Our next color is Eric from California. What's up, Eric? How can we help you? Hey, what's going on guys? How you guys doing? Good. Good. We're in California. Are you? I'm actually in Santa Fe, North Bay. Oh, not far from us at all. Yeah. Yeah. How can we help you, buddy? Love the content, guys. I really do appreciate you guys having me on the show. So to give a little background, I played collegiate golf from 2015 to 2019. And I was going through a lot of personal issues back then, which made me turn to food and alcohol to kind of fill a void. I went in a freshman year at five, seven, one, fifty to two hundred pounds by the end of my sophomore year. We had a trainer and we did strength training workouts with the team, but I kind of just ate so much and drank so much that I just gained a bunch of body fat. And I wasn't really going through the workouts with intensity either. I was just kind of going through the movements so that I didn't get kicked off the team. I was able to get past my personal issues and really started getting to resist the training by the end of my junior year. And my buddy Gavin being actually turned me on to you guys and I was able to get down to a healthy one, fifty eight. Lately, I've been training more for aesthetics, doing more of a push full leg split five to six days a week for no more than our day. I don't do any other specific cardio other than walking and I roughly get around 10,000 steps a day and currently on a bulk eating around 2,800 to 3,000 calories a day. So for my main question now that I've gotten down to a body that I'm happy with, I'm just focusing on getting stronger. And although I'm definitely improving in my lifts, it's not necessarily translating to more distance on the golf course. If anything, I'm hitting the ball shorter now compared to when I was fat and had little snow muscle. So what are some specific exercises or mobility movements that I can do to gain more distance on the golf course? Yeah, that's very common. Yeah, great question. So here's a deal. Okay. I'm probably stronger than most golf golfers. And I can't hit the stroke. You still find the strongest person in the room right now. Listen, we can help it. Yeah, listen, stop speaking so much truth. No, so I'll check this out. I'm definitely strong on the most golfers. I cannot hit not even a tenth of the distance that a golfer can because it's technique, it's skill and technique. So gaining strength in the gym isn't going to translate if your technique is now thrown off because you're not, you're not getting them to connect. You're not working with them together. So technically golf technique is number one. Now if you want to do movements to improve upon your technique, a lot of it's going to be rotational, a lot of it's going to be mobility based. It's not going to be bench presses and dead lifts and squats. Those are good for general health and strength. But if your goal is to hit the ball further, I would focus more on skill and technique and then maybe focus on rotation and focus on increasing a range of motion and connection to more rotation. Something like windmills and looking into getting that thoracic rotation and just being able to be more fluid with your body because of the focus being on strength for a while and not really emphasizing skill and the technique that you had in place previous to that. Just getting back into that mentality and allowing your shoulders to be more loose and free in mobile along with your hips and kind of work your way down the joints and put a lot more emphasis on you know, freeing up your body to be able to move fast and loose. I mean, something's got to give here. You're not just a regular golfer. You're a high level golfer, which was probably playing a lot more golf than what you're probably currently playing right now. Yeah, you're lifting weights five or six days a week. How many days a week are you pro are you golfing and practicing your skill and technique? Probably like one to two days a week. Well, there's a answer. I mean, that means in so six days, you're getting great results. I mean, your strength is going up. You've built the body that you want. You still want to get some more strength. So you've just you've completely went from the guy who wasn't even strength training really much at all or just kind of going through the motions and playing a ton of golf to now also building a physique that you like the way not only the way it looks and performs and then also thinking that you're going to keep up the same level of and someone like you is going to see more discrepancy than the average person an average guy like myself who golfs every once in a while or like my buddies who golf once a rather week, they might not see that much of a discrepancy in this, but you were at such a high level with the sport that this makes a huge difference, especially since you're you're getting bulkier and stronger building more muscle and practicing the skill a lot less. So it's something's got to give here. You've got to be either one, okay with probably losing a little bit of the golf skill and and and seeing that slide back as you continue to build strength and to get stronger and to look better or you go man I'm going to scale back a little bit of this strength training and I'm going to introduce more skills training back into golf or more days of golf every week and then so I can improve that. To be to be clear, the resistance training is not why you're losing your distance. It sounds like it's the lack of practice of golf. Okay so it's not the strength training it's because you're you're golfing once or twice a week. Now if you want to really do well with golf then I would flip that. I'd go resistance training once or twice a week in golf every single day and then watch what happens or just keep doing what you're doing and be okay with the fact that you're you're not going to golf is good but you'll look good you know which by the way and we we just had a question earlier today that was related to this that you don't be surprised you could actually still get stronger and only train once or twice a week in the gym. Yep. So if you really want to get better at that at your golf game again do exactly what Salis saying get back to playing four or five times a week and strength train full body one or two times a week and then like a very like a match. Adding those kin stretches on telling you man to be able to ramp up that and generate more force you know out of those those hips be able to transfer that up you know in through your entire body and really connect you know from fingertips to toes you know you're going to reconnect and and have more of that athleticism back. Eric are you following maps performance? No that's that's the program you got it yeah that's the routine so Doug Doug will send that over to you so Doug will send maps performance over to you. Appreciate that. That's the foundation that I but again I would mold it and and shape it more specific for you since the mobility exercises are general like the guys are saying I would do more rotational type things that are going to translate over into golf for my mobility stuff I would also scale back on the amount of days based off if I want to see more more progress in golf or I would leave it the way it is if I care more about building strength and muscle. How many how many of these a week were you golfing when you were competing in golf in college? Oh yeah we were playing every single day about five to six days so I'm literally I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a very straight answer okay whatever you want to get better at do that the most so that's it bottom line so that's the formula essentially what you're asking is hey I used to golf every day now I golf once a week and I can't hit the ball as well now now the answer is quite obvious isn't it yeah right cool all right well we'll send you over maps performance we appreciate the call well thanks for answering my question guys I really appreciate you guys you got no problem that's it's so it's so funny to me I get it because people you know they want to do two things at one time and they don't connect the two but if you did if you were at a high level doing something five days a week you move it down to one day a week or are you gonna see a decrease in your performance especially if you're at a high level of course of course it's the it's the it's the number of practice it's the number one thing we get yeah I mean this is the same question worded a different way oh yeah I mean every week we have this I have this goal in this goal I want them both yeah well how do I do it and it's you know when especially when they are so different you know it's not there's not a lot that he's gonna marathon but I want to be a bodybuilder yeah so just some cool guy to get does and it doesn't mean that you can't be kind of a buff guy that can run you know I'm saying but you're not gonna be your peak at either that's right you're not gonna be the best version of yourself at running and I'm gonna be the best version and the same thing with him he's not gonna be the best golfer and also the buffest he's ever been it's just he's now focused his adaptation in that direction so it's was gonna get by the way this is how resistance training gets a bad rap is that people will do this is bad yeah and then they're like oh my gosh you know I'm not as flexible as I used to be taking away from their skills yeah it must be the strength strength like no you used to stretch every day and now it's one day a week and that's why your flexibility is going down not only that but you have to integrate the strength and muscle into your skill you know look I'll tell you what if you're watching this right now and I slapped 20 pounds of muscle on your body with strength your skill and technique for whatever you're highly skilled at that would decrease because you have a new body you're not used to this 20 pound to have your body that you're moving around you have to integrate the two and you're not practicing with it too that's what I'm saying right you got to integrate the two so whatever you want to be the best at that's what you do the most that's just very simple answer with that