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What's up, guys? I'm here with my co-host of the Birdie Juice Podcast, Cassandra Meyer.
We're here at the new PXG location in Dallas, Texas.
Really excited to talk to you guys today about one of our passions – fitness.
Yeah. Fitness and golf. So, we had a little long drive competition yesterday.
I was dead set I could get the ball speed up over
over 120. I didn't. I called that.
Yeah, Cass called it in the car. "No way you're getting 120."
He started out at 101, 102. Yeah. We got him up to ...
what did we get up to? 112? 113? I peaked at 115. So, I peaked yesterday
at 115, but
I got 305 yardage, like total yardage.
I thought it was 310.
I was 311. She got me by a yard. But what I took from that was, I got to work
on my fitness a little more. I got to work on my specific golf long drive fitness.
Sequencing. There's a lot of stuff I need to work on.
But talking about fitness a little bit, I got to get my clubhead speed up. You actually
train for golf and for swing speed and for power. So, what does that look like
for you? Because I don't. I just do CrossFit for vanity reasons.
What's your fitness routine look like?
Yeah, so, fitness has always been a big part of my life. My mom was always
very into fitness, so I grew up watching her work out
and just be a really strong woman. So, it was always an
inspiration to me to ...
I don't know, I was just the weird little kid that wanted a six pack.
I would go to bed and I would do 100 sit-ups before I went to
sleep, at 10 years old. Yeah. That was just what I wanted.
And obviously, I had a really good
role model in my mom, so it's been a part of my life for a long time. But like
you, I started out training just to be strong and for
aesthetic reasons or whatever. I just like doing the gym. I like
lifting weights. But I didn't necessarily start training for
performance until much later, actually only like a couple years ago. When I
started making the transition into long drive
and I realized how important it was for proper sequencing and ground-up power.
So, I started learning a little bit more about performance training. Yeah.
It's been an interesting transition for me, but I realized how important it
is to ... I just never really was into golf training.
Some of it was,
I don't know, maybe a little lame. It started to
sort of progress into training more athletically now in the last couple of years.
Oh, for sure. But golf training in the past was more
balance and mobility and stability but not a lot of strength or
power training. Right. And I love the direction that it's been going the last
couple of years. And obviously, we have a lot of the guys on Tour that
Are making those changes. We have them to thank. But I'm just super
pumped for the direction of fitness. And PXG is one of those
brands, I think, that is putting some effort into bridging the gap
between golf and fitness. Well, with PXG's relationship with the godfather of golf and
fitness – Gary Player – it's a natural fit. He was way
ahead of his time. Yeah, very much so. I think there are
photos of him and Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus
walking the course and those guys are smoking cigarettes and drinking Coca Colas
and Gary Player is off the side doing sit-ups and pushups. Yeah.
Entirely different ball game and how he's changed the game
of golf and golf and fitness. But
like you said, it's become more athletic training. When I was growing up,
if you listen to the podcast, heard my story, or if you follow us on Instagram,
you know I played a lot of sports like football, baseball basketball, soccer, golf,
surfing. I was in the gym for a lot of those,
especially with football and baseball. We had weight lifting we had to do. And I
remember when I played golf in high school, my golf coach got mad at our
whole team because we all wanted to lift weights. And he kept saying, "Lifting weights is
going to ruin your golf swing. It's going to ruin your golf game." That's been an
old trope that I think in recent years is starting to change.
You have guys like Wyndham Clark, you have guys that are training for golf, they're
lifting weights, they're doing explosive movements that you haven't
seen in the past. Which it's strange that that was always
the thought process behind golf because it's a rotational sport and
it really requires a lot of power and ground force. So, it's strange
that it took so long for people to figure out that training more like a
baseball player trains or a hockey player trains,
it does transfer onto the course and into your swing speed and your
stability. Yeah. And I think that old trope comes from
doing traditional bodybuilding – you go to the gym, you're going to spot, you're
going to bench, you're going to do curls and you're going to get bulky.
And being bulky typically leads to less mobility, less mobility typically leads
to shorter muscles and harder to rotate and that sort of thing.
But if you're training properly, if you're doing the right things
like Cass is talking about – rotational training,
dynamic training,
Yeah, more dynamic. Anything that helps with your sequencing.
And you know, it's not necessarily just for power purposes, but if you have
proper sequencing, your actual swing plane will improve
without even trying, without getting a lesson. Yeah. So, there's so many
important aspects of it that transfer onto the golf course
if you're training properly. Yeah. And what I was gonna say is that
happened to me yesterday without even trying. I've been working on
my swing a lot, working on the mechanics because I fight a natural over-the-top
move instance. I just fight the natural.
My hips don't rotate properly. But when I started to try to swing really, really,
really hard or I try to go after the ball on our long drive
competition, everything got better. The sequencing got
better, my hips started to clear more, and I think it's because I've been an
athlete my whole life and my body just clicked in like,
"All right, well, this is how you need to do this. This is how you need to hit the ball."
Well, it's instinctual for you if you've been an athlete. You've played so many
different sports. If you just get yourself moving a little bit more
athletically,
your body started moving a little bit more
dynamically instead of you being caught up in your swing thoughts.
And you were taking that slow back swing and it
just wasn't dynamic, it wasn't athletic. So when you were trying to just swing as
hard as you could, all of a sudden your natural instincts from just being an
athlete took over and you started moving more dynamically.
And that actually, in turn, helped his club face without him even thinking about it.
So what you're saying is, I have a future in long drive?
I mean, if you can somehow find another 100 yards, then yeah. We'll see you out there.
We'll see what we can do in the training Here at PXG Dallas. Maybe I could find at least
another 20.
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