The Need for Speed
We would all like to have a powerful swing and hit the ball further. To add 10 – 20 meters from the tee changes the game a lot.
Working out, and stretch and balance drills are all important. Being in shape provides a necessary base to start from. But although lifting weights, using medicine balls, pulling rubber bands etc. are all useful, they will not enable you to hit the ball further. The problem is that strength is not speed, and swing speed is critical. This new “speed science” will change the game dramatically. For the average golfer, we now can blend good golf
technique with plyometric training, leading to very good results.
Canadian researcher Digby Sale found that in order for an exercise to
increase speed, the exercise must adhere to the following laws :
1. Movement pattern must be exact or as similar as possible to the athletic motion involved. Movement pattern is simple to see. Pulling a rubber band will not effectively strengthen one’s swing because the movement pattern is too dissimilar. Rubber band resistance has a linear path, whereas swinging a golf club is a circular, rotational movement on many planes.
2. Contraction velocity must be similar to the event. Velocity is easy to see. Turning with or throwing a medicine ball is very slow in comparison to the swinging of a golf club. Yet many golfers in an attempt to increase club head speed, do exercises with it. If the exercise is done too slow, how will you move faster during the swing?
3. Contraction force must be higher than the event. Force is difficult to measure without the use of high-tech bio mechanical equipment. But understanding that one needs to overload somewhat to get a strength benefit is logical. The problem arises when one overloads too much and velocity slows down, which in turn decreases the amount of force.
Training with the Speed Chain
4. Contraction type must be the same. Contraction type is extremely important since explosive movements use the stretch-shorten cycle. The stretch-shorten cycle is the short, rapid stretching of the muscles prior to a forceful contraction and is present in all explosive movements. Proper weightlifting techniques discourage this type of contraction. Therefore training benefits are minimal for speed.
So how do you get speed?
The answer is a variable resistance device to create an advanced plyometric exercise. Plyometrics is a type of training designed to produce fast, powerful movements, and improve the functions of the nervous system, for the improving performance in sports. Plyometric movements, in which a muscle is loaded and then contracted in rapid sequence, use the strength, elasticity and innervation of muscle and surrounding tissues to jump higher, run faster, throw farther, or hit harder, depending on the desired training goal. Plyometrics is used to increase the speed or force of muscular contractions, providing explosiveness for a variety of sport-specific activities and where golf is one of them and a variabel resistance using proprietary twist link speed chains are the only way to construct an exercise devise capable of obeying all the laws of speed training in golf.
The SPEED-CHAIN can be for you. If you are little older or not so well trained the NOS is second best.
The "Neuromuscular Overspeed Device" NOS
The NOS (Neuromuscular Overspeed Device) also use the variable resistance that changes its weight during the swing phasis. A typical NOS is slightly heavier than a normal driver but it can be swung faster. Therefore you can increase your speed up to 5 – 10 mph with just little training. A 10 mph speed increase with the Driver gives 20 meters extra in distance.
We have all Speed-Tools available for training. Cost free for our students.
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For good progress and continuation to improve your distance I suggest you get these training aids yourself. I cooperate with the leading Speed – company in USA and you can find more interested reading if you click the link www.Z2golf.com. Here you can also place orders and get “School discount” when referring to Tamber Golf.
Sorce of this type of training comes from Mr Kelvin Miyahira, Mr Digby Sale and Vitesse Sport Technology US. Brooks, G.A, Fahey, T.D. & White, T.P. (1996). Exercise Physiology: Human Bioenergetics and Its Applications. (2nd ed.). Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co. Chu, D. (1998). Jumping into plyometrics (2nd ed.). Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, Wikingpedia and Z2 golf. Swedish Golf Academy.
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