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The steering is bridge to follow through. So in this follow-through section, I talk a lot about this

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bracing, so if I've done a really good job of using my lower body, I'm basically going to be

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in a position where I can really handle it, handle the speed of the club and the arm is extending away

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for me. Well, one of the common areas where people tend to not get into a really good position

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is going to be in the hips. So if you've done any type of functional movement training, you've

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probably encountered what's called a bridge. A bridge is basically if I was laying flat on the ground

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and I was to extend my hips kind of like so and try and squeeze my butt. So it's a it's a

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glute activation exercise. Well, when I'm doing a bridge, my hips are actually going into extension.

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So what I'll have a lot of golfers do especially if they tend to have more of this scoop on the

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way through or if they've been cleared by their doctor and they're good to go but they still get a

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little bit of back pain and they feel it kind of through the release. Getting those glutes to

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squeeze can sometimes help with that problem as well. So I'm going to take the club and place

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it across my hips and I'm going to squeeze my butt and move my hips towards the camera.

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I'll do it this way so you can kind of demonstrate. So I'm just basically using this for a little

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bit of resistance to push against and I'm trying to squeeze my hips towards the camera.

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Then what I'll have my golfers do is get into your kind of golf stance and then go ahead and

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bridge but this time I'm going to rotate and bridge towards the target. So right now I'm trying to

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squeeze my butt towards the target and not really worry about what my upper body does. So I may do

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this five or ten times just kind of feeling the the butt squeeze kind of like so. Now

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when you as you see when I'm doing this in order to get this glute activity the inside of my foot

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is pushing into the ground. It's actually going to be harder for me to squeeze my butt if I really

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spin out that foot. So proper glute activation can really lead into better foot mechanics.

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Vice versa. So then the next piece would be I'm going to bridge and I'm just going to add a little

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bit of side bend. So I'm trying to get now into this bridge position with a little bit

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side bend. Then I'm going to hold my arms out in front and I'm going to do the exact same thing.

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So from here I'm just going to bridge and get into that bracing position. So this is all

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glute squeeze but notice how in the follow-through position compared to my lower body my upper body

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is more in the middle of my stance. They they used to teach this big reversi of the upper body

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staying back and we know that that can be problematic but it wasn't completely wrong.

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The tour average on AMM or a frequent zone is somewhere in that 50 to 60 degrees of

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by an extension. It's not true by an extension because most of it's coming from the pelvis

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compared to where the thoracces but it's it's we know that in order to have this shallow angle of

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attack in this flat spot and those arms extending you're going to have to have your upper body

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behind your lower body and if you're not doing it by squeezing your glutes you're putting your

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lower back in jeopardy. So you can use this feeling both in nine to three style swings where I'm

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squeezing my glutes and doing the bridge through the wall or in full shots but it's really a

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big piece of if I'm working on this bracing component to the follow-through and the release.

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So looking at a nine to three it would look something like that where I'm getting that good

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arm extension and the hips are bracing on the way through pushing through that lead foot and then

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if I was to take that up to a full swing I'm trying to kind of gradually get into that bridge position

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I'm not really trying to get there explosively. And it would look something like that.