Gravity weighing on you? Here’s how to use it for posture, sports and how I use it as a coach.
It’s weighing on us during the day, at our desks, during sports and even at night so, what should we do about it? I feel we can use it for a variety of things.
We can use gravity for:
- Assessing whether a posture or position will last for a longer or shorter period of time.
- Figuring out if a coaching tip will work well. Does it respect Gravity or will it likely fail under heavier loads during a sporting movement?
- Does a posture fight Gravity or kind of ride with it?
These are all good questions to ask yourself as a coach, athlete or office worker. Using this filter, you can really see what good and bad position is and is not.
Now as a caveat, sometimes the body will warp under high loads and this doesn’t mean integrity has been lost. It’s just the load is high enough to bend the bar a bit just like you would see in an Olympic Weightlifting event. We’re lifting bars that bend and sometimes as the forces go up, so do we. Hopefully, the forces don’t go to the point that something breaks.
How about we look at an example?
For Instance, The Golf Swing Takeaway
If we look at the starting position under load, it might look like this. It’s no mistake that it’s a really strong position just like the start of a Romanian Dead Lift or RDL.
It would make sense that the club would sit in about the same place at the start. Now, what happens if we start working away from gravity too soon by going “inside” a bit early?
The club begins to travel inside and off the main target line early. We’re now going a bit against gravity.
By halfway up, the club is now in big trouble and there’s likely to be an over the top correction to save it on the way down.
Instead, here’s how it might look staying with gravity a little longer..To see the full article on the Gravity Golf Takeaway, Check This Out:
As for gravity, keep it in mind, it’s an old force but a good one to pay attention to on and off the field. Apply it wherever you can to really get the gravity of things.
Cheers,
Coach James.
