The biggest lessons you will ever learn will come when you are right on the edge of failure and close to quitting.
Take Tuesday night as an example, whilst rolling in Jiu-jitsu with a guy who is bigger then me, stronger then me and more powerful then me, I was in a position where it felt like I was being crushed.
The idea is to get onto your side, which I did and should have been in a good position.
But it still felt like getting crushed.
I couldn't breath, as it felt like all his weight was focused only on crushing my chest and I couldn't move.
For what felt like ages but was probably only a few seconds, I couldn't breath, and tapped out.
Asking my professor what happened, his answer was
"I was surprised you tapped then"
So it was just panic.
years ago I would probably have beat myself up for it , being a coward, weak, whatever....
But there is always lessons to be learnt.
So when it got to Thursday after training I wanted to get into the same position and just wait it out.
This time no problem, dont get me wrong it wasn't nice, and was extremely uncomfortable but two things were different.
1) Had an expert show me how to survive and correct it,
2) Understand that true growth is right on the edge of failure.
You see true learning comes when things are tough to do and you need to endure it to learn the movment.
The reason why most golfers suffer with fitness is they think they need to be in the gym doing heavy squats,
Because thats what Rory Mcilroy is doing, or running for hours per day because everyone's reading "Cant Hurt Me" (great book by the way).
But all golfers need to do is exercise a simple movement right on the edge of failure, If its too difficult they will compensate and lose the point of the exercise.
If its too easy they are wasting their time and not getting better.
If the body cant breath comfortably in a certain position then it doesn't truly OWN that position and will stop moving into that position…
If you dont move it you lose it.
So you can pretend that you can make a good turn when you swing the club, but if you cant get into that position comfortably you will have to compensate something.
And that effects your balance, timing and of course confidence.
Be right on the edge of failure and get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
To see the exact areas of your body that are causing you to compensate in your golf swing then,
Go here
John Seton