 Our next caller is Eric from California. What's up, Eric? How can we help you? Hey, what's going on guys? How you guys doing good? Good. We're in California. Are you? I'm actually in San Rafael in the North Bay. Oh, not far from us at all. Yeah How can we help you buddy? Love the content guys. I really do appreciate you guys have me on the show So to give a little background I played collegiate golf from 2015 to 2019 And I was going through a lot of personal issues back then which we made or you turned to food and alcohol to Kind of fill the void. I went into freshman year at five seven one fifty To two hundred pounds by the end of my sophomore year. Whoo We had a trainer and we did strength training workouts with the team But I kind of just ate so much and drank so much that I just gained a bunch of body fat And I wasn't really going through the workouts with intensity either I was just kind of going through the movement so that I didn't get kicked off the team I was able to get past my personal issues and really started to get into resistance training by the end of my junior year And my buddy Gavin being actually turned me on to you guys and I was able to get down to a healthy 158 Lately I've been training more for aesthetics doing more of a push full leg split five to six days a week For no more than an hour a day I don't do any other specific cardio other than walking and I roughly get around 10,000 steps a day And currently on a bulk eating around 2800 to 3000 calories a day So for my main question now that I've gotten down to a body that I'm happy with I'm just focusing on getting stronger and Although I'm definitely improving in my lifts. It's not necessarily translating to more distance on the golf course If anything, I'm hitting the ball shorter now compared to when I was fat and had little snow muscle So what are some specific exercises or mobility movements that I can do to gain more distance on the golf course? Yeah, that's very common. Yeah, great question. So here's a deal. Okay. I'm probably stronger than most golf golfers and I can't hit the strongest Sorry, we couldn't help it Stop speaking so much Check this out. I I'm definitely stronger than most golfers I cannot hit not even a tenth of the distance that a golfer can because it's technique Yeah, it's skill and technique so gaining strength in the gym isn't gonna translate if your technique is now thrown off because you're not You're not getting them to connect. You're not working with them together Especially golf technique is number one Now if you want to do movements to improve upon your technique a lot of it's gonna be rotational a lot of It's gonna be mobility based It's not gonna be bench presses and deadlifts and squats. Those are good for general health and strength But then if your goal is to hit the ball further I would focus more on skill and technique and then maybe focus on rotation and focus on Increasing a range of motion and connection to more rotation something like, you know windmills and and you know looking into Getting that thoracic rotation and just being able to be more fluid with your body because of the focus being on Strength for a while and not really emphasizing, you know skill and the technique that you had in place previous to that Just getting back into that mentality and allowing, you know, your shoulders to be more loose and free in mobile Along with your hips and kind of work your way down the joints and then put a lot more emphasis on You know freeing up your body to be able to move fast and loose. I mean something's got to give here You're not just a regular golfer You you're a high-level golfer which was probably playing a lot more golf than what you're probably currently playing right now Yeah, you're lifting weights five or six days a week. How many days a week are you proud? Are you golfing and practicing your skill and technique? Probably like one to two days a week. Well, there's your answer. I mean that means so six days You're getting great results. I mean your strength is going up You've built the body that you want you still want to get some more strength So you've just you've completely went from the guy who wasn't even strength training really much at all or just kind of Going through the motions and playing a ton of golf to now also in building a physique that you like the way not only the way It looks and performs and then also thinking that you're going to keep up the same level of and and someone like you is going To see more discrepancy than the average person an average guy like myself who golfs every once in a while or like my buddies Who golf once every other week they might not see that much of a discrepancy in this But you were at such a high level with the sport that this makes a huge difference especially since you're you're getting bulkier and stronger building more muscle and Practicing the skill a lot less. So it's something's got to give here. You've got to be either one Okay with probably losing a little bit of the golf skill and and and seen that slide back as you continue to build Strength and to get stronger and to look better or you go man I'm going to scale back a little bit of this Strength training and I'm going to introduce more skill training back into golf or more days of golf every week And then so I can improve that to be to be clear the resistance training is not why you're losing your distance It sounds like the lack of practice of golf. Okay, so it's not the strength training It's because you're you're golfing once or twice a week now if you want to really do well with golf Then I would flip that I'd go resistance training once or twice a week in golf every single day and then watch what happens Or just keep doing what you're doing and be okay with the fact that you're you're not gonna golf is good But you'll look good, you know which by the way and we just had a question earlier today that was related to this that Don't be surprised you could actually still get stronger and only train once or twice a week in the gym Yep, so if you really want to get better at that at your golf game again Do exactly what Sal saying get back to playing four or five times a week and Strength train full body one or two times a week And then like a very like a match adding those kin stretches I'm telling you man to be able to ramp up that and generate more force You know out of those those hips be able to transfer that up You know in through your entire body and really connect, you know from fingertips to toes You know, you're gonna reconnect and have more of that Athleticism back Eric. Are you following maps performance? No, that's that's the program you got it. Yeah, that's the routine. So Doug Doug will send that over to you So Doug will send maps performance over to you. Appreciate that. That's the foundation that but again I would mold it and shape it more specific for you since the mobility exercises are general like the guys are saying I would do more rotational type things that are going to Translate over into golf for my mobility stuff I would also scale back on the amount of days based off of I want to see more more progress in golf Or I would leave it the way it is if I care more about building strength and muscle How many days a week were you golfing when you were competing in golf in college? Oh Yeah, we were playing every single day So I'm literally I'm gonna I'm gonna read I'm gonna give you a very straight answer Okay, whatever you want to get better at do that the most so that's it bottom line Essentially what you're asking is hey, I used to golf every day now I golf once a week and I can't hit the ball as well and now now the answer is quite obvious, isn't it? Yeah, right cool. All right, we'll send you over maps performance. We appreciate the call Well, thanks for answering my question guys. I really appreciate you guys. You got no problem That's it's so it's so funny to me I get it because people, you know They want to do two things at one time and they don't connect the two But if you did if you were at a high level doing something five days a week You move it down to one day a week. Are you gonna see a decrease in your performance? Especially if you're at a high level, of course, yeah, of course you are it's the it's the numb your practice It's the number one thing we get. Yeah, I mean, this is the same question worded a different way Oh, yeah, I mean every week we have this I have this goal in this goal I want them both. Yeah. Well, how do I do it? And it's you know with especially when they are so different, you know It's not There's not a lot that he's gonna marathons, but I want to be a bodybuilder. Yeah, so Some cool gotta get and it doesn't mean that you can't be kind of a buff guy that can run You know I'm saying but it's not gonna be your peak at either that's right You're not gonna be the best version of yourself at running and I'll be the best version and the same thing with him He's not gonna be the best golfer and also the buffest he's ever been it's just he's now focused his adaptation in that direction So it's was and by the way, this is how resistance training gets a bad rap is that people will do this think it's bad Yeah, and then they're like oh my gosh, you know, I'm not as flexible as I used to be taken away from their skills Yeah, it must be the strength Frank's like no you used to stretch every day and now it's one that's one day a week That's why your flexibility is going down Not only that but you have to integrate the strength and muscle into your skill You know look I'll tell you what if you're watching this right now I slapped 20 pounds of muscle on your body with strength Your skill and technique for whatever you're highly skilled at would decrease because you have a new body You're not used to this 20 pound to heavier body that you're moving around you have your integrate that you're not practicing with it That's what I'm saying You got to integrate the two so whatever you want to be the best at that's what you do the most That's just very simple answer with that