Why You Need This:

In this video, you’ll learn how your brain makes muscle memory.

This is the first video in my bonus series Secret Science to Improve Faster Than Everyone Around You…

Which explores the factors involved in helping you improve your game as quickly as possible.

Here’s the problem with golfers…

A player can hit the range day-after-day and hit thousands of golf balls…

And after 4 months, NOT improve much.

What’s that about?

We’ve all been told “practice makes perfect”…

So how in the heck can you spend that much time on the range and not improve much?

It’s all about how your brain learns.

You can spend way less time on the range and improve your game faster if you practice the correct way.

Watch this video now to start learning how to practice effectively so you make steady progress in your training!

What's Covered: How your brain makes better connections and fires faster over time.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:12

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. I’ve got a really exciting series for you. We’re going to talk about the fastest way to improve.

So picture two different players, one player’s going out there, they’ve got a big stack of range balls, and they’re hitting, and hitting, and hitting every single day, trying to get in that rhythm, trying to find their swing.

At the end of three or four months, they’re about the same as they were when they started. They really haven’t improved, their distance isn’t any better, there not any more accurate, their ball striking isn’t as solid, any more solid than it was when they started.

Now another player practicing the exact same amount, practices the right way and he improves the entire process. He’s hitting it farther, he’s hitting I more solid, hitting more fairways and more greens in regulation.

That’s what we’re going to talk about in this four-part video series. It’s going to be a little bit into the science of how we learn, how our body actually changes through the learning process, and what we should expect.

The cool thing about this is I’m going to give you a blueprint, a step-by-step formula for exactly how to set up our own practice drills and how to work with the Top Speed Golf System practice drills to improve faster than you ever thought possible before.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

OK, so to start off let’s talk about how your brain actually rewrites itself, your neurological system kind of rewrites itself, reorganizes so you can be better at golf.

Now before we get started, think about it this way. Most people think of good athletes as somebody that’s tall but strong, has a lot of muscles, but it doesn’t always apply to golf.

You can be a big, strong guy. I’ve played golf with a lot of good athletes that couldn’t break 150.

Golf is a very specific skill, so we need to not only have height, and strength, and be fast like we would traditionally think of that, we also need that hand-eye coordination and we need the muscle memory to be able to hit the golf ball really, really solid, and really well.

That all starts out inside your brain with your neurons. So basically, if we boil it down to the simplest way possible, we can imagine this is a neuron here. I’ll do my best to kind of do a simplified version of this.

The neuron has a side that comes, the signal comes in to the neuron, travels through the axon, or the length of this neuron.

So if we’re trying to hit an iron shot, maybe our brain sends a signal for exactly what we need to be doing, it shoots it down our arms and our legs, to travel that impulse and then fires those muscles to actually make tht action happen.

So whenever it’s sending out these impulses, it’s sending them in different directions. Again, this art is terrible, I know, but it depends on two things.

Number one, how many of these little guys you have. If I want to be a good golfer, the part of my brain and the part of my body that controls the golf swing needs to have a really intricate neurological system.

There’s been a research study out there that shows like pianists, they practice piano over years of time, they actually get more of these neurons.

So I’m going to spare you the torture of watching me draw, but imagine more and more of these neurons getting built up to make their neurological system in that part of their brain more intricate.

Basically, the more we practice, and more specifically the more specific or the right way that we practice, the more of these guys that we’re going to build and the more accurate they’re going to be.

Because when I have more and more of them interconnected, I get more what we call muscle memory, or I get more control of the golf club.

So muscle memory really isn’t having anything to do with the muscles, it has to do with how many of these guys there are, and how accurately that can happen.

Some of the drills you see me talk about in the Top Speed Golf System, maybe I’m balancing a ball on the club face, just to try to work on hand-eye coordination.

Well, if that’s the first time we’ve ever done that, we don’t have the hand-eye coordination, it’s very difficult to balance that ball on the face, we just don’t have enough of these guys to make it happen.

As you practice more and more, you’re going to build more of these over a period of time and you’re going to get more coordination, more hand-eye coordination.

It takes a while to build all these neurons like it did with the piano players over time. It usually takes, they guess anywhere from three weeks or more to start laying down new neurons, and this is what’s called the gray matter that’s in your brain. This is the actual neurons themselves.

Now that’s the first part. We’ve got to have more neurons, the more we get, the better we’re going to be. The second part is going to be the stuff that’s wrapped around these neurons, it’s fat called myelin.

So that is what insulates the neuron and helps it to fire faster. So a completely uninsulated neuron, motor neuron, can fire as slow as just two or three miles an hour.

My brain sends out the signal, I want to hit a 3 iron, and I want to hit it low, or whatever I want to do with it.

It sends it down the axon to the next neuron, and so on and so forth, well that could be firing as slow as two or three miles an hour if it’s completely untrained, somebody that’s never touched a golf club before, or somebody that hasn’t done any physical activity.

Now as we start to practice more and more, it wraps it with more and more myelin around this chain. What that does, is that speeds up the signal. To a really trained neuron, that can fire up to 275 miles an hour.

So if you’re looking at a world-class golfer, maybe a guy that’s really fast like a Bubba Watson, Tiger Woods, hitting the ball a long way, they have really fast neurons that allow them to transmit that signal faster. Usain Bolt would be another good example.

Those neurons are firing like crazy to allow that t happen. So this is really the first piece of the puzzle, this is nothing that we have to worry about for the golf swing here.

Just realize if we’re going to improve our golf game, we’re either building more neurons that are related to our golf swing, learning how to use those in the swing or our bodies know how to use that, or we’re making those neurons faster.

The more we practice, the more of that fat is going to get laid down. Again, that’s a several week process for that to start to happen.

Takes a little bit of time, but you can super-charge your neurological system, and as you start to practice these different drills we’re going to get to, tat’s going to make you really good really fast, and really coordinated.

So now that we know this, this is where we’re kind of heading up. This is where your super-elite athlete, the only difference between you and the best golfer in the world, is how well their neurons work to fire those muscles and to make that action happen.

In the next video, we’re going to talk about OK, I get the idea of where we’re going, how are we going to set up a practice plan to build some more of these, and to super-charge your neurological system.