Pro Side Fitness

Best thing I've ever learned from a client: drag curls
Keep the bar on your body
Don't flare your elbows
Hands stay below or parallel to elbows
Go slow and fall in love with the burn

Cute little med ball drill to help me get better at planting my right heel and getting more into my right hip. I think coach would be pleased with how it looks.

Right handed golfers who sway and hang back, try this.

Cable/band is low and beside you.
Make the tension heavy enough that you feel the inside of your foot digging into the floor, preventing you from being pulled to the right. This is key (neural).
Rotate at the hips and explode back to start position by contacting your right side butt.
Areas to feel: right foot, right butt, left abs.
During rotation, there's very little load on the left side- the knee is completely safe.

Sort of a forearm supported DNS oblique sit and PRI hip shift hybrid here for those precious lefty golfers who have issues getting into their backswing.

Right knee 'reaches' past left knee to lengthen/inhibit left side butt (negotiating tissue position potential for backswing)
Left forearm pressing into floor to lift abs away
Maintaining right knee reach and ab engagement, left side butt contracts to ER the left leg
Top position is a straight line from lower shoulder to knee
'Sit back' to start position while maintaining abs. This is not oblique twerking. Keep your connection

Heavy(ish) renegade rows are money for inhibiting/relaxing a tight low back.
Make sure it's heavy enough that you can't be sloppy in your shoulders, but not so heavy that your pelvis can't stay 'calm'.
If your right hand is pulling, your left hand is pushing hard and your lower body pressure is shifting to your right foot. Do it a bunch.

I was 100% confident sending a back pain/golf client to my coach to erase his fear of swinging a club.
Listen to the advise, it's perfect.

Clients when you tell them it's time for fake slam walking lunges

Before (Top): paradoxical breathing- chest shouldn't expand during exhalation. His diaphragm is pulling his lungs down, but the diaphragm can't expand the lungs.

Intervention: manually compressing ribcage during exhalation.

After (Bottom): ribcage is expanding the lungs and the diaphragm is pulling his lungs down. Much better quality exchange. Expressed increased sensation of air coming in.

It's not perfect, but it's moving in the right direction. Next step is moving some of the anterior expansion posteriorly via reaching his hands to the ceiling.

Hasn't had any back pain for a while now, so we'll just consider him a regular client instead of a back pain client.

Me during the exercise: nice, feeling fast, feeling quick and snappy.
Me watching the video of the exercise: I will always be slow.

This is the reason I'm always chasing high smash lol. Always been on the slow side.