Upper Body Rotation Exercises - Improve your motion through impact at home!

Hey golfers, I wanted to do a follow-up video with some exercises and some drills that you can do to improve your rotation through impact. Previous video, I put out a ton of information, but how do I improve as a golfer to take this information and make it useful? So I wanted to go ahead and get this video out. And I got a tour player here in blue, myself in the gold. And really what we want to take a look at is that rib cage kinematic sequence and rotation. I have a tendency to get going a little bit too early. It gets me a little over the top. That's one thing my pivots got to improve, but really let's take a look at how slow my rotation is of my chest through impact. And we can see here, I mean, I'm already down to 367 degrees per second, but look at the different body angles here we have. And this is where these exercises coming up, well, you can use to help improve your upper body mobility through impact and improve your lead hip. Because if your lead hip has immobility and restriction, that's going to make it difficult to happen. That's part of the reason why you see a lot of players kind of the feet are coming off the ground. They're not jumping. But I remember talking with Sean Foley about this with Justin Rose and is when the soft spikes really came out and his foot's moving all over the place. He had a hip immobility issue and they were letting him move because of that. So the rotation actually pulled his foot. That's really what happens. Rotations pulling the foot up off the ground and around. And so we can do that with a foot angle, flaring the foot out also. That's another kind of a good tip to kind of do. But there'll be a couple exercises here that you can do to improve this upper body rotation through impact and keep moving. So this way you don't rotate the face over and hit hooks like sometimes I do when I get stuck. Also notice the head staying down too much. Let the head come up and release. Using the head as an anchor is never a good thing. You can even see there. Really big difference between upper body rotation through the ball. And this is one of the reasons why I make it playing on a higher level is because my body's stalled out through impact. I'm on some Rotex right now. Got some original Dr. Joe OG Rotex motion machines here. And this is the first thing you'll probably, don't yell at me, Dr. Joe, about my setup here. This is all temporary. I'm gonna go into balancing out my hips and then just working, going into isometric hold. Next routine I do with the Rotex is get in position. And all these are in Dr. Joe's app. Get my body tilted. And all I'm gonna do is rotate into this lead side and then I'm turning this left foot in. Gonna hold it here for about 10 seconds. I wanna then go ahead and continue that rotation, turn that in, and really you can actually hear the different tone of my voice. I'm getting through there. I need good hip mobility in order to rotate through. Another drill I like to do is use water bags or med balls and get throwing. Not literally, but med balls will throw, but not with the water bag. But really, I'll go ahead and get in posture. Arms are straight and really feel like I'm just tossing it and let it go through. And you can see, I'm not used to moving that way. So I gotta retrain my balance. Part of it's this, right? Hip issue, but really getting comfortable with going through and throwing that motion. I don't wanna just stop here and impact. And the water bag just carries me through to keep that momentum going. Another drill you can do golfers is do med ball throws, but when are you throwing it? I don't want you to release it. So you're way beyond impact. And I saw this with Adam Schreiber, JJ Spalding's coach. And it was just like, oh yes. I've always talked about impacts beyond the ball, but the idea of when releasing the med ball and throwing it behind you. So I'm gonna go ahead and again, get it and just toss it behind me, coordinated. And that's kind of the walkthrough. Another drill to just kind of get a feel for it. You just take a golf club, or in this case, get a PVC pole. And I'm just really working all the way through. I'm letting my head go. I really wanna get up and through this shot. And this is just something I'm not trained. I haven't been training myself to get all the way through it. This feels really awkward for me. But we've seen that video. This is something I need to learn. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to stay tuned to more of these videos I'll be producing about gears and how we're improving the four pillars of the golf swing. You can use this to improve your golf performance. Check out kinetic.golf for a lot more, some more write-ups and different things like that too. Later.