My experience with a weighted club

[jowlar]

Golf is not a spring time sport for me. My kids' little league baseball plus all stars, cheerleading and basketball camps, church camps, etc take up most of my afternoons and many weekends. This year I bought a weighted club to swing a bit between chauffering my kids around and my next golfing opportunity.

I tried to swing it at least 50 times a day, thinking that I was going to be "Bubba Watson" long once I got to play again. Well, I was wrong, after a few weeks with the weighted club I finally got to play a round and my swing was horrible. I have been to the range everyday for 3 weeks and got some sense of my swing back but not nearly what I am accustomed to. The weighted club is now in timeout waiting for my next ebay adventure.

Has anybody had similar experience with the weighted clubs? If so, what faults did you develop? My primary problem was a weak slice and the dreaded el hosel.

I am done with the training aids. And thats all I have to say about that.

[Soup Fan]

My brother in-law loves his weighted club, then again his swing sucks.

[joshtpa]

I actually really like my weighted driver. I dont use it for extra distance, as much as I do to get warmed up for a round. But it does help me loosen up and relax.

[ks8829]

I bought a weighted iron and swung it about 5-10 times and the next day I felt pain in my rib area so I stop using it.

[Craig Mac]

I keep one of the those weighted doughnuts(mmmm...doughnuts), in my bag and only use it for a dozen or so swings to warm up before htting balls. We had a weighted club at work that we use to swing occasionaly just to swing a club. Seemed to help me loosen up a little but I am not sure of what benifts it would have as a "training aid".

[JaY_B]

A weighted club is supposed to force your swing on plane on the down swing (because of the weight).

It is proven that regularly swinging a weighted club slows down your swing as opposed to speeding it up.

[joshtpa]

Can you show me where you read those facts? Im truly am curious.

[JaY_B]

Will just look for them now, originally like you I didn't believe it but it does make sense when you think about it.

[joshtpa]

Will just look for them now, originally like you I didn't believe it but it does make sense when you think about it.

Thanks I am really curious.

[JaY_B]

Atm, I can't find the research, but here is why it makes you swing slower in a very very small nut shell - If you practise swinging slower, your going to swing the club slower.

It is I suppose about how you use the weighted club, using it properly with specific exercises and it could marginally improve your swing speed, however just swinging the club over and over again will cause a loss of swing speed.

Massive apologies for not finding the research.

[Craig Mac]

I could be wrong here but it seems it would almost be as easy to get a weighted club "off" plane as it would a regular club.

[JaY_B]

I could be wrong here but it seems it would almost be as easy to get a weighted club "off" plane as it would a regular club.

I think it would be harder to come over the top or get the club head outside the line on the down swing, the extra weight alone would surely encourage the club on to a much flatter down swing plane.

[Craig Mac]

Atm, I can't find the research, but here is why it makes you swing slower in a very very small nut shell - If you practise swinging slower, your going to swing the club slower.

I thought the principle was to build resistence with the weighted club, hence less resistence when swinging a lighter club thus improving clubhead speed. Then again I am no expert.

[joshtpa]

I thought the principle was to build resistence with the weighted club, hence less resistence when swinging a lighter club thus improving clubhead speed. Then again I am no expert.

That is why I bought the damn thing. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it would slow swing speed down!!!

[JaY_B]

I thought the principle was to build resistence with the weighted club, hence less resistence when swinging a lighter club thus improving clubhead speed. Then again I am no expert.

Thats the theory, but swing a weighted club 10 times at say 50 mph is not going to suddenly encourage a 100 mph swing, it will encourage a 50 mph swing.

[alf174]

I actually really like my weighted driver. I dont use it for extra distance, as much as I do to get warmed up for a round. But it does help me loosen up and relax.

Same here...but I only swing it a few times on days I'm going to play to get loosened up but use it for 10-15 minutes on off days.

[JaY_B]

That is why I bought the damn thing. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it would slow swing speed down!!!

Well yes it will strengthen your golfing muscles, but it's not going to speed them up, to train speed you need to do something fast.

I could get technical, you are encouraging the muscle contractions to occur at a slower rate if you swing a weighted club at a slow/medium swing.

[joshtpa]

That is not true. If you train certain muscles, they grow and strengthen. This brings them more strength, stamina, and speed. Muscle memory brings speed. Why do you think when someone first picks up golf, the swing plane is so slow. Then as their muscles get accustomed to doing that motion, they can swing faster. It has nothing to do with doing something fast to encourage speed. Why do you think runners train with weights on. So get stronger? No, to get faster.