Back doc's golfer advice

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This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr Stuart McGill when he was asked about golfers. I have one of his books and am

reading it now.

Here is the link to the rest of the interview. http://www.t-nation.com/training/interview-with-dr-stuart-mcgill-part-2

There is a link in the beggining of the article to part 1.

CW: In the first part of this interview you gave us a progression of core exercises that have no, or relatively low, rotational velocity. However, some sports such as golf mandate that movement pattern, even if it's high risk. Once a guy has worked through the progression, which exercise do you recommend to train higher rotational velocity?

SM: If we're talking about a golfer who needs more rotational velocity, I would probably start with the hip airplane. Great golfers are relatively relaxed through the downswing since muscularly generated force also adds stiffness, which slows motion. At ball contact the great ones create a pulse of muscular force throughout the linkage. This originates about the rear hip in external rotation. The "hip airplane" mimics this force.

Then I would progress to training a faster rate of relaxing the muscles to ensure the maintenance of speed in the follow through. I would avoid slow strength training for a golfer.