Upper body movements.

It is absolutely vital that once you pull the elbows close together you must then make the chest, the shoulders and the upper back muscles in a very firm condition, thus forming the upper body unit into a very compact unit,.
The unit must be held in this very compact condition throughout the complete golf swing movement especially as the club head swings through the contact area.

It will feel very strange at first to perform the golf swing movement whilst the upper body unit is held in this very compact condition and the hips are stopped from swaying, but persevere and you will reap the benefits.

I cannot stress too strongly how firmly together the upper body unit must be held as you perform the golf swing.

I have made a video which shows two exercises.
These two exercises will train you to perform the correct rotational movement of the compact upper body unit but is vital that these two exercised are practised whilst keeping the lower part of the body in a static condition during the back swing movement.
( The way to increase the rotational movement of the upper body unit during the back swing movement whilst the lower part of the body totally resists the upper body movement, is to learn to twist the upper torso. )

You will notice from this video that it is possible to twist the torso to quite a high degree before the hips are forced to follow the movement of the upper body unit.

Therefore because this action creates a situation where the muscles of the upper torso are stretched to their maximum, if you can perform this action during the golf swing movement it will inject additional muscle torsion into the golf swing movement.

(When performing the down swing movement and the follow through movement the hips must remain in total control at all times thus forcing the passive but very compact upper body unit to follow the movement of the hips.)

The first exercise shown in the video is performed by holding a golf club with the butt end held into your stomach whilst the arms are stretch as far as possible down the shaft.

Therefore whilst holding the golf club in this manner, simply rotate the compact upper body back and forth as far as possible both ways whilst continuing to grip the club very firmly and also maintaining the triangular shape of the upper body unit.

This action simulates the correct way the upper body should held together as it rotates back and forth but especially as the compact upper body unit rotates through the contact area.
Transfer the feeling that you acquire when you perform this practice movement to the real golf swing - you will be amazed at the results.
(I had it on good authority that some of the top pros practice this movement for hours on end to ensure that the action of holding the upper body as a one piece unit right through the contact area remains embedded into the conscious mind.)

The second swing exercise is basically a baseball swing, this teaches you to use the movement of the hips to initiate and control the upper body unit during the down swing/follow through movement.

Both are good exercises to carry out before you attempt to perform a full golf swing.

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