Should You Play Golf While Working On Your Swing

The number one question that I get more often than anything else isn't about the grip or the swing plane or setup or impact. It is, "Do I have to stop playing while I'm working on my golf swing?" That is a great question and that is exactly what we're going to answer today. Here are the 10 things that you need to think about and understand as you're working on your swing.

So in order, number one, the first is that it takes three to five thousand repetitions to master any motor movement. I've talked about this in great detail in other videos so I won't talk about it in depth here, but the key is understanding that that three to five thousand reps is going to take time. Now, that's to master a movement, and this is key.

When we talk about mastering a golf movement, we're talking about you being very proficient at it and being able to do that same movement over and over again without screwing it up, and more importantly, reverting back to your old movement pattern. So if you've got an inside takeaway and you're working on taking the club back on plane instead of going inside, for you to master that new movement that you're learning, it will take three to five thousand reps before your brain is going to want to always default to that new movement pattern. In between that time, you're going to find yourself learning to rip the club inside still, and that's normal for everyone.

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This is the golden rule of learning. It doesn't mean that this just applies to your golf swing. This applies to everything in life that you're doing that involves a motor movement, and that could be writing your signature. That's a motor movement. That is your brain telling your muscles what to do in what sequence to do and what order to do it in, and that's a movement no different than learning how to play a musical instrument, learning how to drive a manual transmission, learning how to run. All of these things are motor movements that you took time learning at some point in your life if you've mastered those movements. Hopefully we can run, write our signature, feed ourselves without stabbing ourselves in the eye with a fork, but when we first started doing that as a child, we couldn't, so that's the first thing you've got to understand is that this is going to take time.

Even if you did 100 reps every single day, and more importantly getting into number two, you did them absolutely perfectly, because only correct reps count. If you're doing the rep exactly right, that's the only rep you get to count, but if you mess it up, that's not telling your brain the right information. You're just reinforcing your old stuff, but even if you did 100 reps every single day perfectly, that's a whole month to master a movement. Tools like the AI swing analyzer can help you instantly verify whether your reps are actually correct, taking the guesswork out of your practice sessions.

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