Increase Golf Swing Speed and Balance Drill

Today we are going to be discussing posting up. What that actually means, and how to use your lead leg properly in your golf swing to achieve better balance and swing speed, and more importantly, be able to protect the critical joints of your body like your hip and your knee.

                Now what we want to do today is define what that word posting up means, and I’m also going to show you a simple drill that’s going to help you use that lead leg perfectly in every single swing that you make. I know a lot of us get anxious at home when we have to sit through seven, eight, or 10 minutes worth of information, but I promise you — just sit through it, understand it. We have to understand conceptually what we’re trying to accomplish first, and then start to put the drill to use, and then you’ll start to get the results from it.

                So let’s go ahead and define what posting up means first. Posting up simply put, is after you’ve shifted your weight over to your lead side. So once you’ve shifted your weight to your lead leg, posting up is just going to be pushing your heel into the ground and clearing your hip at the same time. This is working your lead leg into a fairly straight position — we consider it a passive straight position. So when you shift to the lead side, you’re posting up, you’re clearing your hip. That’s what posting up really is.

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                The muscle groups that are really critical for this movement are your glutes — your lead side glutes — and your obliques. Your obliques are responsible for rotating your hips and your glutes are responsible for stabilizing your pelvis. Elite players have talked about how their glutes didn’t fire and that’s why their hip spun out a little bit — it’s actually a very critical muscle group that does in fact help stabilize your pelvis. So if you’ve had a hard time finding the awareness of your glutes, here’s a simple way to do that: just pick your lead foot up, then stomp out into your proper stance, landing in your heel or ankle joint area. After you land, lift your trail foot up and pump down a little bit.

                You’ll start to feel the medial side of your glute contract quite a bit. Again, pick this foot up, stomp out, pick the trail foot up, and flex up and down a couple of times — you’ll feel those muscles. Those are great muscles, and when you start to shift into that side you’ll want to have some awareness of them to help stabilize your pelvis so you don’t spin out through the hitting area. You want your body to stall essentially. If you want to take your training even further, you can use the GOAT Drill system to track these exact movement patterns with real-time feedback.

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