How To Drive The Ball Farther

[CoolBreeze20]

Lolzz, I think you have your work out routines backwards. "Body builders" or people looking to add MASS, use heavy weights and low repititions. People seeking to get fit, or just have the "cut" appearance, use lower weights and many repititions.

[JaY_B]

Lolzz, I think you have your work out routines backwards. "Body builders" or people looking to add MASS, use heavy weights and low repititions. People seeking to get fit, or just have the "cut" appearance, use lower weights and many repititions.

He's right

[lolzzlolzz]

Strength training is with high weight and low repetitions, 5 or less.

Bodybuilders use higher reps, like 8-12 as it adds mass more than it builds strength.

Low weight and high rep is what people who don't get any results do. You "cut up" your muscles by having low body fat + strong muscles, which you train with high weight. 99.9% of people training in any gym (including the ones with personal trainers) are doing everything wrong.

[JackieTreehorn]

Low reps with heavy weight adds size...many reps at med weight builds density.

At some point building too much size or weight may be detrimental to a golf swing because you may lose flexibility and your arms get heavy! But I would think you need to be more jacked up than Tiger for this onset. He's pretty jacked up (though I doubt he benches 350 like Dan Hicks exaggerated). So up to a point (which probably depends on your swing tempo), I think weightlifting helps.

[lolzzlolzz]

Your size is decided by your food intake, really. A caloric surplus will make you gain weight. Even if you do bodybuilding style training you wont get bigger without eating a lot of food.

If you eat the same amount of calories as you burn each day, you will not gain weight whether you do strength training or bodybuilding. You will only gain strength. Still, strength training is better because you become stronger with it than bodybuilding routines.

Strength training and bodybuilding does not impair flexibility, it helps and maintains it.

But we really shouldn't bother mentioning bodybuilding on these forums anyways. Anyone who tries one of these routines will end up losing distance in the long run. Strength and power training, however, will help.

If you're skinny (ideal weight for someone 6 feet tall should be about 180, you can work it out from there), then you should combine strength training with caloric surplus. Eat 6 times a day, 4500+ calories. This is what Tiger did.

Get some skinny underweight, 6 feet tall at 155 lbs who can drive it 240 yards, then let him get to 180 lbs at the same bodyfat%, and I can almost guarantee he'll be driving it in the 300's range (assuming his swing isn't too bad).


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that said, technique is the most important thing for gaining distance, then strength.

[ks8829]

Pilates help me become more flexible and therefore I am turning better thus hitting the ball farther naturally.

[Uthinkso]

To me its mechanics/form. I play with a friend of mine that I am much stronger than, but he has great mechanics. He out drives me 10 times out of 10 without fail. When he gets me to swing slower I actually hit it straighter and further. I also notice that my slice reduces dramatically when I slow the club down. Moral of the story for me is a well executed controlled swing makes me hit the ball further.