Muscles can be classified as either Tonic or Phasic, Tonic muscles become short and tight, Phasic muscles long and weak, thus creating imbalance in the structure of the body and therefore the golf swing. Now as we all know if we were to go to the gym, lift weights with the goal of strengthening a muscle, that muscle would become, bigger, shorter and tighter therefore the brain/nervous system has a greater connection to such muscles more so than those that are under used (Phasic muscles).
So how does this effect the golf swing? You set up to hit a drive down the centre of the fairway, you have taken a practice swing and everything feels great, step over the ball and a whole new feeling takes over and you miss the fairway, why, why why? Here's the reason, the brain sends nerve impulses carrying a message to the muscles of the body for the specific movement pattern of the drive from the tee, but remember the muscles that are stronger have a greater connection to the brain therefore robbing the information from the nerves, tonic muscles have a lower resistance to this stimulus allowing them to take over the work of the Phasic muscles therefore creating a golf swing that is bias to hit the ball to the left or the right.
So unless a screening of the body is undertaken (and we are not talking about a TPI screening here, yawn), one cannot know how to distribute the brains information evenly, and remember once the golf swing is in motion the tonic muscles will always try to take control of the motion, something that is hard to control at speed and under pressure. How many people go away thinking they have to change technique, swing path, clubface alignment? the list goes on, maybe the real answer has been there all along, rebalance the bodies electrical flow, learn to control the nervous system and the game becomes easier. Stay tuned and find out how this can be achieved in Part 3.
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