Do these 3 Exercises to Improve your Golf Swing

Three banded exercises to help you build a more consistent, faster golf swing without hitting thousands of balls. Why bands? Because they give us variable resistance, allow us to progress over time, and help you not only to create more speed, but to improve your movement quality and control as well.

You're not sure which to use? Crossover symmetry are the best in the game. With just one band.

We're going to look at the back swing, the transition, and then your impact position. And all of these are very specific to how you move in the swing so we can activate the muscles and help you to deliver that sequence when we work on your game. So, exercise number one for the back swing is the swing elevation drill.

And start all of these with a resistance that allows you to hit good form and then progress over time. Simply, we are going to loop this under our lead foot. Take a grip on the handle, which is why crossover symmetry is so good here.

We can really get a good position. And now we're going to go into our back swing position. Obviously, as we work, we're activating the big muscles across a wide range of motion, and that creates that stretch and load that we all need.

But also, with the swing elevation drill, we want to get higher. Okay? So, whether you do this technically or not, if we can elevate into the back swing, we can then work down into the ball.

Those are your ground reaction forces. That's how you swing it faster and better. So, with that looped under the foot, we take our golf posture, take your grip, and then we're going to stretch.

Okay, number one, load the trail side. You have to be working into this trail hip. If you're then going to be able to stretch up and around with the band, so make sure it is load and stretch.

You can feel that rotation. We're really working the lats, the big muscles in the body as we get into that position. And because we've got that resistance, the muscles are having to work that much harder to get into your back swing position and deliver what we need for your golf swing.

Once you get that load, then your golf swing gets really easy because once we stretch a muscle, it wants to return. So here, we're under full tension. That band's pulling you back down.

It's loading the swing. It's getting you in a great position. And it's priming your body for speed, sequencing, and consistency.

Exercise two is the swing arc pump drill. This is the perfect next step from the swing elevation drill, and we're looking at your transition. This is the hardest part of the swing.

And like we talked about before with the swing elevation, if we can stretch and load the muscles, it gets so much easier because they want to then return to their position. If we then add sequencing and kinematics, we've got a good golf swing. So, if we think about the swing elevation drill as having us in a great back swing position, we then go into the swing arc pump drill to work on that next movement down.

So, again, we're in our golf posture. We've got a high fix point here with the band. And first of all, we need to be under tension.

So, this band's already under tension here. And that helps me to increase range of motion going back. That's your wide back swing.

So again, we're loading that trail hip. We're letting the band pull us away into this wide position, and then it's on us to ensure that we use the lower body first. Think about how many golfers hit a slice.

That would be using the upper body first, and then it's very hard to pull this band. But if we use the lower body to push and rotate the hips, we can then bring this band into impact with that lead side active and extending through the ground to create an awesome position. Here, the core is active.

The lead side is solid with that nice straight arm. And we're delivering that impact position every single time. So, let the band stretch you into a wide back swing position.

Load the trail side, hips, then upper body. Okay? Really push the ground, rotate fast, and feel as though you keep your chest down the whole way.

Okay? Far too many golfers are up and out of the swing, and that means that band will be all over the place. So again, it's not only adding the resistance to improve how your muscles work, it's giving you great awareness and feel of where you need to be in the swing and how you actually create these movements.

So again, we're in our golf posture. We load to the top, hips, and then upper body. Stretch the band, create that position, hit impact, and get ready to take this exact feel into your golf swing.

Finally, we have the step to dynamic release. This is where we really deliver as much speed as possible, increase our footwork, fire the hips, and really just speed through the impact position. We built a great back swing.

We've transitioned down into impact. This is that final piece to get the most out of the ground and your lower body and transfer it into the upper body. As you can see, we use the same band the whole way around.

So, that's all you need for this workout. Incredible. Way to go.

The crossover symmetry system. Gets it even easier. Okay, so here we're going to start with our feet together.

We've got a slight bit of tension on the band and very simply we're going to step into our golf posture, use that to increase how we react against the ground, push and rotate with the lower body and fire with the upper body. So each time we're working with intensity, we're trying to be fast. We're trying to be dynamic and this finishes off the workout set.

So here we're in a solid position. Step and rotate. Really be aggressive, okay?

Stretch the band with everything that you have. Increase how your body creates that dynamic speed. And this is how you train your swing without hitting balls because this is giving you the physical capacity to move faster, to sequence the body the way that you need to, and to train for speed.

You can see there we really are planting with that lead foot. And because we then plant into it, we get more reaction out of it. That's your reaction forces.

So we step, push, rotate, and then fire with the upper body every single time. Maximal speed. A whole lot of intent and intensity.

Just an awesome movement. You can use that as part of this workout set. You can use as a warm-up.

And you should use it if you want to improve how you get through the ball. Those are our three exercises. This is going to help your golf swing.

What else do we need to consider? The first thing is that yes, train the weak side of your body. Even though we're looking at the golf swing itself and we're hitting very specific patterns, you should train the weak side of your body, the non-dominant swing side.

All right? Because from here, you can get symmetry through the body. You can improve how you move.

You can actually increase speed in your swing because your body's going to understand how to decelerate. Okay? That's where that symmetry comes from in the body.

The better you move all around, the more you have to work with. So, what you will feel is how less coordinated you are when you do these movements. Because right-handed, we're hitting so many balls.

We've been practicing. We've been playing. It feels very comfortable to hit those golf swing positions.

Take it onto your weak side and all of a sudden you have to relearn. Okay? This is incredibly important for how you play and your performance on the course, but even more so for durability over time, okay?

Because as golfers, we get out of balance. We get asymmetrical. Different sides of the body do different things.

If you can train the weak side, you'll actually see a boost in performance and you'll have less injuries. Okay? And outside of that, in terms of how many times to do this workout per week with a band, relative to your overall training stimulus, we can look at two or three times, no problem.

Okay? Once is going to be great. And if you can match that with strength, mobility, and stability work, you're going to see real progress.

All right? That is what we do. And we've given you a sample workout down in the description.

Okay? You can also get your 7-day free trial to the DRVN Golf Training app. We use these bands, crossover symmetry, and so much more to give you a personalized experience, the best workouts in golf, and so much more so that you can play your best every time you tee it up.

All right, so thank you for taking the time. Make sure you hit like, hit subscribe, and then go ahead, work on your game, work on your body so that you can golf strong.