Golf - What causes slumps and how can we avoid them?
To execute a golf swing, your body uses hundreds of different muscles of varying sizes and shapes, all trying to work together at the same time. Every day, each one of these muscles gets stronger or weaker, bigger or smaller, depending on how you use them in your daily activities.
…On any given day, some of these muscles will have a greater or lesser effect on your swing without you realizing it. Trying to make all these muscles work together with precise timing and direction is like asking a bunch of school kids to behave.
…Nobody can ever avoid slumps entirely, everybody gets them, but you can reduce their frequency and their severity by adopting a daily exercise routine to strengthen certain muscles, and to induce “motor muscle memory”. You have to train your swing muscles to behave in a consistent manner.
…Consider the right handed golf pros who know all the right moves. Does that mean they should be able to play the game just as well left handed? Why not, they know all the right moves, don’t they?
…Knowing the right moves is not enough, you have to practice them in order to execute them consistently.
The more you practice the right moves, the better you get. This goes for everything in life, not just golf.
…While inducing motor muscle memory, make sure you are training you muscles with the CORRECT moves, because if you induce incorrect moves, they will be much harder to “undo” once your muscles are trained to behave that way.
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