Why You Need This:

Our muscles are the engines for our bodies. If we can learn to fire our muscles faster using this “trick” technique, we can create massive lag and speed in our golf swing.

I will show you how!!

What's Covered: How the stretch shortening cycle of your muscles can boost your speed. How this works in the forearms to add speed with your lag.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 2:36

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, so one thing to keep in mind when we’re trying to get a lot of speed is something called the stretch-shortening cycle, and this is how your body works, your muscles work to fire at their maximum capacity and you get the most amount of speed.

If we don’t take advantage of this, there’s no way we’re going to be able to hit those 300-yard-plus drives on the golf course and out-drive all your friends by a ton.

If we take advantage of this you’re going to be able to get the maximum speed that your body will allow.

So let’s go ahead and talk about what this means.

So the stretch-shortening cycle, basically is just how your muscles fire. Your muscles, when you get down to the very small level, kind of look like fingers interlocking.

As they contract, these fingers tighten up together, and as they relax, the fingers kind of spread apart.

So those are the actual muscle fibers tightening and loosening. As we stretch these muscles out, this is what’s called the stretch-shortening cycle, as they get stretched out and the muscle fibers get farther apart, that’s when they’re going to have the maximum amount of potential to fire really fast back together.

So the best example of this, and a very common example of this when you hear people talking about it is when we’re having a rebound.

If the rebound is coming, I’m going to wait until the last second, and then I’m going to bend down to stretch the muscles in my leg and I’m immediately going to jump up and grab the rebound.

I wouldn’t see this three-pointer about to shoot and then crouch down here and wait on the ball for 5 or 10 seconds, because I’m not going to be able to take advantage of that stretch-shortening cycle, I’m going to jump a lot shorter.

I’m not going to be able to jump nearly as high. Go ahead and try that out, you’ll feel a huge difference when you do this.

The same thing applies to your golf swing and getting tons of speed in your swing.

We have to stretch out the muscles and we’re going to talk about it in these next few videos, the muscles of the forearms, immediately, as soon as they’re stretched out they immediately have to fire. If we wait even a half a second, we’re going to lose out on tons of speed.

So think about that when you’re getting in this lag position, they’re fully stretched, so when we’re coming into lag I have stretched my muscles yet, my wrists are starting to set more, and more, and more.

Now they’re fully set in the downswing. From here, I’m immediately going to fire my wrists to get to this fully released position, and impact is just going to get in the way of me firing to that fully released position.

So I’m going to have that forward shaft lean still, I’m going to have compression on the golf ball, because I’m still on the way of fully releasing it out here to the 45 straight line release, as we get into the straight line section.

So just keep that in mind. To fire the muscles with the most speed, to get the most swing speed, you’ve got to stretch the muscles and then immediately fire them.

That’s the stretch-shortening cycle, and it’s going to get you huge gains in distance.

So good luck, and we’ll go ahead and start with these next few videos.