[Vickie]

Hi Matt, I still believe that the primary responsibility of fitness is to create a sound foundation upon which to apply your golf principles. Creating a positive posture allows your body to realign itself between every shot. This allows for recovery which leads to bringing the same powerful alignment to the next shot.

I think the specific training protocols between hitters and swingers wind up being specific to technique training and often body type. Slow twitch and Fast twitch muscle fiber orchestration are critical factors in the type of action a person can create. Without realizing it, this is often the precursor to someone choosing their specific swing style. Speed requires power, nobody has bigger legs than sprinters who need explosive speed right out of the gate. it is the force that propells them forward explosively, to state the obvious. I tend to be a better long distance runner strictly because of my muscular design. I never thought about it, in the beginning, but just intuitively experienced the best type of style of running for my 'satisfaction'.

A swinger's main challenge is in controlling centrifugal force which requires training that precision in repetitively to a degree that is not as critical to the hitter. With that said, a golf specific program that should be implimented and would be different between hitter's and swingers. But I think this must be done with golf club in hand, weighted or not.

The concerns with rotation of the spine within the golf stance may require even more focus of postural importance on the swinger than on the hitter specifically because of the nature of centrifugal force. But with every player the best success will come with management of balance and force and then the ability of the body to realign and recouperate between shots.

Don't know if this is satisfactory. I absolutely feel like I am missing a point I want to make. I will get in the little yellow book this weekend and try to be more specific. I know everyone is looking for THE answer but the fact is that (as per 1-2) "a structure must not be loaded beyond the strength of its materials".

It's a start anyway. Vickie