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This content video is answering the member question, how do I check if my internal

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obliques are working in the Galsway?

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Now let me first by saying that this is not what most golfers need to think about, but we

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do have a fair number of golfers who are also coaches on the site and some coaches like

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to dive into the real details of anatomy.

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So I'm going to walk you through two different checkpoints that I would look at to see if

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a golfer is using their internal obliques, but that's a hard one to cue and just say,

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hey, golfer, use your internal obliques.

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Typically, if you were trying to make this change, you would want to do it in the gym first

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before you try to do it in the swing.

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So the obliques don't actually work in a hundred percent opposition.

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It's not quite like the bicep and tricep, where it's not like the right external

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obliques and the left internal obliques create the rotation.

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You actually get some of the rotation from both sides of the internal obliques and you

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also get some side bending and one of the big movements is the internal obliques, especially

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the lower fibers, is helpful for creating pelvic tilt or posterior tilting like this.

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So two of the checks that I'll look for are in transition.

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If you are rotating with the internal obliques active, you'll still have a little bit

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of a stretch where you'll see the lower back going to maybe just a slight amount of

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lordosis or anterior tilt.

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But then as they start to rotate through basically from right around delivery position,

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you'll see that the pelvis will start tucking under like so.

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It's a good sign that they're using their internal bleak as part of the engine in the

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downswing.

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If I shut off that internal bleak, it would look more like this and kind of disconnect it.

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So you'll see, there if I try to relax it, it's actually hard to do if you've trained

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it to be active.

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But if I try to relax it, you'll see there's more of a disconnect there compared to

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there when I went to turn in that second version, my rib cage went more with it and

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I could actually feel some of the activity down at my lower abs.

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The second place that I would look for is looking in the follow-through position.

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So basically if that internal obliques is one of the helpful movements for pelvic tilting,

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then getting into a good bracing position where my glutes are squeezed, I can feel that

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my lower abs are helping support my arms getting pulled out away from me.

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If I don't use my internal bleak through there, then I'll typically go more into the hip

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flexor and I'll get kind of into the quad more like this or I get more into the mid back

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and I'd use more of my erectors.

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So again, this is a really tricky one to just cue someone to improve, but it would look

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like that instead of that and it would look like that instead of a variety of different

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bracing strategies, but primarily going more into a little bit of a lead like slide or too

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much extension.

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So if you see either of these two signs and you have trouble with say an internal

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obliques test and there's a good chance that you're not using your internal obliques

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in the golf swing and that's something that you could prioritize in the gym in order

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to improve your ability to use your core during the downswing.