Progress Update: July 6, 2008
Posted by Double Eagle in My Progress
The thing I hate about making swing changes (or fixes) is that it’s such a long, painstaking process to commit the correct moves to muscle memory. In my case, I’m revamping my tempo and making other minor corrections.
After a couple of lessons (and more to come), I’m seeing drastic changes. It just hasn’t translated into lower scores yet.
On the plus side, my quality of contact has drastically improved. I’m making crisp, center contact a much higher percentage of the time. When I’m feeling the correct tempo in my swing, my accuracy is also greatly improved.
One other thing I noticed, that I briefly commented on, is that my release right near impact is much more under control. Before, I would swing very hard and the release of the club just sort of happened and there wasn’t much I could do with it. Now, I feel like I have a lot more feel through impact.
On the downside, that extra control at impact comes at a price - I need to get the timing down. I find that I’m pushing the occasional shot dead right. Others, I’m hooking a bit because I’m shutting down the club face a little.
Also on the down side is that my distance on purely-struck shots is down significantly because of my commitment to a slower tempo. This isn’t something permanent, though. After I feel confident that I’m striking the ball well, I’ll eventually be able to dial it back up a little to regain some of those lost yards. This is something I’ll be working closely with my pro on as the year progresses.
On the workout front, I’ve been experimenting with a new strength training routine. This routine requires that I only do strength training once a week, so I’ve temporarily suspended the 100-pushups challenge. This new workout comes from a book I’ve been reading. I’ll be doing a review in the not-too-distant future and will tell you all about it.
If all goes well, it should be improving my push-up potential, so I’ll be able to resume the challenge after my experiment is over, hopefully without losing too much ground.
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