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This video is loading the glute with a centered pivot.

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So many golfers try and get this really good glute load and try to feel a lot of pressure

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into the hip.

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Mostly because they've been told that that's a good sign that you've loaded up in the

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backswing.

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Now the problem is many golfers do that by their whole upper body off the golf ball

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like this.

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I'm going to show you while you may feel a little bit of hip activity, that's not really

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what we're going for when we're trying to get this glute activation.

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The way you're going to get it is by shifting your pressure with a centered pivot and

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feeling a little bit of unweighting to prepare you for what you want to do in transition.

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So I've got a couple drills, whether it's that open hand or the shoulder plane pivot, to

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kind of feel where you want to get to at the top of the swing where your upper body stays a

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little bit more centered.

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Part of this is because the tour average of upper body movement is only about an inch

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half inch off the golf ball and it's less when we get into the irons.

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So if I make a good backswing pivot, some golfers will feel like, okay, I'm still kind

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of centered.

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I don't feel this whole backswing load.

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So then this is the next key step that I have them do.

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We've gotten into this pivot and then what I want you to do is you're at the top of the

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swing.

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I want you to pick up your left foot for a split second and notice how I can do that

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without shifting my weight.

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So watch yourself in a mirror when you get to the top of the swing.

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If in order to pick up the foot, you end up looking more like this, then you're shifting

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your weight more with your upper body.

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And what I want you to do is I want you to shift just to the point where you can pick

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it up for a split second.

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And what you'll feel is when you pick it up, you'll feel a slight increase in glute

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activity, because that glute is preventing you from actually falling down this way.

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So it's preventing you from falling into that foot, which helps load it.

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But what we've seen with the force plate stuff is that having a little bit of a unweighting

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allows you to push into that lead side, stronger in transition, or the right amount in

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transition.

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But I find is that when you have too much of a shift like this, you'll get into that

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lead side slower and you won't put quite as much force.

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So you'll kind of drift into that lead side slowly with your upper with your lower body,

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which leads you to being more of an arm dominant swinger.

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So if you have a hard time getting your lower body to initiate in transition, you might

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not have loaded it correctly.

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And you might not have loaded it correctly because you tried to load the glute by shifting

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too much off the ball instead of saying standard unweighting in order to get that glute

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loaded and then using that reloading or reweighting of the foot as the trigger to start

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with the lower body.

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So I'll walk through the little progression that I'll do.

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You can usually do this either as a pause drill or as a pump drill.

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So I'll just do, we did the shoulder planes, I'll do kind of the other one where I kind

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of reach that arm away, get that feeling of where my body is going to get to in space,

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get back to setup, get right back there and then I'm going to try to pick up that foot

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so I can feel a little bit of that glute load without having my upper body shift.

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Then I'm going to take a practice wing and I'm going to feel that slight unweighting without

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actually picking my foot up off the ground.

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So I'm going to try to pick it up just so I can almost slide a piece of paper, not like

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I'm picking the whole foot up.

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So just slightly, then once I have that feeling, I'm going to feel like I get into that

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left side using the feeling of putting more of my pressure into that front foot before

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my arms come down.

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So now I've got a good feeling of the centered pivot and how it's going to use the glutes.

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I can apply that while hitting some golf balls.

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So I'm going to do a little stop drill where I'm going to get to the top of the swing

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and kind of unload a couple times.

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And then from there I'm going to replant the feet and just kind of let those arms come

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down, hopefully make contact with a golf ball.

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Now I've got that feeling of loading the glute and firing with the lower body and it may

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not feel as much of a fire to you as just kind of a falling.

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But I've got that feeling, you've got that feeling and now we can apply it to the golf

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ball and kind of a continuous swing, feeling that slight unweighting as I get to the top of

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the swing.

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A little bit thin on that one.

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So we'll try one more, see if we can sync up the arms in the torso a little bit better

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there in transition.

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So I'm going to get that sync and now I'm just going to correct my path just a bit.

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So that was pretty straight, pretty good there.

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Stealing that little unweighting will help you with the glute load.

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If you're struggling with your sequencing it could be because of the way you're loading

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your glute at the top of the swing.

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So hopefully this bit, be able to help you feel the correct way from staying centered

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to load the glute instead of having a massive body shift in order to load the glute.

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So one more for you.

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Right there, right there.

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You can feel that glute load.

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It's actually right there.

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I can feel the deep, blue load when I go to pick up that foot.

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That's what we talk about when we mean glute loading.

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It's pretty solid there.