

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to a cable machine a band and I'd

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like this to be a little bit higher if I could but top of the door works pretty

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well here. So now what I'm gonna do in

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this band pull back swing is I'm going to try to get my shoulder blade to drive

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more of the movement instead of just bending and lifting

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the arm kind of doing a bicep curl like this.

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So stage one. I'm gonna face the attachment like

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this and hopefully we can see from back here. I'm gonna feel like

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I keep this arm straight.

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So I'm not doing much with the bicep.

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And I'm pulling the shoulder blade back. So that's

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step one is just getting this movement of

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feeling that shoulder blade pull now step two.

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I'm gonna get into my golf posture so that this

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would be parallel to the Target line like this. Now, I'm gonna

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try and time or match this

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shoulder blade pulling as my body is

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going to rotate and there's a lot of different little layers of

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detail that I can add into this drill. This is

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a really good like homework drill that I'll throw into somebody's exercise

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program or I'll have them

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do a few reps. If I'm holding it when we're on the Range

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to kind of activate some of these muscles. So this is really good

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at counteracting people who tend to have more of an arm

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lift kind of pull like this. I'm gonna get

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more body movement.

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And the big emphasis is on

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feeling the shoulder blade pull is set of that arm. Now. I

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mentioned we can add some extra pieces to this

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what first piece I'm going to do is kind of dial in

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the whole arm. So I'm going to get a little bit of extension of

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the wrist and a little bit of external rotation kind of

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like that. So as I'm pulling backward now,

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I can feel that the wrist and

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shoulder are doing a little bit of a movement

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like that second piece I can add is reaching with

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the left arm to try to match it. So now

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I'm basically starting here and I'm making this

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body rotation and I'm doing that same piece with the arm,

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but now I'm reaching across and

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then third one is I'm going to try to connect the pivot.

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So I'm going to try to get a little bit more kind of

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crunch or lead side down get that left shoulder working.

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And as I I pivot I'm gonna feel my foot

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grip the ground. I'm gonna keep that Arch and

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I'm gonna really load into this right glute now.

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I'm loading but I'm not shifting right? I'm

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getting that load more from the rotational tension not

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from a weight shift.

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So if I tie it all together now, it's going to look more like

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this at the top there if I wanted to hold

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a little bit, you know for a second. I could

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feel a little bit of a crunch there. I can feel more

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stuff in this kind of shoulder compared to

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when I normally make a backswing if I

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have this pattern I might feel more of this stretch in my tricep.

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So if you're working on width, if you're working on

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the shoulder blade movement, then I highly recommend the shoulder

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blade or the shoulder band pull for

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the backswing. This will help you tie together a few

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of these key backswing parameters into one good exercise that

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you can do to combo at all together at home.

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