Become A Better Golfer... WHILE INDOORS

March 20th guess this is like kind of like the end of week one of this social distancing quarantine I hope you're still holding up wherever you are in the world I am very lucky here in Jacksonville Golf Course they're still open so I can get out there but they're also incredibly busy like the first tee time at my place every day is like 5:30 because it is spring break as well so things are super super busy so today's video I want to talk about some things we can do while stuck inside to still become a better girl [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I want to focus on three things your mind your body and your game we're up in my bedroom so obviously we're gonna talk about the mental side the things you can improve when you're stuck inside meditation meditation is a huge thing mindfulness a lot of it's a bit of a buzzword right now but a lot of people do it a lot of elite performers do it have been doing it for a long time I've been practicing mindfulness for like five years now since 2015 there's a there's different apps you can do headspace calm insight timer that's another one I'm not gonna recommend one or another they're all great but practicing mindfulness meditating is something that will benefit your golf game because it's gonna give you the ability to control your focus control your breathing be kind of emotionally pretty level throughout the highs and lows of a round of golf so it's something really good for that and then obviously just the benefits for your life are paramount and endless so I can't recommend mindfulness enough Rini you can see my bed stand right there I've got a book right there I'm always reading there's so many books and and amazing things by amazing minds that have been written to help you become a better performer in golf in business in school and in whatever just becoming an elite performer there's just so many great books out there that can help that I always talk about Zen golf if you want to talk about a specific golf book that's gonna help your mind but also your body you're getting all that I would say Zen golf all over I in holidays books ego is the enemy stillness is the key the obstacle is the way we've got so much time on our hands so why not crack open some books every once in a while instead of just staring at a TV or standard our phones and do something that's feeding your brain last thing another thing that is a healthy use of your time is podcasts there's so many podcasts out there that are created to give you tips tricks education on how to just be a better person performer all of that earn your edge podcast is a golf specific podcast that I listen to is probably only golf podcast I listen to there's just so many great interviews there there's so many great if it Ryan holiday that's how I discovered Ryan holiday was from that podcast they interviewed him because they interview elite performers in Ryan as an elite author communicator so that's how I discovered him Gary B's podcast Lewis house school of greatness another awesome podcast and if you dig down that rabbit hole you're gonna find so many great podcasts but you can invest half an hour 45 minutes an hour of this this free time this endless free time that we have for the foreseeable future and listen to some some nuggets some goodness that's gonna help you be a better performer on and off better performer and work school business whatever it is and ultimately in your life so these are some things you can do for your mind I'm gonna get out of my bedroom go down to the garage and let's talk about the things we can do for our buddies what can we do during this offseason forced indoor quarantine social distancing how can we work on our bodies when gyms are closed when when a lot of our creature comforts are taken from us first thing obviously is just just just move just try to work out as best as you can some people will have a home gym set up that's amazing some people will not Kelly and I we have a bike we have a few weights and we have a gym floor so we're doing what we can that that's all you can do you got to keep moving because your body wants to be lazy right now because there's just so much crap going on and it's easy to just kind of sit and take it all in and and lose that motivation especially if you're stuck working from home you're you're out of your routine you can just work on your squats lunges push-ups sit-ups like just set a baseline and there's trying to better that if you can do 50 crunches in a row just work to try to do 60 in a row and and just kind of build yourself up that way just set some sort of physical benchmark and try to improve because that's what this is all about we want to use this time this this quarantine this lockdown this social distancing to better ourselves we're forced into something we don't want to be in so how can we make the most of it it's a it's like that that adage of when you're faced with something negative you have two choices get bitter or get better we want to get better than another thing I would recommend for your body and it actually is a sponsor of this video it's BAE's BAE's nutrition I've been working with BAE's since last summer and I've talked about them on Instagram I've talked about them in some videos before it's an amazing thing that allows you to get the most out of your body they send you a blood test at home very painless do it it collects enough blood in a couple minutes you send that back to their labs and then through reading your blood they'll be able to determine what your nutrient levels are at if you have a surplus in one area or a deficiency in another area for me on my most recent blood test I had a surplus of vitamin D but I was deficient in vitamin E and Omega threes so from that they create a personalized vitamin plan that they send you and you take daily so I'm taking my vitamins right now and my personalized vitamins are vitamin E and omega-3 so I'm gonna do that for a couple months and then I'm gonna do another blood test and from there see kind of where I've progressed and taking care of your body is more than just the physical outside you got to take care of the inside of it so eating well getting the proper vitamins in your body is huge I overlooked vitamins for so so long would take multivitamins here they're gummy ones because I'm a kid at heart and it would just be like that or I would take fish oil here and there and that would be it whereas in the last couple years especially since breaking my arm last year I decided I need to take the inside of my body very seriously I take my mind very seriously I take the outside of my body very seriously but the inside of my body diet and a nutrition was something that I always overlooked and linking up with BAE's it's it's amazing I love that I have confidence in the vitamins I'm taking because it's backed by science science that's catered to me so if you want to try BAE's you can get 50% off that's they're hooking you up because you watch this channel and you believe in me like they believe in me and they're hooking you up so the links below use the code Andrew 50 for 50% off and I mean we're sitting around doing nothing so why not try it just get the blood test give it a go see what your your nutrient levels are like and start taking some vitamins and when we come up the other side of it you're gonna be doing something good for your body so that's that's it thank you to Bay's for believing in my career and my channel and yeah it's awesome so I really hope you guys take advantage of that last thing for the body I would say would be stretching yeah we talked about working out we talked about the inside stretching if you can afford like a faragon I have a vibration labs gun if you can do that kind of stuff like we can't go get massages right now but stretch download some yoga stretch it's so important for the body like I did a workout yesterday I did squats lunges running punch push ups and crunches like my legs are rubber but I'm stretching I'm really trying to get the lactic acid build up out of there and it's just something you can't overlook if you're working on strengthen your body you need to lengthen the body and it's only gonna be good for your golf game because flexibility is key especially if you have some strength behind that flexibility so pretty simple things you can do for your body right now on this break off season I mean but this is stuff you can do on the off season as well come if you're in the winter and you have no grass it's snow like what I had in Canada growing up do these things to make your body better pair it with the stuff I set upstairs make your mind better and all of a sudden when when you're able to golf again you're gonna be ready to perform like peak performance that's what we're after let's go into like the living room and then hit some golf shots for me I'm doing this in my living room but if you do have a basement I would encourage you to do this basements what I want you to do is get a wedge and I have some wiffle balls here we're working on our spot landing the best short game players in the world focus on where they want to land the golf ball when they're hitting a chip shot and that's what we can work on when we're stuck inside a lot of people think oh I can't get to the golf course I can't do what I have to do well you can do stuff inside that's gonna allow you to transition to the golf course very very easily if you want to do this with real golf balls and you're in the basement you can do that if you have ping pong balls that works it's gonna hit chip shops here off a bit carpet gonna set up a cup pillow set up things that you can land it on and you'll have a way of knowing you can hit it or not fill up a cup a little bit of water and that's what we're gonna try to land my ball into and this is just forcing me to focus my attention on where I want this golf ball I'm gonna get that in on determined but you get the gist of it you're focusing where you want to land the golf ball and that's a huge huge skill to acquire whether you want to do it for a block of time or a block of 20 shots 15 shots or if you're doing a cup I gotta get to five times like just set your your benchmark and focus on that and then when you get back out to the golf course then they're allowed to get back onto the golf course you're gonna have great control of your golf ball the second indoor drill we can do is is get a putter it doesn't have to be the putter you use just a putter that has a flange on the back because what you're gonna do is you're gonna put a coin in there I've got a nickel and this is gonna be an indoor drill we can do that's gonna help us with the sequencing the rhythm everything good about our putting strokes and essentially I just want to make strokes without having that fall out you can do it with a ball you can do without a ball it doesn't really matter if my transition is too quick if I well look at that if you've got a little too much hit in the stroke or too much police the nickel will fall out and take some strokes with a coin back there it's gonna really help you with the rhythm the flow the tempo whatever word you want to describe of your putting stroke last indoor thing for your game it's just a training aid it's not this particular training it's just any training aid that you like or have that you can use inside like I said if you have high enough ceilings or you can make swings outside into a net or something like that well then that's your training made like I would like if I had a net and I could swing into a net I would use my golf swing trainer and I would work on my sequencing like that if I could hit shots I'd use some of those training aids but if you can't if you're stuck inside if you have maybe a short weighted Club that's one thing to do but this is a training that I like to use on the range the gravity fit trainer but I can use it in here and essentially this is a thing that will helps me with my width my posture just a lot of good things and because of the the resistance in it in grant a little bit of muscle memory so it helps me with my posture right there and I want to make sure I keep this tension all the way back and then all the way down I can do it with a club I can do it without a club the plane made that's another one that you can do inside which is little half swings so this is my third indoor social distancing quarantine tip for your game that's just fine a training that you like that you can use inside that's it I hope my little indoor tutorial of things to do to pass the time has helped you let me know down below what you're doing I mean it's a weird time a lot of us are stuck inside and I'm not taking it for granted that I can get outside that I can play golf and I'm hoping to use that time in a positive way just share some some joy some fun some golf because a lot of us can't watch golf anywhere else right now so I hope you're enjoying that let me know down below what you're doing let's start a little dialogue about what everybody's doing how once handling this I hope you're staying safe clean washing your hands and listening to what we're supposed to be doing because if we listen I believe this should pass faster than if we don't listen but that's just my opinion yeah give you a thumbs up subscribe if you're not subscribed and I'll see you in the next video this